Feeding the Valley Inc
Overview
Mission
Feeding the Valleys mission is to empower our neighbors to overcome hunger by ensuring access to food.
What it reported doing in 2024
Food distribution to the needy. The food bank distributes food to qualified organizations that feed the needy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581498131
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Columbus, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7065614755
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $87.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.