Feeding Hands Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472253408
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hillsborough, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9085094263
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,626,417
- Expenses
- $4,286,524
- Assets
- $1,780,826
- Liabilities
- $277,423
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lois Bennett (Founder/ Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Lois Bennett (Founder/ Executive Director): $122,365 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Establish a food Pantry and other programs that serve and assist the community and those in need.
What it reported doing in 2025
This past year, Feeding Hands distributed 1.14 million pounds of food during 16,100 family visits from our main location and four satellites in Central NJ. This is an average of $272 of groceries per family visit of which 28% was fresh produce: 14% was fresh or frozen meat, fish, and dairy; and 7% was fresh breads and bakery. Feeding Hands includes essential items beyond food to include personal care, laundry detergent, pet food, diapers, adult incontinence, and feminine hygiene products to every family who needs it. We connect families to support services such as healthcare and insurance programs and make connections to government programs such as SNAP. We also distribute childrens books each month to all families with children to feed young minds in addition to feeding bodies. With a unique approach, we cultivate contagious volunteerism to involve the community in helping their neighbors which serves to build bridges within the communities that we serve. Volunteers donated 32,000 hours of service in 2025 which, if paid to staff would have cost $1,166,000.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $43.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th 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: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.4% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.