Gather

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
020226943
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Portsmouth, NH, USA
Phone
6034360641
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,477,063
Expenses
$5,821,951
Assets
$13,579,593
Liabilities
$4,016,497

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROB GIBBONS (PRESIDENT)
  • SHAUN MATHEWS (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ANNE HAYES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANNE HAYES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $219,005 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Gather offers innovative programs that build food security in welcoming and dignified ways. These include our pantry market, mobile markets, Meals 4 Kids, Cooking 4 Community, gleaning, and our Gather Cafe at Great Bay Community College.

What it reported doing in 2024

Gather's Pantry Market provides fresh and shelf stable nutritious food, personal care, and pet food for its members. The Pantry Market is open Monday through Thursday from 10 am to 5 pm and Fridays from 10 am to 2 pm. Members can shop once a month at the pantry market. Staff and volunteers are always available to assist members with shopping needs, but customers have the freedom to shop for what they need and what they like.Gather's Mobile Markets provide fresh and shelf stable nutritious food. Markets take place weekly and biweekly at locations across the Greater Seacoast, bringing this food to where people live, including Dover, Farmington, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Portsmouth, Raymond, Rochester, Seabrook, and Somersworth.Gather's Meals 4 Kids (M4K) program provides free fresh and nutritious food for children and teens in our community. Our M4K program distributes the ingredients for 10 meals for every child per week during the summer and school vacations throughout the school year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50.9%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $33.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 44.4%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.33; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50.9% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $219K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.