Gleaners Community Food Bank
Legal name: Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382156255
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Taylor, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8664532637
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,598,866
- Expenses
- $91,561,917
- Assets
- $65,591,509
- Liabilities
- $13,224,355
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
42 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GERALD BRISSON (PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- GERALD BRISSON (PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $330,022 total reported compensation
- PATRICK SCHULTE (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $308,207 total reported compensation
- JEFF OSSOWSKI (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $267,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Gleaners Community Food Bank exists to provide households with access to sufficient, nutritious food and related resources. Gleaners distributes millions of pounds of free, nutritious food through our network of partner pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, senior centers, and other agencies. In addition, we operate Community and School Food Mobile distributions across Southeast Michigan, providing fresh produce, lean proteins, dairy, and pantry staples to neighbors facing hunger. Need Help? Browse these resources to learn more about Gleaners' Food Assistance Programs. SNAP benefits can provide life-changing assistance to neighbors facing hunger during times of crisis or when resources are few. Learn More CSFP.
What it reported doing in 2024
Gleaners core activity involves securing, storing, and distributing nutritious food to those in need via a network of community partners, schools, and programs located throughout wayne, oakland, macomb, livingston and monroe counties. In fy2025, gleaners food distributions totaled 47.5 million pounds, equating to over 39 million meals. To supplement our network of partner agency food distributions in fy2025, we maintained a network of 22 equivalent gleaners run bi-weekly mobile food distributions focused on underserved communities. These community mobiles served 188,378 meal packages through 498 distributions in fy2025, including fresh produce and milk, along with shelf stable and frozen food staples. Distributions through these community mobiles totaled 6.9 million pounds of the 47.5 million pounds of total food distributions.in fy2025, gleaners served students and families through monthly school mobile food distributions at 39 sites with 1.5 million pounds of food.gleaners senior mobile pantries bring nutritious food to low-income senior living communities. Gleaners provided 256,000 pounds of food, through monthly food distributions, to nine senior housing sites. Gleaners also participates in the usda's commodity supplemental food program (csfp) for seniors. In fy2025, gleaners provided 664,000 pounds of nutritious food staples through 16,619 distributions to eligible seniors.providing nutritious food that families want and need is our priority, including fresh produce and milk. In fy2025, gleaners distributed 15 million pounds of fresh produce, accounting for 32% of all food distributions. Leveraging a broad range of government, industry, and community partners, including the usda, united dairy industry of Michigan, and the Michigan dairy farmers, gleaners was able to source and distribute over 844,000 gallons of fluid milk to the community in fy2025. Combined, fresh produce and milk accounted for 48% of all food distributions in fy2025.in total for fy2025, gleaners food programming reached nearly 1.1 million households via both our partner agencies and our direct-to-consumer distributions across our five-county service area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 86% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.5%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 92%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.2%; rating input score 96; 50th 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: 2.2%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.5% of revenue deployed · 92% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 26 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $84.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $330K · 42 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.5M reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.