Bethel Area Food Shelf Co
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933206748
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bethel, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8022345513
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,877
- Expenses
- $72,662
- Assets
- $60,450
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cindy Metcalf (President)
- Alyssa Levy (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Cindy Metcalf (President)
- Alyssa Levy (Vice President)
- Lisa Warhol (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community Food Shelf for Town of Bethel and Surounding area.
What it reported doing in 2024
Everyday Support: The Bethel Area Food Shelf (BAFS) is 100% Volnteer led, Funded by grants from charitable organizations and the generosity of individual donors working to alleviate food insecurity in our community. The BAFS served 277 unique households (740 people) with food and household supplies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -23.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 69.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.1% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $69K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.