Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Summer food service program in 2025, the summer food service program sfsp provided over 19,650 meals to an average of 292 needy children a day at 20 feeding sites throughout westmoreland county. Wcfb continues to sponsor this valuable program each summer to provide proper nutrition and teach good eating habits to disadvantaged children. Backpack program westmoreland county food bank resurrected this program in an effort to simplify the process for children at select sites to receive a weekend backpack. Westmoreland county food bank worked with value added foods to supply pre-packed meal kits. The kits include a two-day supply of food and the packs are generally distributed at the end of each week during the school year. In 2024-2025 westmoreland county food bank supplied an average of 850 weekend meal kits a week to students at 16 sites - derry middle school, monessen elementary school, monessen middle school, ramsay elementary school in mt. Pleasant, h.w. Good elementary school in west newton, marian elementary school in rostraver, westmoreland career & technical center in new stanton, grandview elementary in derry, mt. Pleasant jr/sr high school, westmoreland intermediate unit, donegal elementary, stanwood elementary, seton hill child services in irwin, greensburg, new kensington and jeannette. Recipients are identified by the schools and participants qualify based on their eligibility for the national school lunch program. The backpack program is available based on funding. Military share program in 2014, feeding america released the hunger in america national study and revealed that, one in five, 20% of households served by the feeding america network has at least one member that has served in the military. Here at home, 1015 individuals served by the westmoreland county food bank last year identified themselves as veterans. Our military families are frequently overlooked for many public assistance programs, yet they are most often those who need aid the most. In our pursuit to end hunger here at home, the westmoreland county food bank launched the military share program in 2016. The new program supplied a limited number of military families in westmoreland county with a box of fresh, frozen, and non- perishable food items. The food bank worked with representatives from the Pennsylvania national guard family assistance center to deliver this much needed aid. In 2025, there were seventeen distributions that served 1,999 households at 9 different sites which led to the distribution of 158,581 pounds of food. Mobile market mobile market is our newest program that began in october of 2022. This program is a traveling mobile pantry that delivers food, free of charge, directly to communities that are located in areas that have low access to food. Westmoreland county food bank has had 113 distributions at housing sites and some of the local colleges throughout westmoreland county. The program has distributed a total of 81,706 pounds of food to nearly 7,776 household members.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
• Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
• Fundraising efficiency: $23.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 17.9%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings