Share Our Strength

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521367538
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2021
Location
Washington, DC, US
Phone
(800) 222-1767
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$89,894,889
Expenses
$83,578,191
Assets
$74,497,100
Liabilities
$17,328,783

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

34 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Anne Elizabeth Filipic (CEO)
  • Charles Scofield (Executive Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • William H Shore (Founder, Executive Chair, Director): $742,340 total reported compensation
  • Anne Elizabeth Filipic (CEO): $472,444 total reported compensation
  • Julie Chen (SVP and General Counsel (until 8/24)): $313,013 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We’re helping kids, families and communities through our No Kid Hungry campaign – and working on the root causes of hunger to create more financial security for families.

What it reported doing in 2024

Today 14 million kids live in families that struggle with hunger. Share Our Strength is the only national nonprofit dedicated to ending child hunger in America. For over 40 years, we have been guided by one clear vision-to create an equitable nation where all children, families and communities have the nutrition and resources they need to thrive. We work to reduce child hunger by: providing grants for child nutrition programs; advocating for strong federal and state nutrition programs; providing technical, outreach, and regulatory guidance; and hosting opportunities for nutrition leaders to share solutions. To reduce summer hunger, we supported expansion of the Summer EBT (SUN Bucks) grocery benefits program and summer meal services in rural areas. We supported 40 states, Tribal Nations, and DC in operating Summer EBT programs and granted $3.1 million to help rural summer meal programs in 28 states and Puerto Rico. To help feed school kids, we granted over $1.3 million to 43 school districts in 12 states to support access to breakfast, enabling school districts to reach an additional 32,500 students in 279 schools.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.8%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 58.7%; rating input score 59
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 55.8% of revenue deployed · 58.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $49.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $742K · 34 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $16.1M reported
  • Consistency: 47 of 47 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 326 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 303 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.