Northwest Harvest
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
Northwest Harvest meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.
Stated Purpose:
The mission of Northwest Harvest is to provide nutritious food to hungry people statewide in a manner that respects their dignity, while fighting to eliminate hunger. Their vision is that ample nutritious food is available to everyone in Washington State.
Year, State Incorporated:
1975, WA
Also Known As:
Cherry Street Food Bank Northwest Harvest/E.M.M.
Northwest Harvest builds partnerships
in communities across Washington to get food where it’s needed most. We provide
an average of two million meals each month through our statewide network of 375
food banks, meal programs, and high-need schools. Northwest Harvest provides
nutritious, culturally appropriate food to anyone in need, while respecting
people’s dignity and promoting good health.
Food Access Network, partners with 350 food banks, meal programs, and
community-based organizations statewide. These partners receive NWH food and
provide it, free of charge and with dignity, to food-insecure families in 200
Washington communities.
Three Squares, a children's food backpack program, partners
with 42 high-need schools to provide 225,000 nutritious take-home meals to
food-insecure children on weekends when no school meals are available; also
works in coalition to promote summer meal programs.
The Community Market Network project
includes SODO Community Market in Seattle, opened June 2019 and serving about
1,500 persons every week; Yakima Community Market, planned to open in March
2023; and Spokane Community Market, planned to open 2025.
The Leadership in Advocacy Fellowships program recruits persons
with lived experience of hunger, from Washington’s most food-insecure
populations, to train as Community Organizers and become first-person voice
advocates for public policy work and the Right to Food campaign.
The BIPOC Community Cash Voucher program serves BIPOC households in 17 counties and 6 Tribal lands statewide that have
been heavily impacted by COVID-19. Partnerships with over a dozen BIPOC-led
community-based organizations distribute grocery gift cards and create voucher
access to local community markets, helping families meet specific needs, since
2021.
The Focus Group program unites food
bank customers from different regions every year with legislators, agency
representatives and others to form and share policy recommendations, since
2009. The 2022 groups will include listening sessions with existing FAN
partners, and others with selected community-based organizations serving
populations with disparate rates of hunger.
The Cold Storage Access Program (Social Enterprise) at the new Yakima Distribution Center, set to open in December 2022, will offer affordable and critically needed harvest-season cold storage to the Valley’s diverse small/midlevel farmers. Several thousand chilled pallet positions will be available to help our farmer customers reduce product loss, and to link them with additional distribution opportunities.
For the year ended June 30, 2020, Northwest Harvest's program expenses were:
| Program services | $50,487,046 |
| Total Program Expenses | $50,487,046 |
Chief Executive
Thomas Reynolds, CEO
Chair of the Board
Mr. Scott McQuilkin, President
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Whitworth University
Board Size
17
Paid Staff Size
84
Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Invitations to fund raising events, Print advertisements (newspapers, magazines, etc.), Television, Radio, Grant proposals, Internet, Planned giving arrangements, Appeals via Social Media (Facebook, etc.), Solicitations for Used Cars
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 Northwest Harvest's audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2020.
Source of Funds
| Contributions of goods and services | $39,919,343 |
| Cash contributions and pledges | $31,252,667 |
| Gain on sale of property | $5,741,037 |
| Grants from government agencies | $4,284,076 |
| Investment return, net | $605,091 |
| Other revenue | $348,670 |
| Total Income | $82,150,884 |
Programs: 91% Fundraising: 5% Administrative: 4%
| Total Income | $82,150,884 |
| Total expenses: | $55,431,109 |
| Program expenses | $50,487,046 |
| Fundraising expenses | $2,798,290 |
| Administrative expenses | $2,145,773 |
| Other expenses | $0 |
| Income in Excess of Expenses | $26,719,775 |
| Beginning Net Assets | $26,371,197 |
| Other Changes In Net Assets | $0 |
| Ending Net Assets | $53,090,972 |
| Total Liabilities | $1,461,407 |
| Total Assets | $58,835,045 |
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