Fishes & Loaves Cooperative Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900681840
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4124994313
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,593
- Expenses
- $133,566
- Assets
- $99,512
- Liabilities
- $4,532
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Deacon Thomas J Berna (Operations Manager)
- Reverend Leslie T Boone (Chair)
- Rev Daniel Walsh CSSp (Treasurer)
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
To provide healthy food at a reasonable price to residents in the neighborhoods of Hazelwood & Greenfield, PA. All services are provided without charge.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hazelwood, PA Food Pantry -On the 1st Saturday of each month food is distributed to > 100 families, through the association with the Greater Pgh Community Food Bank that provides the fresh produce, dairy products, meat, canned goods, cereal & other shelf-stable products such foods are provided to the pantry the before each of the 1st Saturdays.Emergency Food Boxes - Responds to requests for emergency food that occur throughout the month. If the request is the they can come to our facility then they can select food from the pantry including produce, dairy, meat & other shelf stable items. If the request states that they cannot come to our pantry, then 50-60 pounds of produce is delivered to anywhere within 2 miles of the pantry.Senior Boxes - In support of the Greater Pgh Community Food Bank deliveries are made to approximately 10 senior neighbors once per month.Shopping, Social contact & General Support For Neighbors - Shopping is performed for 2-4 times per month to neighbors who find it difficult to get to the supermarket or lack the ability to order food using a computerHealth Screening - In partnership with the Pharmacy School of Duquesne University - students come to the Hazelwood pantry on the first saturday of each month and offer complementary health screenings.Legal Assistance - In partnership with the Thomas Kline School of Law at Duquesne University students & lawyers come to the Hazelwood pantry & provide pro bono legal information and services to our neighbors based on need.Projects have included: Resolving Tangled Titles on housing, Preparing wills & Medical Power of Attorney statements, Conducting a clinic for Clearing Criminal Records & Resources related to expungements, seating & pardons.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 77% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.