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← WORLD HUNGER ECUMENICAL ARIZONA TASK FORCE INC

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by WORLD HUNGER ECUMENICAL ARIZONA TASK FORCE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$26,806,322
Total expenses
$26,387,605
Contributions and grants received
$25,595,315
Grants paid
$24,456,863
Program service revenue
$1,187,960
Investment income
$23,047
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$1,502,281
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,502,281
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$26,363,963
Management and general expenses
$22,283
Fundraising expenses
$1,359
Program service expenses (Part III)
$26,363,963

Program services were 99.9% 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

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $24,915,859

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $679,456

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $412,725

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Education

    total $515,000 · related or exempt $515,000 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Clothes Silo

    total $412,725 · related or exempt $412,725 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Hand to Hand Project

    total $260,235 · related or exempt $260,235 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $23,047 · related or exempt $23,047 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $0 · other assets $0

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

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $0

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

    $0

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 9a · Gaming: gross income

    $0

  • 9b · Gaming: direct expenses

    $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $0

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $24,456,863 · program services $24,456,863

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $86,400 · program services $76,896 · management and general $8,640 · fundraising $864

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $465,262 · program services $465,262 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $120,020 · program services $120,020 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $32,568 · program services $32,568 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $5,000 · program services $5,000 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $5,500 · program services $5,500 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $54,775 · program services $49,345 · management and general $4,935 · fundraising $495

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $33,792 · program services $33,242 · management and general $550

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $97,142 · program services $89,792 · management and general $7,350 · fundraising $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $8,748 · program services $7,940 · management and general $808 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: EFSP Fiscal Agent Administration for CR23/HR23

    total $607,100 · program services $607,100 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Management Training Training Instruments

    total $414,435 · program services $414,435 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $59,500 · end of year $293,431

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $941,314 · end of year $1,141,650

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $82,750 · end of year $67,200

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,083,564 · end of year $1,502,281

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The mission of WHEAT is to educate, advocate, engage and empower individuals to action in the fight against hunger and poverty. WHEAT's major empowerment programs include EFSP Staffing, SNAP Outreach, Hand to Hand, a fair trade initiative, The Clothes Silo and Management Training & Mentoring.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The mission of WHEAT is to educate, advocate, engage and empower individuals to action in the fight against hunger and poverty. WHEAT's major empowerment programs include Hand to Hand, a fair trade initiative, The Clothes Silo and Management Training & Mentoring.

  • WHEAT's education programs provide awareness, ongoing training and tools for action in the fight against hunger including workshops, presentations, skill building. Programs include the Norma Johansen Hunger Library providing resources of all kinds, free of charge, for book discussions, youth motivation, teaching and more. WHEAT's Training and Mentoring program provides high level training, including on-the-job training, workshops, personal and professional development for those who are unemployed or underemployed. This job trainings gives the participants marketable skills to become gainfully employed. The program includes ICan Youth Leadership programs, providing mentors to youth at risk, while receiving job experience, workshops on career development and future educational opportunities. Recipients are low income Arizona residents. WHEAT also provides SNAP Outreach and Application Assistance as well as staffing the EFSP National Program in Arizona.

    Expenses $750,000 · Revenue $615,000

  • WHEAT's Clothes Silo provides free, professional clothing to people in need who are entering or re-entering the workforce. The program provides clothing, as well as personal shoppers who give the clients special attention to find just the right outfit for the job interview or first day on the job. The programs, started in 1985, also provide special networking opportunities and additional workshops for clients throughout the year. The clothing is also available for much-reduced, affordable prices to the public to support the expenses associate with the program as well as to provide a great source of professional wear for those who have little extra to spend on attire or who are the keen on saving dollars while supporting a great cause and getting wonderful career wear. Recipients of free services are low income Arizona residents referred through partner social service agencies; customers come from all walks of life including discerning shoppers.

    Expenses $335,000 · Revenue $412,725

  • The Hand to Hand Project, a fair trade initiative, is another of WHEAT's major empowerment programs. It includes the Fair Trade Store, making fairly traded gifts and goods available to the public through purchase while helping the artisans and farmers, locally and globally, become self sustaining, able to feed, clothe, shelter and educate themselves and their families. Fair trade is a very successful and positive way to fight hunger and poverty, worldwide.

    Expenses $189,500 · Revenue $260,235

  • Volunteer Support for all the wonderful people who share their time with WHEAT to make the programs so successful and meaningful.

    Expenses $25,500

  • WHEAT serves as the Administrative and Fiscal agency for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program Local Boards in 8 Arizona counties and the Arizona State Set Aside Committee. This includes oversight and reimbursement of the HR-22 funding to organizations providing direct service to Asylum Seekers.

    Expenses $25,063,963 · Grants $24,456,863 · Revenue $25,063,963

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Tamera Zivic

    Executive Director/CEO

    Total calculated
    $86,400
    From this org
    $86,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Elaine Groppenbacher

    Chairperson/Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Colleen Boles

    Past Chairperson/Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Heather Brown

    Vice Chairperson/Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jennifer Pedroza

    Secretary/Treasurer/Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Constance Alvarez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Jean

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gurukirn Kaur Khalsa

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carolyn Murray

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Nixon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MariaJose Sanchez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • Regional Center for Border Health Inc

    $10,608,681

    Work with Migrants encountered by DHS at the Southern Border through EFSP CR23/HR23 program. WHEAT acts as the Fiscal Agent.

  • International Rescue Committee

    $6,462,057

    Work with Migrants encountered by DHS at the Southern Border through EFSP CR23/HR23 program. WHEAT acts as the Fiscal Agent.

  • Helping With All My Heart Inc

    $2,000,383

    Work with Migrants encountered by DHS at the Southern Border through EFSP CR23/HR23 program. WHEAT acts as the Fiscal Agent.

  • Monte Vista Baptist Church dba Monte Vista Cross Cultural Baptist Church

    $1,806,300

    Work with Migrants encountered by DHS at the Southern Border through EFSP CR23/HR23 program. WHEAT acts as the Fiscal Agent.

  • Tongan United Methodist Church

    $985,133

    Work with Migrants encountered by DHS at the Southern Border through EFSP CR23/HR23 program. WHEAT acts as the Fiscal Agent.

  • St Vincent dePaul Society

    $796,776

    Work with Migrants encountered by DHS at the Southern Border through EFSP CR23/HR23 program. WHEAT acts as the Fiscal Agent.

  • One Hundred Angels

    $641,074

    Work with Migrants encountered by DHS at the Southern Border through EFSP CR23/HR23 program. WHEAT acts as the Fiscal Agent.

  • Iglesia Cristiana el buen Pastor AZ

    $526,005

    Work with Migrants encountered by DHS at the Southern Border through EFSP CR23/HR23 program. WHEAT acts as the Fiscal Agent.

  • Pilgrim Rest Foundation

    $197,948

    Work with Migrants encountered by DHS at the Southern Border through EFSP CR23/HR23 program. WHEAT acts as the Fiscal Agent.

  • Central United Methodist Church

    $115,263

    Work with Migrants encountered by DHS at the Southern Border through EFSP CR23/HR23 program. WHEAT acts as the Fiscal Agent.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
8 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202441299349302229

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