Ampleharvestorg Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

During the year, ampleharvest.org inc. Has continued to utilize the internet to enable 62 million americans who grow food in home/community gardens to easily donate their excess harvest to one of 7,999 registered local food pantries spread across all 50 states. These food pantries help nourish the one out of six americans (including a quarter of all kids under six) that rely on these pantries. Ampleharvest.org inc.'s two tiered approach is to both educate and encourage owners to donate the food (i.e. And ignore the "jars, cans, boxes" restriction of the past) while making america's food pantries/soup kitchens "visible" to the growers for the first time by enabling them to register in ampleharvest.org inc.'s online registry. Once the grower who has an overly abundant harvest learns that they can donate the food and once they then locate a nearby food pantry on ampleharvest.org inc., a connection is made and they donate the food themselves on a date/time that is requested by the pantry. The just-in-time logic in the program eliminates the need for the pantry to refrigerate or store the food, and it is typically taken home by the food pantry clients within hours of being harvested. As a result, the food they get is fresher than what most of us can buy at a supermarket. Lastly, this becomes the start of a lifelong relationship between the grower and the pantry. The quality of the food at the pantry is improved, their costs go down, the carbon foot print of the food is reduced, the waste stream is diminished and the loss of food in america is reduced - all at no cost to the donor or the food pantry.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
• Program expense ratio: 69.5%; rating input score 69
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -13.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 25.5%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings