Fallbrook Food Pantry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330491216
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Fallbrook, CA, United States
- Phone
- (760) 728-7608
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,960,481
- Expenses
- $3,731,618
- Assets
- $1,769,870
- Liabilities
- $475,104
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIM WILLARD (CO-PRESIDENT)
- CATHERINE SOUSA (CO-PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SHAE GAWLAK (Executive Dir.): $100,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Fallbrook Food Pantry provides access to healthy and nutritious food for all through food distribution, education, and health monitoring to address food insecurity and empower clients to become self-sufficient, independent, and productive community members. Mission Statement The Fallbrook Food Pantry - FFP provides access to healthy and nutritious food for all. Through food distribution, education, health monitoring, and with the help of our dedicated staff and volunteers, as well as the support and generous donations by the community, businesses, and organizations, we work to address food insecurity and the social determinants of health by reducing inequities. Our programs empower our clients to become self-sufficient, independent, and productive community members by offering a well-balanced selection of food, nutrition, wellness, and vocational education. We are a nonprofit...
What it reported doing in 2025
Market distributionqualified families are entitled to food items based on family size and are determined by a menu that is developed each week, which is planned to proivde balanced meals for 4-5 meals per week. This amounts to approximately 10-12 pounds per person within each client household. On the last wednesday of every month, participants may receive fresh produce from th epantry at the life point church parking lot. The pantry distributes governmental commodities delivered by the san diego food bank to clients. The pantry distributes emergency food assistance program (efap) items to clients during the third full week of the month. The pantry also offers this program to senior clients during extended hours on wednesday afternoons during the scheduled efap distributions weeks. The senior food program or brown box is a usda program designed to improve the health of low-income seniors who are 60 years or older, residents of san diego county, and meet program income guidelines. The senior food program provides qualified clients with a monthly food package containing items such as canned vegatbles, fruit juice, pasta, milk, ceral, canned meat, and a block of cheese. The pantry coordinates the adopt-a-family program with community members and churches to provide children under 16 years of age with holiday gifts. During the covid-19 lockdowns, farmers were unable to sell produce to restaurants and grocery stores in as high a capacity as usual. Due to federal government programming, food banks accross the nation benefitted from the farmers' excess crops at no cost, while the government paid the farmers for their goods. The pantry distributed the excess crops received to its clients during 2022-2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $40.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd 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: 5.8%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90.6% of revenue deployed · 96.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.