Salem Pantry Inc
EIN: 20-1691756
Mission
The Salem Pantry works collaboratively to empower our diverse local and regional communities by ensuring the essential right to convenient and reliable access to healthy food.
Ruling year
2009
Principal Officer
Robyn Burns
Main address
PO BOX 295
SALEM, MA 01970 USA
EIN
20-1691756
Food banks
Population served
Children and youth
Adults
Families
Economically disadvantaged people
People with disabilities
NTEE code
Food Banks, Food Pantries (K31)
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Public Charity
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Tax forms
Communication
Programs and results
Reports and documents
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Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Home Delivery Program
The Salem Pantry Home Delivery program is a service for food-insecure members of the Salem community who are physically, mentally, or emotionally unable to attend any of our mobile sites. We provide our home delivery recipients with various produce, nonperishables, and frozen proteins, such as meat, chicken, or fish. These items are delivered to their home once a week.
This service provides support for individuals requiring this service for a short period while recovering from sickness or surgery or for an extended period due to disease or disablement. We strive to work with our home delivery recipients to tailor their food items based on various chronic diseases.
We partner with Door Dash and volunteer drivers to deliver to 50 homes a week.
The Market
The Salem Pantry will open our first brick-and-mortar location in April 2023!
The Market by The Salem Pantry will provide our guests with a no-cost, dignified shopping experience. The Market will open five days a week, featuring evening and weekend hours to serve our diverse guests best. Guests of The Market will be able to shop from a wide range of dairy, fresh produce, nonperishables, and protein options.
In addition to providing a consistent location for our guests to receive fresh, healthy food, guests can also visit the Market for services beyond food. The Salem Pantry is currently working with The Salem Skipper and The Salem Council on Aging to provide transportation to The Market.
In addition, The Salem Pantry will continue to operate our longstanding mobile distribution program. This program, in partnership with community partners, provides reliable food access for students, residents, and clients.
Mobile Distribution
The Salem Pantry currently hosts public distribution sites throughout Salem. These mobile sites are free and open to all. There are no income or location requirements to attend one of our mobile sites.
The Salem Pantry mobile sites feature an abundant selection of produce, proteins, spices, and dairy products that: Seek to reflect our community’s cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity, is sourced from local farmers, food producers, and distributors whenever possible, is nutritious and promotes physical, mental, and social well-being.
We partner with local farms and organizations such as; Mack Park Food Farm, Root North Shore, Beverly Farms Gardens, Boston Area Gleaners, and New Entry Sustainable Farming Project to bring fresh, healthy food to all mobile sites.
We work with our key host-site partners, Salem State University, North Shore Community Development Coalition, and North Shore Physicians’ Group, to facilitate this program.
Community Partnerships
We collaborate with our community partners to ensure that all in need of our food distribution services have access to them. These partnerships allow our partner’s clientele access to healthy and reliable food.
Our community partnerships allow us to learn more about the members of the communities we serve to ensure that our services reflect their needs.
We have longstanding and trusted relationships with the City of Salem, Salem State University, North Shore Physicians Group, The Salem Housing Authority, The North Shore Community Development Coalition, LifeBridge North Shore, and Salem Public Schools.
We provide mobile distributions weekly to Salem residents at housing sites throughout Salem, a weekly mobile site for students at Salem High School, and distribute food for the homeless and under-housed at LifeBridge North Shore.
Food Storage and Distribution Warehouse
The Salem Pantry’s Food Storage and Distribution Warehouse processes an average of 125,000 pounds of food each week to support Salem and the Greater North Shore. The warehouse facility maintains large capacity walk-in freezers and refrigerators and significant space for nonperishables. Our Food Acquisition and Distribution team operates our of our warehouse where they receive all deliveries, and prepare for distributions.
We are an agency member of the Greater Boston food Bank network, who supply 85% of the food that we distribute. Our additional community partners provide farm fresh produce and other products.
In addition to operating our own programs, The Salem Pantry warehouse operates as a cross deck location to support additional organizations throughout Northeastern Massachusetts. In partnership with The Greater Boston Foodbank, we support 15 other organizations to access food each month.
