Southside Community Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310923342
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,380
- Expenses
- $52,975
- Assets
- $118,343
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lori Veisz (Interim Board President)
People named in this filing
- Lori Veisz (Interim Board President)
- Mary Kelly (Operations Mgr Board Treasurer)
- Ruth Ann Farthing (Board 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
An all-volunteer food pantry located in and focused on serving the south side of Columbus OH - provides a 3-day supply of food to individuals and families in need. SSCM distributed boxed non-perishable food and fresh produce three days a month.
What it reported doing in 2025
Distributed non-perishable food produce milk diapers pet food and toiletries to 1,564 families - June 1 2025 to May 31 2026.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.2%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.