Midwest Food Bank
Legal name: Midwest Food Bank Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 412120170
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Normal, IL, USA
- Phone
- 309.291.0900
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $579,032,442
- Expenses
- $569,275,925
- Assets
- $96,202,837
- Liabilities
- $3,057,356
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID KIESER (PRESIDENT)
- BILL LEMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ERIC HODEL (CEO)
- LISA SOLLBERGER (CFO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- PATRICK BURKE (COO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MIKE SWARTZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC HODEL (CEO): $418,272 total reported compensation
- JADA HOERR (CRO): $216,378 total reported compensation
- PATRICK BURKE (COO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $188,485 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
It is the mission of Midwest Food Bank to share the love of Christ by alleviating hunger and malnutrition and providing disaster relief. More Than a Meal, a Mission with Purpose Our mission is to share the love of Christ by alleviating hunger and malnutrition and providing disaster relief. Our vision is to serve those in need with excellence, providing physical and spiritual nourishment. Food Programs. Our mission is to share the love of Christ by alleviating hunger and malnutrition and providing disaster relief. Food Programs Gift a Meal! arrow.
What it reported doing in 2025
Midwest food bank provides food to partnering non-profit organizations such as food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, churches, and other non-profit organizations, free of charge, to be distributed in their communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: $388.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd 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; 65th 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: 1.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 97.7% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $565.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $418K · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.