Produce Perks

Legal name: Produce Perks Midwest Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
475000763
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Cincinnati, OH, US
Phone
(513) 769-7375
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$1,111,254
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MATT STEPHENS (PRESIDENT/CEO)
  • TEVIS FOREMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • MATT STEPHENS (PRESIDENT/CEO)
  • TEVIS FOREMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • SISTER ANNIE KLAPHEKE (SECRETARY)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Produce Perks is Ohio's Nutrition Incentive program - empowering families to make healthy food choices. We match SNAP/EBT benefits dollar-for-dollar when spent on fruits and vegetables.

What it reported doing in 2025

Produce perks midwest's mission is to improve the health of underserved communities by increasing affordable access to healthy foods. Our work increases accessibility, affordability, purchasing and consumption of fruits and vegetables for low-income individuals and households alike; in addition to individuals experiencing nutrition, diet-related illness, chronic disease, and food insecure pregnant women. Additionally, our work directly strengthens local food systems and stimulates local food economies; supporting local farmers and small-market retailers. Produce perks midwest serves as Ohio's lead agency administering nutrition incentive programming statewide. Our nutrition incentive programs are evidence-based and nationally recongized for creating on-the-ground impact in the daily lives of those we serve. In 2024, our nutrition incentive programming was operational at approximately 150 locations statewide, supporting over $2.5 million in healthy food purchases for low-income consumers. These dollars are going directly into local food economies, supporting local, small-market farmers and retailers across Ohio - all while hellping struggling ohioans put healthy food on the table.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 75
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.