Buddy Box Connection
Legal name: Family Mentor Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472504835
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Columbus, OH, United States
- Phone
- 6145477737
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $355,796
- Expenses
- $288,433
- Assets
- $137,144
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Meegan Jesuele (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Meegan Jesuele (Executive Director): $68,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are still focused on meeting the nutritional needs of children in our community so they can reach their full potential. We do that by delivering kid-friendly, shelf-stable food to children in need each week. We are deeply committed to making a positive impact in our community. We create and build strong and lasting relationships with our school and community partners collaborating to forward our mission. Stewardship We are good stewards of all the resources entrusted to us to support our program and the children we serve, by the generosity of our donors, community and corporate partners and our volunteers. We believe that children should never go hungry and always have access to the nutrition they need, so they can reach their full potential. We are wholly dedicated to our mission to serve food insecure children in our community by helping to ensure they have access to a...
What it reported doing in 2024
Buddy boxes that are filled with nonperishable, nutritional, individual-sized foods are assembled by volunteer groups. These buddy boxes are delivered to schools by volunteers, schools then distribute these boxes to children in needs. These boxes with meals and snacks are to help sustain the children in needs on the weekends when they are not in school and thus school provided food is not available. All program expenses are funded through contributions or grants. Expenses include direct food expenses, direct salaries related to the program, as well as a small allocation of key employee salaries, facility and other overhead costs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.9%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 65.1%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.9%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 52.9% of revenue deployed · 65.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $188K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.