Ashland Emergency Food Bank

Analysis

Ashland Emergency Food Bank is a registered charity in United States, based in Ashland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2002, 24 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, Ashland Emergency Food Bank reported income of $455k and spending of $462k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $228k to $455k (+100%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 380%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Ashland Emergency Food Bank sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Hill Development Corporation ($455k), Bethel Community Storehouse ($455k) and Our Community Hunger Center Inc ($455k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $67k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $58k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $5,073, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 4 employees.