North Texas Food Bank
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751785357
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Plano, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2143301396
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $273,068,349
- Expenses
- $264,346,265
- Assets
- $190,734,788
- Liabilities
- $29,916,863
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRISHA CUNNINGHAM (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TRISHA CUNNINGHAM (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $606,700 total reported compensation
- ERICA YAEGER (CHIEF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS OFFICER): $302,429 total reported compensation
- MAURICE WILSON II (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $284,263 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To close the hunger gap in north Texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
What it reported doing in 2024
The food 4 kids program feeds students facing hunger on the weekends when school feeding programs are closed and students are the most vulnerable. Food 4 kids provides children with backpacks of nutritious food every friday throughout the school year. Each backpack is filled with kid-friendly snacks carefully selected by our nutrition services manager to provide two-thirds of a child's weekend nutritional needs. In the 2024-2025 school year, food 4 kids provided more than 720,000 meals, operated in 255 schools and served an average of 5,500 children facing hunger each week. After participating in food 4 kids, children improved significantly on these measures: exhibited fewer behaviors associated with food insecurity, talked less frequently about issues related to food insecurity, were judged to be more emotionally healthy, and performed better academically.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 95%; rating input score 95; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.3%; rating input score 95; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
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: 3.2%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $250.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $607K · 32 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.2M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 323 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 198 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.