Heart of Alabama Food Bank
Legal name: Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 630931846
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Montgomery, AL, United States
- Phone
- 334-263-3784
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,797,811
- Expenses
- $50,259,705
- Assets
- $24,525,508
- Liabilities
- $285,992
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN LUCAS JR (PRESIDENT)
- OLIVIA MARTIN (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL COLEMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL COLEMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $144,536 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our Mission:** To source, acquire, and distribute nutritious food to those experiencing hunger and food insecurity throughout our region, so that families, seniors, and children can thrive. We take a strategic, two-pronged approach to addressing food insecurity: In our 12-county direct service area, we partner with more than 200 local agencies—including food pantries, shelters, and community kitchens—to provide food and support to those facing hunger.
What it reported doing in 2024
The structure of our organization provides increased opportunity for success to the local community agencies we support by collecting, sorting (both dry/staple and cold/frozen) and distributing food. Along with four smaller affiliated food banks (afbs) under our supervision, we have a service area reaching to 35 of Alabama's 67 counties (with a population of approximately 1,614,000) and more than 600 community agencies. Our mission is to provide food to the children, elderly, newly unemployed, workking poor, homeless, mentally challenged, and victims of domestic violence and disasters. During our last fiscal year, we distributed more than 29 million pounds of vital nutrition to those in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 88% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $65.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 43rd 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 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: 4.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.9% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $48.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 32 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $491K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 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.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.