Where we work
Awards
Service Enterprise 2022
Massachusetts Service Alliance
External reviews
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How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
We serve food insecure members of the Salem and North Shore, Massachusetts community. a majority of our guests currently live in Salem, Massachusetts followed by a large number of guests from Lynn, Massachusetts. We also serve guests from 20 additional towns and cites. In 2022, 32% of our guest were under 18 years of age, 47% of our guests were between 18 and 64 years of age and 21% of our guests were 65 or older. Approximately 80% of those who personally attend our mobile distribution sites are woman.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
The Salem Pantry is currently surveying at our mobile distribution sites to composite data on our guests shopping preferences including: how many times a week they shop, what days of the week they prefer to shop, and what time of the day they shop. This data will help us determine hours of operation for our new brick-and-mortar location. We often use focus groups and community meetings as methods of feedback collection.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome
Financials
Financial documents
Download audited financialsRevenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2021 info
29.33
Months of cash in 2021 info
2.9
Fringe rate in 2021 info
18%
Funding sources info
Assets & liabilities info
Salem Pantry Inc
Revenue & expensesFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
Salem Pantry Inc
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot survive long, but the types of assets and liabilities must also be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan, and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.
Fiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
This snapshot of Salem Pantry Inc’s financial trends applies Nonprofit Finance Fund® analysis to data hosted by GuideStar. While it highlights the data that matter most, remember that context is key – numbers only tell part of any story.
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Business model indicators
| Profitability info | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | $54,421 | $347,211 | $279,250 |
| As % of expenses | 15.4% | 23.5% | 13.9% |
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | $54,421 | $342,522 | $243,687 |
| As % of expenses | 15.4% | 23.1% | 11.9% |
| Revenue composition info | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $408,327 | $1,944,863 | $2,165,519 |
| Total revenue, % change over prior year | 0.0% | 376.3% | 11.3% |
| Program services revenue | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| Membership dues | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Investment income | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Government grants | 0.7% | 7.6% | 2.0% |
| All other grants and contributions | 99.2% | 92.4% | 97.9% |
| Other revenue | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Expense composition info | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Total expenses before depreciation | $353,854 | $1,479,305 | $2,007,769 |
| Total expenses, % change over prior year | 0.0% | 318.1% | 35.7% |
| Personnel | 0.8% | 9.6% | 12.5% |
| Professional fees | 4.3% | 1.0% | 1.8% |
| Occupancy | 0.6% | 1.2% | 2.3% |
| Interest | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Pass-through | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| All other expenses | 94.4% | 88.2% | 83.3% |
| Full cost components (estimated) info | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total expenses (after depreciation) | $353,854 | $1,483,994 | $2,043,332 |
| One month of savings | $29,488 | $123,275 | $167,314 |
| Debt principal payment | $0 | $0 | $80,672 |
| Fixed asset additions | $2,191 | $186,314 | $66,493 |
| Total full costs (estimated) | $385,533 | $1,793,583 | $2,357,811 |
Capital structure indicators
| Liquidity info | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Months of cash | 4.0 | 2.8 | 2.9 |
| Months of cash and investments | 4.0 | 2.8 | 2.9 |
| Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | 4.1 | 2.3 | 3.0 |
| Balance sheet composition info | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $118,954 | $346,567 | $481,565 |
| Investments | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Receivables | $5,000 | $144,695 | $18,706 |
| Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $2,191 | $188,505 | $254,998 |
| Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 0.0% | 2.5% | 15.8% |
| Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 0.6% | 13.1% | 2.3% |
| Unrestricted net assets | $122,924 | $465,446 | $709,133 |
| Temporarily restricted net assets | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Permanently restricted net assets | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Total restricted net assets | $2,500 | $126,500 | $5,000 |
| Total net assets | $125,424 | $591,946 | $714,133 |
Key data checks
| Key data checks info | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Material data errors | No | No | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Principal Officer
Robyn Burns
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
Salem Pantry Inc
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
Salem Pantry Inc
Board of directorsas of 03/23/2023
Board of directors data
Bonnie Henry
DKH Advisors
Sean Monahan
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Betsy Ricciarelli
Ashley Ganem
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Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
Sexual orientation
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Disability
No data
Equity strategies
Last updated: 03/23/2023GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
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