Free Lunch Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264722790
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Iowa City, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3193376283
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $187,749
- Expenses
- $139,892
- Assets
- $223,943
- Liabilities
- $1,685
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRYCEN MYERS (PRESIDENT)
- SHELLY FREEMOLE (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- MARCIA BOLINGER (PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRYCEN MYERS (PRESIDENT)
- SHELLY FREEMOLE (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- SHARYN REITZ (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
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What it reported doing in 2025
Provide free lunch meals to needy individuals in the communty
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97
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: 25.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.9% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.