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

The pie chart shows the amount of money that a children's charity located in the USA spent and received in one year, 2016.
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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Vocabulary: Replace the words revenue, income with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "amount" in your introduction.
Vocabulary: Only 5 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • donations
  • grants
  • fundraising events
  • expenditure
  • administration costs
  • program expenses
  • direct benefits
  • indirect benefits
  • underprivileged children
  • education
  • healthcare
  • shelter
  • nourishment
  • medical treatments
  • basic needs
  • financial sustainability
  • transparency
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