Food for All Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222778764
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Elkins Park, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2157826000
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $624,676
- Expenses
- $869,114
- Assets
- $1,999,983
- Liabilities
- $1,833,928
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID DOBSON (Executive Dir.): $168,985 total reported compensation
- Ettel Dobson (Officer): $97,640 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Food for life has provide affordable housing for low income families and provide assistance to buyers who desire home ownership, educational activities open to the public including but not limited to conductiung retreats, classes and seminars for physcial and spiritual health and well being. Advise and guide other non-profits and tax exempt orgranizations in order to shared food for all's knowledge and decades of experience in furtherance of food for all's purposes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Food for life operate various housing programs started in the early 1990's in cooperation with the department of public welfare, the department of housing & urban development and the city of philadelphia. What began as a homeless-shelter and soup kitchens initiative has evolved into an affordable housing program that now services hundreds of members of distressed populations such as low-income, senior, and mental health clients in the philadelphia and surrounding areas, as well as providing assistance to buyers who desire home ownership. Food for life partners with other unrelated nonprofit entities sharing the same vision as them by leasing available housing to these individuals to carry out its missions. They also have educational actiivities open to the public including but not limited to conducting retreats, classes and seminars for physcial and spiritual health and well being.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -39.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.92; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $830K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $169K · 2 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.