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Houston Food Bank

EIN 74-2181456Human Services Texas Large

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Filling pantries. Filling lives.

The Houston Food Bank is a solution to both hunger and food waste. In the year following hurricane Harvey the Food Bank distributed 122 million nutritious meals through its network of 1,500 community partners, including food pantries, soup kitchens, social service providers, and schools in southeast Texas. We distribute fresh produce, meat and nonperishables from our warehouse where we also prepare nutritious hot meals for kids in our new state-of-the-art Keegan Kitchen. We rescue food before it reaches the landfill through our Retail Pickup program with area grocery stores. Additional community services include nutrition education and SNAP (formerly food stamps) application assistance. We feed hungry people in 18-county service area alongside our partner food banks in Montgomery County, Galveston and Brazos Valley. The Houston Food Bank, founded in 1982, is a certified member of Feeding America, the nation's food bank network, with a four-star rating from Charity Navigator.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

97.10Overall score
out of 100

95.91Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$210,380,616

Total expenses · USD$204,124,432

Program expenses

$196,571,828.02 recorded amount

96.3%

Fundraising expenses

$3,265,990.91 recorded amount

1.6%

Administrative expenses

$3,878,364.21 recorded amount

1.9%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.01 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Brian Greene
Recorded compensation: $264,462.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 0.12%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Houston Food Bank
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Human Services
`description` Mission & description	The Houston Food Bank is a solution to both hunger and food waste. In the year following hurricane Harvey the Food Bank distributed 122 million nutritious meals through its network of 1,500 community partners, including food pantries, soup kitchens, social service providers, and schools in southeast Texas. We distribute fresh produce, meat and nonperishables from our warehouse where we also prepare nutritious hot meals for kids in our new state-of-the-art Keegan Kitchen. We rescue food before it reaches the landfill through our Retail Pickup program with area grocery stores. Additional community services include nutrition education and SNAP (formerly food stamps) application assistance. We feed hungry people in 18-county service area alongside our partner food banks in Montgomery County, Galveston and Brazos Valley. The Houston Food Bank, founded in 1982, is a certified member of Feeding America, the nation's food bank network, with a four-star rating from Charity Navigator.
`ein` EIN	74-2181456
`tot_exp` Total expenses	204124432.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.019
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.01
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.016
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.963
`fscore` Financial score	95.91
`leader` Recorded leader	Brian Greene
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	264462.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0012
`motto` Tagline	Filling pantries. Filling lives.
`name` Charity name	Houston Food Bank
`tot_rev` Total revenue	210380616.0
`score` Overall score	97.1
`state` State code	TX
`subcategory` Subcategory	Food Banks, Food Pantries, and Food Distribution
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	196571828.016
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	3265990.912
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	3878364.208

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 74-2181456
Source category: Human Services
Source subcategory: Food Banks, Food Pantries, and Food Distribution
Recorded location: Texas (TX)
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.