Hunger Task Force Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391345847
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- West Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4147770483
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,181,704
- Expenses
- $24,970,845
- Assets
- $45,171,386
- Liabilities
- $1,586,230
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKE ZEKA (PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER JONES (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MATTHEW KING (CEO EFFECTIVE 6/5/2024)
- SHERRIE TUSSLER (FORMER CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SHERRIE TUSSLER (FORMER CEO): $439,287 total reported compensation
- MATTHEW KING (CEO EFFECTIVE 6/5/2024): $253,772 total reported compensation
- JONATHAN HANSEN (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $200,649 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hunger task force believes that every person has a right to healthy food obtained with dignity. We work to prevent hunger and malnutrition by providing food to people in need today and by promoting social policies to achieve a hunger free community tomorrow.
What it reported doing in 2024
Outreach: provided summer meals to local eligible children in milwaukee; maintained the hunger relief fund; organized food for families campaign and other large signature community food drives, distributions and events; assisted eligible participants with navigating the Wisconsin foodshare program; provided nutrition education in local public schools, partnered with piggly wiggly to bring the mobile market to milwaukee neighborhoods.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 45% for direct work, and 55% for 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.3%; rating input score 99; 33rd 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; 66th 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: 11.4%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $22.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $439K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $613K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 227 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 95 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.