Gluten Intolerance Group of North America

Analysis

Gluten Intolerance Group of North America is a registered charity in United States, based in Olympia, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1991, 35 years ago. 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, Gluten Intolerance Group of North America reported income of $5.7m and spending of $5.4m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $4.5m to $5.7m (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Gluten Intolerance Group of North America sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 94th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Arthur Page Society ($5.7m), American Society of Plant Biologists ($5.7m) and United Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut Inc ($5.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.6% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $545k (10% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $495k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 39 employees.