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← HUNGER TASK FORCE OF LA CROSSE INC

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by HUNGER TASK FORCE OF LA CROSSE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$676,425
Total expenses
$552,800
Contributions and grants received
$619,549
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$18,621
Investment income
$21,988
Other revenue
$16,267
Total assets, end of year
$1,693,591
Total liabilities, end of year
$188,762
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,504,829
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$462,186
Management and general expenses
$76,313
Fundraising expenses
$14,301
Program service expenses (Part III)
$462,186

Program services were 83.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $27,186

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $20,812

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $126,080

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $445,471

  • 2a · Program service revenue: OTHER MISCELLANEOUS

    total $18,621 · related or exempt $18,621

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $27,349 · related or exempt $27,349

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $45,413

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $50,774

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$5,361

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$5,361 · related or exempt -$5,361

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $21,496

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $20,812

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $5,229

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $16,267 · excluded $16,267

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $72,072 · program services $47,568 · management and general $18,018 · fundraising $6,486

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $203,646 · program services $179,558 · management and general $24,088

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $22,269 · program services $18,344 · management and general $3,401 · fundraising $524

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $15,600 · management and general $15,600

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $10,448 · program services $10,448

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $9,721 · program services $4,861 · fundraising $4,860

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $4,656 · program services $2,328 · management and general $1,164 · fundraising $1,164

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $79,609 · program services $75,628 · management and general $3,981

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $147 · program services $147

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $54,281 · program services $51,567 · management and general $2,714

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $29,437 · program services $23,550 · management and general $5,887

  • 24a · Other expenses: TRUCK EXPENSE

    total $40,935 · program services $40,935

  • 24b · Other expenses: GARDEN EXPENSE

    total $5,373 · program services $5,373

  • 24c · Other expenses: TELEPHONE

    total $2,323 · program services $1,410 · management and general $697 · fundraising $216

  • 24d · Other expenses: OTHER

    total $2,283 · program services $469 · management and general $763 · fundraising $1,051

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $208,083 · end of year $230,414

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $58,834 · end of year $24,153

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $18,025

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $6,736 · end of year $6,128

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $489,938

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $325,861

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $152,975 · end of year $164,077

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $872,360 · end of year $1,106,159

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $162,660

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $7,015 · end of year $11,588

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $15,901 · end of year $177,174

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,230,409 · end of year $1,402,161

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $63,688 · end of year $102,668

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO ELIMINATE HUNGER BY HARVESTING COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND BEING A VOICE OF THE HUNGRY.

  • THE FOOD RECOVERY PROGRAM BEGAN IN 2000 TO SAFELY RECOVER DONATED FOODFOR FREE DISTRIBUTION TO AREA MEAL SITES, FOOD PANTRIES AND YOUTH PROGRAMS.WE ARE THE HUB FOR LOCAL FOOD DONATIONS AND SERVE OVER 120 PROGRAMS INLA CROSSE, MONROE, TREMPELEAU AND VERNON COUNTIES IN WISCONSIN, HOUSTONAND WINONA COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA, AND ALLAMAKEE COUNTY IN IOWA. WE ARE LA CROSSES ONLY FREE AND LOCALFOOD BANK.

    Expenses $369,750

  • KANE STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN - HUNGER TASK FORCE OF LA CROSSE OPERATES THECOMMUNITY GARDEN AT THE CORNER OF KANE AND ST. CLOUD STREETS ON THE NORTHSIDE OF LA CROSSE. (NORTH OF MENARDS) THE GARDEN WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1998 ONCITY-OWNED PROPERTY AND BEGAN WITH PRODUCING 5000 LBS. TODAY, THE GARDENPRODUCES TENS OF THOUSANDS OF POUNDS OF PRODUCE EACH YEAR WHICH ISDISTRIBUTED TO PEOPLE NEEDING FOOD ASSISTANCE. VOLUNTEERS AND THE COMMUNITYARE ALSO INVITED TO TAKE HOME FREE, FRESH PRODUCE! DAILY VOLUNTEERSPREPARE, PLANT, MAINTAIN, AND HARVEST THE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES BEGINNINGIN MID-MARCH. EVERY MONDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY DURING THE HARVESTSEASON, WHICH BEGINS IN JUNE, VOLUNTEERS ASSIST IN PICKING VEGETABLES WHICHARE THEN DISTRIBUTED ON SITE TO INDIVIDUALS.

    Expenses $92,436

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • SHELLY FORTNER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $71,940
    From this org
    $71,940
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • ANGIE LIMBERG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • NICK LICHTER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • LYNN KONSELA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • STEVE LEE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • LINDA TEMTE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • IAN WALKER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • BECKY ZOELLNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • KEVIN STRANGMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • CEDRIC FRIESEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • KEITH BUSWELL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MARILYN HURT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JEANNIE GROSKREUTZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • STEVE DANIEL

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • GENE LINSE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JILL HAMILTON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • SCOTT TURNBULL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
1 October 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202403209349305870

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