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CHARITY REVIEW
Issued: January 2026 Expires: January 2028

Shared Harvest Foodbank, Inc.

Accredited Charity
Accredited Charity

Meets Standards
(513) 874-0114
5901 Dixie Highway
Fairfield, OH, 45014
https://www.sharedharvest.org/
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Governance

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  2. Board Size
  3. Board Meetings
  4. Board Compensation
  5. Conflict of Interest

Measuring Effectiveness

  1. Effectiveness Policy
  2. Effectiveness Report

Finances

  1. Program Expenses
  2. Fundraising Expenses
  3. Accumulating Funds
  4. Audit Report
  5. Detailed Expense Breakdown
  6. Accurate Expense Reporting
  7. Budget Plan

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  2. Annual Report
  3. Website Disclosures
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Shared Harvest Foodbank, Inc. meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Stated Purpose:
To find, rescue, and distribute food to people living in poverty through an efficient network; to unite the public and private sectors; to raise awareness about the impact of poverty.

Year, State Incorporated:
1984, OH

Shared Harvest Foodbank takes a comprehensive approach to local hunger relief. Programs are focused on both short-term and long-term strategies to reduce the meal gap throughout a five-county region. The core program, Foodbanking, is a collaborative partnership with more than 100 charities throughout southwest Ohio to provide bags of groceries or hot meals to people in need. These services are administered through either a Choice Pantry food distribution model (a pantry designed like a grocery store that offers families the option to choose grocery items according to their family's needs), or a pre-pack pantry model where food is prepacked and distributed, or through community meals offered in soup kitchens and shelters. 

Even with all the work charitable food distribution does to address food insecurity, it only provides a short-term solution.  A longer-term solution is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) formerly known as the Food Stamp Program.  Our own studies show that virtually all the people standing in line at our partner food pantries are eligible for SNAP benefits, but less than half have even applied for the program.  To reduce some of the barriers as well as provide program education, we have our SNAP Outreach program which places our staff in Choice Food Pantries, primarily, with the goal of helping potential participants apply for SNAP benefits right then and there.

We realize that all the effort we put into this comprehensive approach to reducing hunger by rescuing food from the food industry, utilizing public programs and partnering with a broad array of charitable food providers, is a short-term solution.  To truly eliminate hunger, we must work to shift public policies that can address the root causes of poverty: education, employment at living wages, safe affordable housing, mass transit, affordable health care, etc. We developed an advocacy program designed to engage others to participate in calls to action for local, regional, statewide and national policy legislation that will greatly help reduce the meal gap.

For the year ended June 30, 2025, Shared Harvest Foodbank, Inc.'s program expenses were:

Food banking $17,460,437
Senior food program $3,412,456
Childhood food program $1,102,891
SNAP outreach $101,076
Total Program Expenses $22,076,860

Chief Executive
Terry Perdue, Executive Director

Chair of the Board
Patricia Plavko

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Frost Brown Todd LLC

Board Size
11

Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Print advertisements (newspapers, magazines, etc.), Television

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Shared Harvest Foodbank, Inc.'s audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2025.

Source of Funds
In-kind food contribution $19,395,480
Contributions $1,761,232
Government grants $996,946
Member agency contract revenue, net $357,358
Investment activity, net $177,543
United Ways $45,646
Miscellaneous $12,885
Loss on disposal of property and equipment $-25,954
Total Income $22,721,136

Programs: 97% Fundraising: 1% Administrative: 2%

Total Income $22,721,136
Total expenses: $22,662,115
  Program expenses $22,076,860
  Fundraising expenses $242,160
  Administrative expenses $343,095
  Other expenses $0
Income in Excess of Expenses $59,021
Beginning Net Assets $9,620,685
Other Changes In Net Assets $0
Ending Net Assets $9,679,706
Total Liabilities $104,463
Total Assets $9,784,169

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