Ella Curran Community Food Bank
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930797524
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Independence, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5039171681
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,318,646
- Expenses
- $1,332,166
- Assets
- $4,230,581
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN PUCCETTI (PRESIDENT)
- PATTY NEVUE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ROBIN PUCCETTI (PRESIDENT)
- TOM WILSON (SECRETARY)
- JANICE BURKS (CO-TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Food pantry providing food for people in need living in or near independence and monmouth Oregon.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ella curran community food bank, an all-volunteer, all-donated food organization for 48 years, continues to fulfill its mission to feed our neighbors in need. In 2025-2026, ella curran food bank had more 14,000 visits, serving 57,552 individuals. This is a 100% increase in shoppers in a four-year period. Areas served are monmouth, independence, rural polk county (67%) and rural marion county (33%). In kind donations, combined with cash donations, successfully meets the increasing food needs of shoppers. More than 70 community members volunteer to provide 12,000 hours of service annually. Combined with area partnerships and community involvement, the mission of ella curran community food bank helps the region reduce food insecurity. The food bank always rented space for food distribution and rented an additional waiting room space for shoppers safety, confidentiality and ada needs. In 2025-26, the food bank increased shopping sessions from four times per week to five times per week; this increase is due to economic and snap benefit concerns. Fundraising for the new building continues. Phase two, the parking lot, water retention swale and infrastructure, is complete. Two events, with attendance totaling 300 people, have celebrated the progress. Fundraising has reached 90% of the goal.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.6%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 42.5%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.18; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.6% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.