Salt of the Earth Food Blessing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911462111
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Arlington, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4254703851
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,508
- Expenses
- $118,931
- Assets
- $161,113
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vincent Cork (President)
- Blaine Chesterfield (Vice President)
- Alyson Cork (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Vincent Cork (President)
- Blaine Chesterfield (Vice President)
- Jamie Stupey (Director/Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Food bank
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Salt of the Earth Food Blessing distributed 1,208,900 lbs of food to more than 74,450 individuals making up 13,170 families. We distribute food to those in need 7 days a week through store pickups which totaled 2028 store pickups.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $120K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.