The Hunger Coalition of the Lowcountry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273106509
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Hilton Head, SC, USA
- Phone
- 7702413391
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $169,131
- Expenses
- $155,769
- Assets
- $284,312
- Liabilities
- $9,933
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- JIM WOOD (DIRECTOR)
- PAT GIULLIANI (DIRECTOR)
- JOHN PRANGE (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary purpose of the organization is to end childhood hunger in the hilton head island community. The organization, through its backpack buddies and fresh produce programs, provides food, snacks, and fresh produce to early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school children during the school year. During the summer and at after-school programs, it provides fresh produce for the children to take home to their families and healthy snacks at summer school programs. In addition, it provides holiday gift bags, grocery gift cards, and scholastic books to the children and their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
The fresh produce program provided fruit, vegetables, and grocery gift cards for approximately 170 children at after school programs and schools during the 2023-2024 school year and summer. The organization provided approximately $33,000 of grocery gift cards to needy students and their families during the extended winter break. Middle and high school students received thak-home packages throughout the school year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 99.6%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.4% of revenue deployed · 99.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $155K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.