The Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463773017
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Essex, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8603881988
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,233,446
- Expenses
- $1,976,873
- Assets
- $3,506,177
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- REV AMY HOLLIS (Executive Dir.): $99,710 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 shoreline soup kitchens & pantries is an interfaith service that provides food and fellowship to those in need and educates the community on hunger and poverty.
What it reported doing in 2024
The shoreline soup kitchens and pantries, inc. Distributed 1,095,158 meals to individuals and families during 2024. This included 1,076,796 meals from our grocery distribution sites and 18,362 meals served at area community meal sites. The shoreline soup kitchens and pantries, inc. Offers food and fellowship to the communities of chester, clinton, deep river, east lyme, essex, killingworth, lyme, madison, old lyme, old saybrook, and westbrook, Connecticut. Our community oriented meal sites serving hot, nutritious and delicious food are located in centerbrook, chester, clinton, deep river, essex, old saybrook, and westbrook. Our grocery distribution sites, where participants receive enough food for three meals for three days, are located in clinton, old lyme, old saybrook, westbrook, and east lyme. The sskp backpack support program helps children access food on weekends and school breaks. Non-perishable foods (breakfast foods, drinks, fruit, snacks, and ready-to-eat meals) are provided free-of cost to backpack programs at nine area schools. The shoreline soup kitchens accomplishes its goals with the help of approximately 700 volunteers who provided over 37,000 volunteer hours in 2024. We provide those in need with food and fellowship, responding to all with humanity and respect.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 78% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 69%; rating input score 69; 18th 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.