Vetri Foundation for Children

What it reported doing in 2024

Vetri community partnership nourishes minds, bodies, and communities with nutrition education through cooking. Our core services offer hands-on cooking and tasting opportunities of recipes that are nutritious, vegetable-focused, affordable, and, most importantly, delicious. We inspire people of all ages to develop the knowledge and confidence to make nutritious choices and build life skills for a healthier future. Continued on schedule ovcp's nutrition education services take place in school and community settings, as well as our own teaching kitchen, to build culinary confidence and encourage cooking at home. We are committed to providing approachable and accessible programs for people of all ages that foster a sense of belonging for members of our community. During fy25, vcp hosted 1,545 workshops leading to over 30,000 experiences for participants to cook or taste a nutrient-dense and delicious recipe. Our five core services are supplemental nutrition education program-education (snap-ed), vetri cooking lab, mobile teaching kitchen, culinary medicine, and teaching kitchen. As a contracted local partner of Pennsylvania snap-ed, we aim to improve the likelihood that families eligible for snap benefits can make healthy food choices within a limited budget. Vetri community partnership's snap-ed team works with schools on evidence-based systems and environmental changes that help families make healthy choices with programming that takes place during the school day for students with additional family and caregiver activities taking place during out of school hours. During fy25, vetri community partnership snap-ed educators hosted 779 cooking classes with 15,236 experiences for school-aged and adult participants. Vetri cooking lab is an out-of-school time cooking program that inspires students to develop the knowledge and confidence to make nutritious choices and build life skills for a healthier future. This weekly, curriculum-based program engages students in hands-on cooking paired with important nutrition lessons like eating a rainbow, reading nutrition labels, and incorporating "any vegetable, any way." participants work together to build recipes, taste their creations, and share their opinions on what they like, what they'd change, and ways they would make it for their families. Vetri cooking lab empowers young people to become mindful and educated food consumers by increasing exposure to nutritious foods, practical cooking skills, and nutritional knowledge. During fy25, vetri cooking lab educators led 433 workshops that created 4,698 opportunities for student engagement after school and in the summer. Mobile teaching kitchen is a community nutrition program that brings nutritious and delicious recipe samplings and cooking demonstrations to food distribution sites, food pantries, and farmers markets in the philadelphia region. The program offers educational resources, recipes, and the opportunity for participants to taste recipes made with what is available for purchase or selection that day. Our goal is for residents in every community to feel confident that cooking at home will lead to a nourishing and delicious dish. During fy25, mobile teaching kitchen educators hosted 160 demonstrations and tastings leading to 6,904 opportunities for participant engagement. Culinary medicine is an integration of food, medicine, and wellness that supports community health through culinary education. With culinary medicine, patients, practitioners, and medical students develop practical cooking skills while preparing recipes tailored to support specific health populations. Medical education classes empower current and future physicians to apply the principles of food as medicine into their practice while practicing empathy and respect for social determinants of health. Community-based culinary medicine classes engage patients and members of the public to develop and enhance their own cooking skills, utilizing recipes to support their pers

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 71.8%; rating input score 72
• Program expense ratio: 72.6%; rating input score 73
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th 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: Limited
• 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: 6.3%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings