Pfood Pfairness in Pflugerville Schools

What it reported doing in 2025

Pfood Pfairness funded lunch accounts for Pflugerville ISD students to cover the cost of hot meals, ensuring they did not receive the alternative cold, cheese sandwich the district serves if money is owed. At the beginning of 2025, to qualify for free lunch, the household monthly income limit was $3,483 for a family of four. The limit includes everyone in the household, including a teenager who works, and it is the same in every state, not taking into consideration cost of living differences. Students helped are in financial need but do not receive the assistance they need from the free and reduced lunch program, usually because of a household income just out of qualifying range. Accounts were funded at least every two weeks, helping an average of 432 students each time. Some families reach out to us directly for debt assistance and others are brought to our attention by the school district with identifying student information redacted due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Because we are blind to all information except campus attended and debt amount, we cannot differentiate families receiving repeated help from those who only receive it once. Throughout 2025, a total of $20,649.74 was added for students across 6,271 account credits on 18 different funding days from January to May and then again from August through December. Though it's possible each account credit ensured hot lunches for different students, a more feasible estimate is that 700-800 were provided funds for meals. Over this time, funding for 34,100 hot meals was provided for students across 27 campuses--11,899 lunches at the high school level, 4,281 in middle school, and 14,740 at the elementary level. Prior to Pfood Pfairness' intervention, these students were either receiving a cold cheese sandwich for lunch and suffering the humiliation of having their entree replaced in front of their peers, or they were avoiding lunch completely, preferring hunger over embarrassment. Many of these students come from low-income families and are considered at risk, and some are even athletes trying to make the entire school day and after school practice or a game with just the free breakfast to sustain them. Providing these children with a hot meal and the nourishment they need to be successful in school, academically and otherwise, while also sparing them the social consequences of receiving the alternative lunch, is Pfood Pfairness' primary mission. Because funding to provide debt relief and funding to provide future meals for students happen concurrently, there is no way to allocate program service expenses to them individually. Subsequently, program service expenses for lunch funding assistance are estimated and were calculated by using the ratio of money used to ensure hot meals to total grants.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 1.5%; rating input score 1
• Program expense ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 2

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 30.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -45.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 53.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings