Feeding Kids in Our Backyard Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
814284286
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5037844121
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$52,828
Expenses
$48,458
Assets
$11,695
Liabilities
$39,885

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • LYDIA MASSAAD (Executive Dir.)
  • LAURA KHANNA (Director)
  • WILLIAM BELL (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Providing meals for children.

What it reported doing in 2025

Feeding kids in our backyard supports kids who are facing food insecurities and need lifes necessities to survive and thrive. With nutrition and hygiene, we support kids in the foster care system throughout Oregon and sw Washington - over 2000 youth a year. We also provide approximately 850 meals a week, to 20 elementary schools.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.41; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $169K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.