Bethlehem Community Dinner
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 365138492
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bethlehem, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6039919600
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Soup Kitchens
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,877
- Expenses
- $27,010
- Assets
- $54,980
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nancy Strand (President)
- Stephen Dignazio (Vice President)
- Jane Storella (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Nancy Strand (President)
- Stephen Dignazio (Vice President)
- Andrea Knowles (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TO NOURISH OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH SHARED MEALS, FOSTERING CONNECTIONS, UNDERSTANDING, AND A SENSE OF BELONGING IN A WELCOMING, CLEAN AND SAFE SPACE PROVIDING ACCESSIBLE, NOURISHING MEALS, REDUCING FOOD INSECURITY, AND FOSTERING SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIPS. To offer hope and support through warm meals, building a stronger community, one plate at a time. Vision: We stay committed to promoting sustainable and ethical food practices, sourcing local produce, reducing food waste, and supporting small scale farmers at both the Community Dinner and Food Pantry.
What it reported doing in 2025
We took ownership and operation of the Bethlehem Food Pantry in October. We continue to grow our intergenerational crew of volunteers from middle school students to retirees. We served items to 35 households per month.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.4%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 58.7%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.2%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.04; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.4% of revenue deployed · 58.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.