Mattawan Area Pantry in Mattawan Michigan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300666170
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Paw Paw, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2692075398
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $227,438
- Expenses
- $172,326
- Assets
- $163,423
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIN GARNAAT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARY BROWN (DIRECTOR)
- MOLLY CHASE (TREASURER)
- ANN ELLIS (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the mattawan area pantry is to provide an opportunity for neighbors to help neighbors by providing food assistance to families in need who reside in the mattawan school district. Map operates a food pantry as an independent, faith-based, not-for-profit corporation in order to serve those who need food assistance. Assistance will be provided to community and county residents. The pantry operates with assistance from individuals and organizations contributing both food and monies. We provide food without discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing food assistance to families in need who reside in the mattawan school district. The organization purchased and received over 175,000 pounds of food that was used to serve a total of 6,638 people in 2025 that included 1,659 households, 2,780 children, 1,018 seniors, and 187 veterans. The pantry held distributions on the first and third saturdays of the month throughout the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $166K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.