Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels

Analysis

Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels is a registered charity in United States, based in Spokane Vly, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.2m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.0m to $2.3m (+14%), an average of +3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Council on Aging of Buncombe County Inc ($2.3m), Rise Up Industries ($2.3m) and Stark County Hunger Task Force Inc ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $101k (4.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $858k. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $183k, net assets of $2.2m. It reported 40 employees.