La Soupe Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474452384
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5132710100
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,891,524
- Expenses
- $9,156,797
- Assets
- $6,888,204
- Liabilities
- $698,158
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM DECHERT (CHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT)
- EMMA SCHRODER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- EMMA SCHRODER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $128,089 total reported compensation
- SUZANNE DEYOUNG (FOUNDER): $94,903 total reported compensation
- RICHARD CROPPER (CFO (2024)): $75,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bridging the gap between food waste and hunger by rescuing otherwise wasted produce to create delicious and highly-nutritious meals for customers, non-profits and food-insecure families.
What it reported doing in 2024
La soupe addresses the needs of the food insecure through a chef-based model in which rescued perishable food is transformed into prepared servings for distribution. Between 7/1/24 to 6/30/25, our rescue partners donated over 1.5 million pounds of perfectly good perishable food headed to the landfill. La soupe gathered, sorted, and packaged approximately 60% of this food before directly sharing to community agencies feeding the food insecure. The remaining food was transformed by the la soupe staff and volunteers into soup and other preparedmeals. Between 7/1/24 to 6/30/25, la soupe donated approximately 1.0 million servings to the food insecure.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $101.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -3%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.2% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.