Part of the Solution
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133425071
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bronx, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7182204892
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Soup Kitchens
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,021,676
- Expenses
- $10,433,955
- Assets
- $23,761,081
- Liabilities
- $3,549,986
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTINA HANSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTINA HANSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $214,241 total reported compensation
- ANN MARIE MACDONALD (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $195,086 total reported compensation
- KELLY GARVEY (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT): $184,514 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pots is a loving community in the bronx striving to serve all who come to our doors. From meeting immediate needs to offering long-term comprehensive services, we partner with each individual to empower them to reach their potential.
What it reported doing in 2025
Food service programs - these programs are funded by a combination of individual, corporate, foundation, and government income. It consists of a pantry service provided to community residents of the surrounding area of the organization located in bronx, New York. The pantry service provides groceries and nutritious food to these residents. The food pantry provided over 2.8 million meals in 2025. It also consists of a community kitchen that serves meals to all those in need that pass through the doors of the organization. The community kitchen served over 250,000 meals in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 64th 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: 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: 13.2%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.28; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.3% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $214K · 34 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.