Linn Benton Food Share

Analysis

Linn Benton Food Share is a registered charity in United States, based in Corvallis, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1996, 30 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Linn Benton Food Share reported income of $8.5m and spending of $7.9m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $8.0m to $8.5m (+6.2%), an average of +1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Linn Benton Food Share sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon ($8.5m), Grace Klein Community Inc ($8.5m) and Womens Center & Shelter of Greater PGH ($8.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% and program service revenue 2.8% of the total. At year end it held assets of $6.8m against liabilities of $399k, net assets of $6.4m.