Usana Kids Eat
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863057706
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8019547100
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,005,800
- Expenses
- $1,207,164
- Assets
- $978,019
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian Paul (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Brian Paul (President): $257,732 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
USANA Kids Eat provides the framework to combat hunger, remove meal uncertainty, and challenge the community to join our cause. We develop powerful partnerships within the community so we can provide a stable source of food, helping kids reach their fullest potential. Because no child should ever go hungry.
What it reported doing in 2024
USANA Kids Eat ("Kids Eat") provides food bags filled with select non-perishable, easily prepared foods to ensure kids get enough to eat when they cannot depend on school meals. During 2024, with the help of 4,502 volunteers, Kids Eat served 99 schools and other organizations, which impacted 10,583 individual children. During 2024, Kids Eat distributed approximately 56,311 food bags, including 51,283 bags for the weekend program and 5,018 bags for the holiday program (larger bags for extended school break). All together, these bags provided over 560,101 meals during 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 55
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $258K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 53 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.