Feeding San Diego
Overview
Mission
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. Through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families, and seniors in need.
What it reported doing in 2024
Feeding san diego serves people facing hunger through multiple programs, each focusing on a distinct population, to support an overarching vision of a hunger-free and healthy san diego.feeding families initiative: feeding san diego provides healthy meals to families across the county through direct-to-client distributions and partner agencies who operate their own soup kitchens, food pantries, and hunger-relief programs.feeding kids initiative: feeding san diego serves children, youth, and their families facing hunger through a variety of distributions at their schools, afterschool activities, and summer programs.feeding heroes initiative: feeding san diego provides nutritious food to active-duty military and veteran households facing hunger through community partner distributions and direct-to-client programs.feeding seniors initiative: feeding san diego serves seniors through distributions at direct service sites, senior-housing complexes, and partner agencies.in addition to direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego operates a variety of outreach programs to help vulnerable people facing hunger to access food assistance and public benefits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 86% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260457477
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8684523663
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 90.7%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.8% of revenue deployed · 90.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $77.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $259K · 17 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $985K reported
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT KAMENSKY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $258,744 total reported compensation
- PATTY O'CONNOR (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $209,336 total reported compensation
- FENDY WOGU (FINANCE CONTROLLER (LEFT 3/2025)): $170,193 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.