Bread Riot
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271289702
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Salisbury, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7047786928
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,031
- Expenses
- $60,760
- Assets
- $55,531
- Liabilities
- $40,379
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dortha Hoy (President)
- Trish Dunn (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dortha Hoy (President)
- Trish Dunn (Vice President)
- Brian Pfaff (Secertary)
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
The Bread Riots mission is to link farms to tables by supporting our small farmers and providing access to locally produced foods throughout the community. We are a food advocacy group that works with local farmers to help supply much needed fresh foods to area churches, schools, and community by receiving grants and then purchasing produce from our farmers to give away.
What it reported doing in 2025
Bread Riot volunteers distribute fresh produce from local farmer to Rowan-Salisbury School meal sites, area senior sites, we served 553 families at Summer Feed sites, and we gave out 360 School Harvest Bags, and distributed a total of 24,405 pounds of locally produced goods. We 368 volunteer opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.1%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 53.5%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.73; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.1% of revenue deployed · 53.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.