Charity profile · Historical source record

FareStart

EIN 91-1546757Human Services Washington Large

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Great food. Better lives.

FareStart provides a community that transforms lives by empowering homeless and disadvantaged men, women, and families to achieve self-sufficiency through life skills, job training and employment in the food service industry.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

92.91Overall score
out of 100

89.98Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$19,563,851

Total expenses · USD$19,123,764

Program expenses

$14,572,308.17 recorded amount

76.2%

Fundraising expenses

$1,969,747.69 recorded amount

10.3%

Administrative expenses

$2,562,584.38 recorded amount

13.4%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.18 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Megan Karch
Recorded compensation: $237,916.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.24%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

Exact source strings are retained below, including numeric precision. A blank value is marked as not reported; zero remains zero.

All 23 original fields for FareStart
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Human Services
`description` Mission & description	FareStart provides a community that transforms lives by empowering homeless and disadvantaged men, women, and families to achieve self-sufficiency through life skills, job training and employment in the food service industry.
`ein` EIN	91-1546757
`tot_exp` Total expenses	19123764.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.134
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.18
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.10300000000000001
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.762
`fscore` Financial score	89.98
`leader` Recorded leader	Megan Karch
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	237916.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0124
`motto` Tagline	Great food. Better lives.
`name` Charity name	FareStart
`tot_rev` Total revenue	19563851.0
`score` Overall score	92.91
`state` State code	WA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Social Services
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	14572308.168
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	1969747.6920000003
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	2562584.376

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 91-1546757
Source category: Human Services
Source subcategory: Social Services
Recorded location: Washington (WA)
Expense-based size: Large
Above $13.5M in total expenses · source label: big

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.