Feeding Tampa Bay
Legal name: Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592116576
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tampa, FL, US
- Phone
- 813.254.1190
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $211,887,087
- Expenses
- $208,942,087
- Assets
- $73,030,704
- Liabilities
- $27,232,561
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS MANTZ (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS MANTZ (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $386,079 total reported compensation
- AMY KERN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $194,645 total reported compensation
- RHONDA GINDLESPERGER (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $189,475 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create pathways to possibilities by providing food, job training, health and wellness resources, and financial stability services to nearly 1 million neighbors in need across Tampa Bay.
What it reported doing in 2024
The primary focus of feeding america tampa bay, inc. (d/b/a feeding tampa bay) is to collect, warehouse, and distribute salvageable food to individuals and families who are food insecure. We do so by delivering or serving food directly or through community partners at regional food pantries, local food pantries, school pantries, our tampa warehouse, and three trinity cafes. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, we delivered over 103 million pounds of food, groceries, and snap application support that translated into over 91 million meals. And our trinity cafes served 135,000 meals, a 25% increase year over year. Our program service accomplishments possible in large part due to the support of volunteers including individuals, businesses, community organizers, and school groups. This fiscal year over 58,000 volunteers gave approximately 162,000 hours of service to feeding tampa bay in the accomplishment of our mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 89% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 97.3%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $59.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.3%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 1.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 97.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 30 of 30 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $203.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $386K · 39 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.4M reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 315 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 307 filed related-organization links
- 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 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.