St. Joseph Food Program Inc.

“Board members are provide a complete copy of form 990 for review and comment prior to submitting the return.”

“The organization has a requirement by all board members to disclose conflict of interests. If there are any that arrive the conflicts will be addressed by the governance committee for resolution.”

“There is no compensation paid to board members. All employees are reveiwed for job performance and the governence committee makes recommendations to the board of directors regarding compensation.”

“Employees are reviewed for job performance and salaries annnully. The governance committeed reviews the employees with the assistance of the executive director and makes recommendations to the board of directors.”

“Annual report and independent auditors report is available on entities website. Additional information is provided on request.”

“The program receives donated food from grocery stores, restaurants, vending machine companies and food drives organized by community organizations and provides education to its clients. In addition, the program utilized 779,267 of its gross revenues to purchase additional food. All food donated to or acquired by the food program is distributed to clients who have qualified for the program through careful screening which has established that their income is below the federal poverty level. No value is reflected in the statements for volunteer time. The food program distributes food monday and wednesday 9ama-12pm, tuesday and thursday 11am-1pm and on monday evenings from 4:30p.m. To 6:30p.m. The number of client families served per day varies, apporximately 150 to 200. Approximately 2,711 households were served during 2023. The program has two full time and six part-time paid employees. The program has approximately 282 regular volunteers from throughout the area who serve as drivers, sorters, distributors, interviewers, record keepers, supervisors, and directors. It takes 15 to 20 volunteers to run the program every day. A board of directors, consisting of volunteers plus one of the paid employees, oversee the program.”