Feed the Hunger
Legal name: Feed the Hunger Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 560953324
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Greensboro, NC, United States
- Phone
- (336) 227-1273
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,537,252
- Expenses
- $4,589,413
- Assets
- $5,936,989
- Liabilities
- $2,593,847
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH WILLIAMS (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSEPH WILLIAMS (CEO): $141,904 total reported compensation
- SCOTT HAHN (COO): $115,663 total reported compensation
- JULIE CRAIG (CAO): $90,756 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children. Vincent is our Creative Manager and leads our Marketing Team. From printed materials to social media to emails to our website, Vincent more than likely had a hand in it. He’s always ready with a deadline to keep our communications with donors and supporters on schedule. With 18 years of design experience at Feed the Hunger, he tries to paint a picture of the mission field without words. Vincent also coordinates our IT support and keeps up with current trends in communications. He’s been leading Packathons since 2011 with a heavy dose of humor and volunteer engagement. Vincent received his BA in Art (concentrating in Digital Art) with a minor in Business from Elon University. He also had the.
What it reported doing in 2024
Feed the hunger is an evangelical mission organization that connects followers of christ with strategic leaders domestically and overseas to help fulfill the great commission. The organization equips these leaders to feed spiritual hunger with tools like bibles, community centers, church buildings, bicycles and micro-enterprise projects. Physical hunger is met through the provision of nutritious food, clean water and emergency aid. In 2024, 7.17 million meals, 24,129 bibles, 17,640 hygiene packs and 5,100 edu-packs were produced and distributed around the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 43% for direct work, and 57% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 86.5%; rating input score 86; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $142K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.