Help the Hungry Bake Sale Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461181558
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Farmington, MO, USA
- Phone
- 5737561134
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $211,123
- Expenses
- $124,000
- Assets
- $211,133
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARLENE BROCKMILLER (BOARD MEMBER)
- CINDY DANIELEY (BOARD MEMBER)
- CHRISTINE LANDRUM (CHAIRMAN)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The help the hungry bake sale is a joint effort between community churches, local businesses, social organizations, schools, and citizens for the sole purpose of raising money for the two farmington food pantries - the ministerial alliance food pantry and the st. Vincent depaul food pantry. The bake sale is not intended to promote individual churches, businesses or organizations. The bake sale is a mission to help those in need in our local community. As a spin-off, the bake sale is an event where churches, businesses, schools, and community can come together to support a united cause.
What it reported doing in 2025
To raise money through an annual bake sale for food pantries in farmington.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 82% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.7%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41.3%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 59/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.