Tarrant Area Food Bank

What it reported doing in 2024

Educational and outreach programs in fy25, our community nutrition team conducted nutrition education programs across our service area teaching neighbors how to cook nutritiously and grow their own food. Our community garden and farm programs supported over 60 partner gardens, and we harvested more than 34 tons of fresh produce for local neighbors and partner agencies. Tafb offers warehouse logistics job training graduates that links graduates with vetted employer partners who pay a living wage, offer healthcare benefits, and have career advancement opportunities. Healthcare partnerships in fy25, we developed new and deepened existing new healthcare partnerships with hospital systems medical clinics, and health plans. We continued our food box home delivery program for homebound patients, and established a healthcare referral process connecting patients to community resources such as snap, wic, and medicaid. Tafb's registered dietitians provided nutritonal guidance, and supported healthcare providers' utilization of food insecurity screenings and referral processes to ensure their patients are connected to food and nutrition resources. Food is medicine in fy25, tafb continued its food rx program, a healthcare- community partnership addressing food insecurity as a critical social determinant of health. The six-month program delivered a holistic intervention to 97 participants with chronic conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure. It distributed a total of 2,522 produce and medically tailored grocery boxes, and delivered nearly 50,000 healthy meals produced by the community kitchen for food rx participants and the broader community. Veteran programs tafb serves those who serve our country by providing food, nutrition education, garden programs and community resources at veteran affairs clinics and the naval air station joint reserve base. Older adult programs seniors are one of the more vulnerable populations served by tafb. With many seniors living on a fixed income, this population can struggle to make ends meet each month. Tafb offers two programs specifically for seniors to ensure they have access to healthy food. Senior shares provide a farmer's market style of distribution to seniors at community centers, churches, and senior housing complexes. The commodity supplemental food program (csfp), is a federally funded food distribution effort that provides a monthly box of food to low-income seniors to improve their health, nutrition, and well-being. Csfp started at tarrant area food bank in 2022 and grew in 2025 to serve 2,164 30lb boxes of food monthly, 25,968 annually, equating to 649,200 meals, each month, and serves more than 2,000 seniors in our service area.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
• Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
• Fundraising efficiency: $58.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 2.5%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings