Fruit and Flower Day Nursery of Portland

Analysis

Fruit and Flower Day Nursery of Portland is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1953, 73 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, 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 June 2023, Fruit and Flower Day Nursery of Portland reported income of $4.6m and spending of $4.2m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $2.3m to $4.6m (+98%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Fruit and Flower Day Nursery of Portland sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Area Agency on Aging Region X ($4.6m), Building People Power ($4.6m) and Dawn Center for Independent Living Inc ($4.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 21% and program service revenue 77% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $164k (3.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.7m. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $330k, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 101 employees.