The Community Table
Legal name: The Community Table Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391770259
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States
- Phone
- (715) 835-4977
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $974,861
- Expenses
- $728,401
- Assets
- $1,338,713
- Liabilities
- $444,625
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RYAN ERICKSON (PRESIDENT)
- LEAH MOTSCHENBACHER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TASHAI ATKINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- TASHAI ATKINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $80,790 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 Community Table serves free, nutritious meals to anyone in need, 365 days a year, while engaging volunteers and fostering partnerships to address food insecurity in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
What it reported doing in 2024
Meal service - provides hot meals at no cost to low-income individuals. In 2024, tct was able to serve 31,089 meals. The main experience tct provides is volunteerism. Volunteers come in every day of the year for a meal service. Volunteering allows the volunteers and patrons to make connections and have conversations they might not have experienced without tct. Tct also provides a learning experience for both volunteers, staff and patrons. With the continuous flow of new volunteers coming in, tct participants are able to learn from each other. Whether this is a volunteer learning about resources in town who may also need their help, to patrons making connections with volunteers, tct alllows organic communication and connections to grow. More than 9,561 volunteer hours were complete at tct in 2024. Tct has a partnership with the university of Wisconsin-eau claire. Tct takes college students in need of an internship and gives them unique opportunities which come from working with a non-profit. These students are getting degrees in marketing, communications, graphic design, hospitality and social work. Students are able to work to gain professional experience that will aid them with graduating with applicable knowledge for real-world scenarios.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.3%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.3%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.84; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 57.3% of revenue deployed · 75.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $553K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 57/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.