Feeding Ga Families
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814028052
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Fairburn, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6782233663
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,149,218
- Expenses
- $1,518,563
- Assets
- $682,919
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Fred Vann (Board President)
- Vanessa Burton (Board Vice President)
- Margaret Rivera (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- William Joyner (Chief Operations Manager): $3,528 total reported compensation
- Margaret Rivera (CEO): $2,833 total reported compensation
- Vanessa Burton (Board Vice President): $1,911 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering communities by reducing food insecurity enhancing well-being and offering healthier options to at-risk populations. We provide nutritious food housing support workforce & youth development and vital resources for a brighter future.
What it reported doing in 2025
Food Security and Reducing Waste Programs - Mobile Food Pantries and Outreach Home Delivery Programs Operation E.F.F.O.R.T - Nationwide Emergency Food For Our communities Retirees and Teens Meals on Wheels 4 Kids GA - Georgia households with school aged children Operation DOYEN - Nationwide households with veterans and first responders Client Choice Pantries Grab N Go Market Onsite School and College Pantries and Emergency Food Lockers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.6%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $793.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.3%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 66.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 67.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.6% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 14/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.