Kids' Meals
Meets Standards
Standards For Charity Accountability
Governance
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Board Oversight
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Board Size
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Board Meetings
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Board Compensation
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Conflict of Interest
Measuring Effectiveness
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Effectiveness Policy
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Effectiveness Report
Finances
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Program Expenses
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Fundraising Expenses
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Accumulating Funds
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Audit Report
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Detailed Expense Breakdown
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Accurate Expense Reporting
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Budget Plan
Fundraising & Info
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Truthful Materials
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Annual Report
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Website Disclosures
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Donor Privacy
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Cause Marketing Disclosures
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Complaints
Kids' Meals meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.
Stated Purpose:
Our mission is to end childhood hunger by delivering free healthy meals to the doorsteps of Houston's hungriest preschool-aged children and through collaboration provide their families with resources to help end the cycle of poverty. Kids' Meals is a first-responder to children ages five years old and under facing debilitating hunger due to extreme poverty.
Year, State Incorporated:
1991, TX
Kids Meals is a first-responder to children ages five-years-old and under facing debilitating hunger due to abject poverty. Every weekday, year-round, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., volunteers prepare thousands of healthy lunches consisting of a sandwich, snack and 100% juice or milk.
Our thirteen vans deliver the meals Monday through Friday to children enrolled in our program. We currently have six routes that target zip codes where the need is critical in Harris County and Montgomery County. In 2021, Kids' Meals delivered over 1.8 million lunches to children.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, Kids' Meals's program expenses were:
| Program services | $7,273,964 |
| Total Program Expenses | $7,273,964 |
Chair of the Board
Michael Magilton
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Encino Energy
Board Size
29
Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Invitations to fund raising events, Print advertisements (newspapers, magazines, etc.), Television, Grant proposals, Planned giving arrangements, Cause-related marketing (affinity credit cards, consumer product sales, etc.)
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 Kids' Meals's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Source of Funds
| Public support - Contributions | $12,525,434 |
| Donated food | $2,291,848 |
| Special events (net of $384,930 expenses) | $771,091 |
| Other revenues: Interest income | $288,728 |
| Investment income, net | $282,128 |
| Other income | $1,984 |
| Total Income | $16,161,213 |
Programs: 80% Fundraising: 12% Administrative: 8%
| Total Income | $16,161,213 |
| Total expenses: | $9,055,910 |
| Program expenses | $7,273,964 |
| Fundraising expenses | $1,046,092 |
| Administrative expenses | $735,854 |
| Other expenses | $0 |
| Income in Excess of Expenses | $7,105,303 |
| Beginning Net Assets | $28,464,706 |
| Other Changes In Net Assets | $0 |
| Ending Net Assets | $35,570,009 |
| Total Liabilities | $36,630,045 |
| Total Assets | $72,200,054 |
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Report completed by:
BBB of Greater Houston and South Texas