Feeding Children Everywhere Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273274349
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Longwood, FL, USA
Phone
8888916447
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,121,553
Expenses
$6,949,961
Assets
$1,443,840
Liabilities
$1,756,543

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RICARDO WHITTED (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Brandon Baker (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • RICARDO WHITTED (Chief Executive Officer): $226,731 total reported compensation
  • Ezekiel Brooks (Chief Technology Officer): $174,034 total reported compensation
  • Brandon Baker (Vice President): $149,703 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 children everywhere is committed to providing healthy meals to those in need. We are committed to sustainability. Creating a hunger-free world will be possible if we have an awareness of our impact on the world around us. We have implemented sustainability goals to reduce our carbon footprint and to eliminate the utilization of harmful plastics. This commitment also includes helping to create self-sufficient and sustainable communities through our program areas. We are committed to making your contribution truly matter. Financial efficiency and meaningful impact are the pillars of our committment. We believe that financial transparency combined with a high-energy, tangible impact volunteer experience is the key to a contribution that makes a meaningful difference.

What it reported doing in 2024

Feeding Children Everywhere, Inc. (the "Organization") is a Florida not-for-profit corporation established to empower and mobilize people to assemble healthy meals for hungry children and their families. The Organization organizes scalable food packing events. These events are held primarily throughout the United States. The Organization implemented its first program in 2010 named Hunger Projects, allowing donors and volunteers to make a difference in the lives of hungry children, individuals and families worldwide. Hunger Project events consist of the packaging, shipment and donation of food to other nonprofit organizations in need. Those locations range from within the community near the packing sites, to international nonprofit organizations, or distributed directly to individuals and families through the Full Cart program. In an effort to diversify the Organization's revenue streams for operational and mission impact consistency, management developed a direct food delivery program named Fed 40. This program launched in 2016 and was intended to test the viability of direct shipment for food assistance packages. This program shipped over 350,000 meals within eighteen months of the pilot. The feedback received revealed an important component of need, which led the Organization to pilot to a larger scaled version of the program named Full Cart. The Full Cart Program, an online grocery delivery system model, was designed for individuals and families simply seeking a lower-cost alternative to expensive online food delivery programs within the domestic United States. Bringing Full Cart to scale required an adjustment in the Organization's warehouse capacity, a realignment of staffing needs and a change to our fundraising model. The Organization's donors include individuals, businesses, wholesalers, educational institutions, religious organizations, technical services and professional service organizations that provide the Organization with usable food, funding and resources to support our programs.

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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 84.6%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $48.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • 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: 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: 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: 2.4%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.22; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 84.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $227K · 11 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.