The Hunger Coalition

What it reported doing in 2024

The following represents a reporting of accomplishments achieved from july 1, 2024 to june 30, 2025. The lingering impacts of high inflation and a housing crisis in blaine county kept our numbers high during the reporting period. Over 7,400 people were served through our various programs in that timeframe, 56% of which were children. 1. Direct food access: our food pantry consists of food recovery, warehousing, distribution and a support system to efficiently provide access to nutritious, supplementary foods and care for families in crisis. We continue to see an increase in service numbers from unexpected lingering effects of the pandemic. Lack of affordable housing combined with continued high inflation, low wages and high food costs continute to keep families in our serice lines. We provided over 17,000 grocery carts to over 3,400 people during the reporting period, slightly higher than the previous period. Thanks to our food recovery efforts, almost 227,000 pounds of food were donated to our food pantry. Altogether, we distributed over 560,000 pounds of fresh and non-perishable foods through the food pantry in the reporting period utilizing over 3,800 volunteer hours. Our suite of children's food programs are designed to meet children's nutritional needs at a variety of ages. Through the generosity of our community, we were able to ensure 100% of the mothers who reached out to us had access to the formula their babies need. The hunger coalition gave out 341 cans of formula to 46 babies. Through daily bites, we provide supplemental nutritious food to schools, after school programs, and summer camps. During the july 1 2024 to june 30, 2025 period we distributed over 175,000 healthy snacks and food items each week to keep children fed, active and engaged. With ten school locations and 12 after-school locations, we estimate serving over 1,700 children through this program. Bloom truck is a mobile lunch and library in partnership with the community library that provides free food, fun, and reading for children in isolated pockets of blaine county. With eight different mobile locations over an 11 -week period, we served over 3,600 healthy lunches to 257 children from carey to ketchum. In our new commercial kitchen, we utilized 1,400 hours of volunteer time to serve over 9,600 community meals to families during our weekly food distributions while the cooking club made and shared 900 meals together. Our harvest ends up on the plates of our food insecure neighbors in our food pantry, our children's food programs and volunteer for veggies program. Over 6,100 pounds of produce were grown in our garden and at our new greenhouses during the reporting period. This season we continued to host groups from local schools and summer camps. This year, we hosted 13 different groups totaling over 240 kids in our growing spaces. Participants trade hours of labor on bloom community farm and in the hope garden for shares of fresh produce. Our 130 volunteer for veggies volunteers logged over 750 hours. The greenhouses contributed to these engagement opportunities, extending our volunteer season into the winter months.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
• Program expense ratio: 81.2%; rating input score 81
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 28.6%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.31; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings