San Antonio Food Bank
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742122979
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, United States
- Phone
- 210-337-3663
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $210,703,890
- Expenses
- $207,708,479
- Assets
- $116,887,853
- Liabilities
- $32,243,164
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC S COOPER (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- MONICA BORREGO-JONES (NBFB EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC S COOPER (PRESIDENT/CEO): $536,868 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL GUERRA (CDO): $330,280 total reported compensation
- KEVIN BROWN (CFO): $283,777 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the San Antonio Food Bank is to fight hunger in Southwest Texas through food distribution, programs, education, and advocacy. Our team is comprised of professionals from a variety of industries, backgrounds, and stages in their careers. As we grow, we are in search of energetic and motivated individuals to join us in our mission to help fight hunger and feed hope in our community. When you join the San Antonio Food Bank you’re joining a group of hunger fighters dedicated to to eliminating hunger in our community. Full-time benefits offered:. This versatile space can accommodate up to 300 guests for meetings or events, providing a dynamic setting for gatherings of all kinds. We welcome our community and business partners to reserve the space and enhance their experience by adding a guided tour or a hands-on service project, fostering a deeper connection to our mission...
What it reported doing in 2024
Benefits assistance, food assistance and distributions, hunters for the hungry, job training, community wellness education, farmers markets, mobile mercado, programs for children, programs for seniors and pet programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 84% of its reported program spending out as 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 96.7%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $76.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 96.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $201M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $537K · 38 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $6M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 439 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 233 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.