Feeding America West Michigan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382439659
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Kentwood, MI, US
- Phone
- 616-784-3250
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,807,443
- Expenses
- $59,944,982
- Assets
- $35,758,355
- Liabilities
- $1,190,296
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KENNETH R ESTELLE (PRESIDENT/CE)
Highest reported compensation
- KENNETH R ESTELLE (PRESIDENT/CE): $232,146 total reported compensation
- ZACHARY SAUCIER (COO): $151,468 total reported compensation
- GARY MUNCK (CFO): $135,350 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing nourishment and hunger relief resources to our neighbors by amplifying the strength of communities through collaboration and a
What it reported doing in 2025
Surplus products received as donations from U.S.d.a, food wholesalers, farms, and distributors. Products are stored, sorted, and distributed to food pantries for a small handling fee as program revenue for the organization. The food pantry then distributes the food to needy people free of charge. Not including the estimated non-cash value of food donated and distributed, the food bank had a gain of 5 million. See schedule o for additional information related to the non-cash value of food donated and distributed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 85% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $36.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.6%; rating input score 99; 43rd 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; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 7.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 91.6% of revenue deployed · 94.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $232K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.6M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 538 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 499 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.