Hollywood Food Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464079214
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3234622032
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,706,701
- Expenses
- $7,084,358
- Assets
- $3,649,464
- Liabilities
- $695,106
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN M MATHENA TO 032024 (PRESIDENT)
- ARNALI RAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ARNALI RAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $173,431 total reported compensation
- ASHER LANDAU (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT): $108,902 total reported compensation
- KRISTIN FEUER (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $40,398 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. We rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. We care for our immediate community through our wellness program. We build community with and through our volunteers and community partnerships.
What it reported doing in 2024
The community dinner - the community dinner program serves on average 250 hot nutritious meals every night of the year. In 2024 we served 98,000 meals. Volunteers and staff prepare multi-course meals that consist of meat and vegetable dishes, grains and starches, bread, green salads, fruit salads, desserts, and beverages. Sustainability is integral, with ingredients rescued by our community exchange. Hfc emphasizes nutritional, quality meals and affords our guests the dignity of choice between different dishes, including vegetarian and vegan options. The organization serves any hungry person, many of whom are unhoused, at risk of becoming unhoused, or low-income, with no exclusionary intake or prohibitive requirements that would turn them away. We are planning to move our dinner program (continued on sch. O) to a new location, which will be called refettorio la and include an improved program experience, such as seated table service and additional on-site services through our community wellness program. Approximately 9,500 volunteer hours contribute to the success of this program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 78% 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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 89.5%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.3%; rating input score 96; 31st 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; 63rd 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: 8.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.7% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $173K · 24 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 37 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 68 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 39 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 58/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.