Feeding Pennsylvania
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454793238
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Lemoyne, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7177243182
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,314,744
- Expenses
- $38,399,058
- Assets
- $11,360,170
- Liabilities
- $4,167,349
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE BANCROFT (CEO)
- ELIZABETH HAMILTON (MARC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JULIE BANCROFT (CEO): $182,815 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH HAMILTON (MARC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $164,685 total reported compensation
- SHEA S SAMAN (CFO): $159,138 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 Pennsylvania is the partner state association of feeding america food banks. It is our mission to promote and aid our members in securing food and other resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity for their communities and across (continued on schedule o) Pennsylvania, and to provide a shared voice on the issues of hunger and food access within the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Working collaboratively as a network, our food banks are able to share and develop best practices for the common good of those struggling with hunger in the commonwealth.
What it reported doing in 2024
Increase access to healthy food: feeding pa works with farmers and processors to increase access to healthy food for our food banks and the neighbors they serve through agricultural partnerships. The mid-atlantic regional cooperative partners with farmers, wholesalers and importers to distribute fresh produce to food banks across the mid-atlantic region. Fill a glass with hope is a charitable fresh milk program that raises money for food banks to purchase fresh milk from local dairies. In july 2020, feeding pa became the contractor for the pa agricultural surplus system, which invests in pa agriculture by supporting local farms, reducing food waste, and channeling nurtitious Pennsylvania - grown and produced food through food banks to reach pennsylvanians experiencing hunger and food insecurity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 74% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: $773.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 37th 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; 66th 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: 2.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $38.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $183K · 16 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 56 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 44 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.