Greater Cleveland Food Bank
Legal name: Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341292848
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, US
- Phone
- 216.738.2067
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,223,738
- Expenses
- $98,259,828
- Assets
- $162,578,588
- Liabilities
- $40,849,526
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
44 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTIN WARZOCHA (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTIN WARZOCHA (PRESIDENT & CEO): $421,679 total reported compensation
- DWAYNE BRAKE (CHIEF LOGISTICS OFFICER): $236,281 total reported compensation
- VALISSA TURNER HOWARD (CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER): $229,923 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To ensure everyone in our communities has the nutritious food they need every day.
What it reported doing in 2024
Children's nutrition initiative: the greater cleveland food bank's cni programming helps to ensure that low-income children have access to healthy food. There are four core programs of our cni programming: kids cafe (meals prepared by the greater cleveland food bank and provided through community partners to children after school), summer meals (meals prepared by the greater cleveland food bank and provided through community partners to children during the summer months), school markets (a school-based program where the greater cleveland food bank delivers fresh produce and other kid-friendly items at the end of a school day to be distributed to children and their families), and backpacks for kids (shelf-stable kid-friendly snack items distributed through community partners to children weekly before the weekend). Over 3 million pounds of food were distributed through these programs this year, making possible over 2.5 million meals for children in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 97
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.9%; rating input score 88; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.7% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 33 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $87.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $422K · 44 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.