Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341810545
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2166198155
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,626,235
- Expenses
- $13,455,454
- Assets
- $2,874,228
- Liabilities
- $588,625
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JULIE JOHNSON (CHIEF EXEC O): $144,124 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of hunger network of greater cleveland is feeding our communities' future. The organization accomplishes this by coordinating emergency food distribution and food recovery/waste reduction/sustainability response and other nutrition related services to individuals and families throughout cuyahoga county.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our environmentally friendly hunger network's food rescue program experienced continued growth throughout 2025. Food rescue recovers perfectly viable food that is destined for our waste stream and redirects this surplus food to those who face food insecurity in our community. The program utilizes the food rescue hero app technology to connect food donors to nonprofit food recipients through dedicated volunteers who pick up and deliver the food. Food rescue also continued to expand into lake, lorain, geauga, and summit counties. In 2025, we had 691 total registered volunteers and 225 active volunteers that completed 6,602 rescues, resulting in an estimated 1,482,685 pounds of food rescued, which equates to 1,235,570 meals. Rescuing this food mitigated 2,556,367 pounds of co2 from our atmosphere. Retail value of this rescued food equates to 2,649,312 note: active volunteers are defined as a volunteer who has completed 1 or more rescues in that calendar year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $39.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 1.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 26 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $12.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $144K · 27 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.