Feeding Westchester Inc.

“Form 990 is prepared by an outside accounting firm. After the audit and finance committees have reviewed form 990, it is submitted to board members for review and recomendations are presented prior to submission.”

“The organization currently has in place a conflict of interest policy which it annually monitors and enforces. The board currently mandates that all members of management and the governing body annually sign a conflict of interest policy and disclose any potential or actual conflicts that may exist. If a potential or actual conflict of interest exists, the member of the board will be notified immediately for appropriate action.”

“The board determines compensation by reviewing appropriate and adequate data to determine the reasonableness of compensation being considered upon hiring and then reviewed annually. The decision is adequately documented annually in the minutes of the organization.”

“The organization 990 is available for public inspection on guidestar.org and charitiesnys.com . In addition, form 990,financial statements and other policies of the the organization are available on feedingwestchester.org and upon request.”

“The emergency food distribution program - this is the core program for feeding westchester. It provides over 90 percent of the food distributed to over 300 front line hunger relief programs to some of the 200,000 westchester residents who are hungry or at risk of hunger. This program is made up of the following activities: collection, warehousing and distribution of food to member programs to be given out as cooked meals or bags of groceries to hungry westchester residents. Mobile food pantry - a program to distribute a variety of nutritious foods at an agreed-upon site. Fresh market - a program designed to serve large amounts of produce to food deserts with a farmer's market style distribution senior grocery - a program to distribute produce with specific focus on seniors. Retail recovery program- a program which collects food from local supermarkets, retailers and wholesalers that would have otherwise gone to landfills. Project green thumb - aprogram that weekly distributes of a minimum of 2,200 bags of produce consisting of 4 vegetables and 2 fruits, with enough produce for a family of four for 3-5 days. In the fiscal year ended june 30, 2020 the feeding westchester distributed 16.5 million pounds of food.”

“Direct special event expenses 24,074 direct special event expenses -24,074”