Nourishnj Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223084025
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dover, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9732670709
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Congregate Meals
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,677,892
- Expenses
- $3,553,355
- Assets
- $4,077,508
- Liabilities
- $739,630
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TERESA DUCHESNEAU (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- TERESA DUCHESNEAU (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $194,944 total reported compensation
- DAVE BEIN (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $162,285 total reported compensation
- JAMES COLLINS (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER (THROUGH 5/31/24)): $48,462 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nourish.nj provides immediate access to healthy food as the first step toward a stable future. As a center of support, we connect our neighbors to essential community resources and provide direct services to address the root causes of hunger.
What it reported doing in 2024
Nourish.nj is proud to provide the most comprehensive approach to addressing hunger and its root causes in morris county. For more than 40 years, we continue to achieve these goals through meals, addressing food insecurity as a whole, tackling housing challenges, and providing resource navigation that sparks hope. We strive for our guests to get to a stable place and stay there.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $195K · 14 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.