The Idaho Foodbank
Legal name: Idaho Foodbank Warehouse
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820425400
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Meridian, ID, US
- Phone
- 208-233-8811
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,843,207
- Expenses
- $54,579,734
- Assets
- $38,891,715
- Liabilities
- $767,100
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Randy Ford (President & CEO)
- Jack Robinson (Vice President, Human Resources)
Highest reported compensation
- Randy Ford (President & CEO): $239,193 total reported compensation
- Craig Johnson (CFO thru 01/2025): $215,581 total reported compensation
- Morgan Wilson (Chief Development Officer): $186,829 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Idaho Foodbank aims to support the children, adults, and seniors of Idaho by providing access to vital nutrition along with resources to move from a place of hunger toward living healthy and productive lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
Direct & Indirect Food Distribution: The Idaho Foodbank operates warehouse facilities in Meridian, Lewiston, and Pocatello, distributing donated and purchased food to a statewide network of over 400 Partner Agencies in all 44 Idaho counties. Partner Agencies include schools, churches, pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers, and supplemental food programs. For communities that lack a brick-and-mortar food pantry or special populations that require supplemental food support, The Idaho Foodbank conducts scheduled mobile pantry deliveries of fresh, dry and frozen food. The Idaho Foodbank distributed over 25.3 million pounds of food - providing food for up to 21 million meals - through partner agencies and its own direct-service programs throughout the state of Idaho. When food is purchased, volume buying power maximized the return on donor contributions to such a degree that one dollar can provide food for up to three meals. The Idaho Foodbank, through its Food Rescue program, captured and distributed to those in need over 8.7 million pounds of surplus food from growers, processors, and distribution to families. The work is largely done by volunteers. During the fiscal year 71,377 hours were donated by 25,226 volunteers, the equivalent of 34 full-time employees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 87% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.5%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 31st 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 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: -1.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 94.5% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $50.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $239K · 23 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $687K reported
- Consistency: 48 of 49 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 330 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 290 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 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.