The pie chart shows the amount of money that a children's charity located in the USA spent and received in one year, 2016. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie chart shows the amount of money that a children's charity located in the USA spent and received in one year, 2016.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie charts show the amount of
revenue
and expenditures in 2016 for a children’s charity in the USA.
Overall
, it can be seen that donated food accounted for the majority of the
income
,
while
program services accounted for the most expenditure. Total
revenue
sources just exceeded outgoings. In detail, donated food provided most of the
revenue
for the charity, at 86%.
Similarly
, with regard to expenditures, one category, program services, accounted for nearly all of the outgoings, at 95.8%. The other categories were much smaller. Community contributions, which were the
second
largest
revenue
source, brought in 10.4% of
overall
income
, and
this
was followed by program
revenue
, at 2.2%. Investment
income
, government grants, and other
income
were very small sources of
revenue
, accounting for only 0.8% combined. There were only two other expenditure items, fundraising and management and general, accounting for 2.6% and 1.6% respectively. The total amount of
income
was $53,561,580, which was just enough to cover the expenditures of $53,224,896.
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