Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana

What it reported doing in 2024

Food distributionas Indiana's largest food bank, gleaners recognizes that our superpower is the sourcing and distribution of large quantities of nutritious food. In our fiscal year 2025, we distributed a record 102 million meals to our 21-county service area in Indiana, and through fresh connect central, a regional food distribution organization operated as a social enterprise by gleaners. Fresh connect central serves the feeding america network of food banks, providing fresh produce, protein, dairy, and dry goods.see schedule o for continuation.key metrics for selected programs include:- 7.6 million meals distributed through our onsite pantry, the largest in the state- 1.3 million meals through our gleaners2go curbside pickup program and via home delivery program by referral from case workers or other professionals to those individuals who lack transportation or who are unable to get to a pantry location- 37 million meals provided by our network partners in our 21-county service area- 1.9 million meals for students and families through school pantries and summer meal sitesnutrition program gleaners is committed to providing a wide variety of nutritious food to those we serve. We recognize the direct connection between food insecurity and the top chronic conditions affecting overall health, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and more. In 2025, gleaners distributed 54 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables. Gleaners ranks food distributed based on partnership for a healthier america and their healthy eating research (her) guidelines. Most foods are ranked as green (choose often), yellow (choose sometimes) or red (choose rarely) when they arrive in our warehouse. Approximately 80% of our inventory is ranked based on these guidelines, with the balance typically being mixed loads of donated food, or other items such as oils, spices, and condiments. In fiscal year 2025, 67% of the foods distributed by gleaners were ranked as green or yellow based on these guidelines. Outreach and economic mobility gleaners established a supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) outreach program in 2011 in response to the sharp rise in food insecurity following the great recession in 2008. In 2025, we assisted over 1,846 neighbors in submitting their snap applications. Snap is a crucial part of any hunger relief program. In fact, for every meal provided by the charitable hunger relief system, snap provides 9 meals. Helping our neighbors access such a robust and effective assistance program allows the household's limited budget to be spent on housing, utilities, transportation, and critical necessities. Based on these efforts and a commitment to empowering our neighbors onto a path of greater self-sufficiency, gleaners expanded our outreach team with an eye toward expanded services, including assistance with medicaid, temporary assistance to needy families (tanf), utility, internet, and cellular assistance, and more. In addition, in may 2025 the tom and julie wood family resource center opened at gleaners. This facility houses gennesaret free clinics, the purdue patterson mcallum maretta charitable pharmacy (first of its kind in Indiana), the central Indiana council on aging (cicoa), womens infants and childrens program (wic), the marion county public health department nutrition education, free legal assistance, and more, in 2025.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
• Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
• Fundraising efficiency: $46.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 3.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings