Punks With Lunch Lansing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842357012
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- (517) 657-1959
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $351,688
- Expenses
- $281,016
- Assets
- $106,190
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Julia Miller (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Julia Miller (Executive Director): $51,600 total reported compensation
- Maddy Corbin (Finance Manager): $14,418 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Punks With Lunch Lansing responds to people experiencing hunger, homelessness, or substance use with a judgment-free approach—providing essential resources without requiring sobriety, paperwork, or explanations when someone is hungry, cold, sick, or in crisis. We do not make assumptions about why someone needs support. We do not rank worthiness. We do not require sobriety, paperwork, or explanations. If someone comes to us hungry, cold, sick, or in crisis, we respond. Some of the people we serve use drugs. Some are in recovery. Some are navigating mental health challenges. Some are just trying to survive another day. Our role is not to judge or control. Our role is to reduce harm, share information, and help people stay alive. Our values are not abstract. They are practiced every day. Love, acceptance, grace, inclusion, and forgiveness show up in how we talk to people, how we hire...
What it reported doing in 2024
Organized outreach at Reutter Park to provide sack lunches and supplies to folks experiencing homelessness in the City of Lansing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 64% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 53
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 56.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 85.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $244K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $52K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.