HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC

EIN 56-1385956 HICKORY, NC

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Revenue 2025: $1,054,193
Expenses 2025: $762,168

Program services were 91.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 1000
Street: PO BOX 1431

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO HELP RELIEVE HUNGER IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE TOTAL NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS MUST BE ADDRESSED, AND WILL SEEK TO FACILITATE THE MEETING OF OTHER NEEDS. HOWEVER, OUR PRIMARY PURPOSE IS THAT OF PROVIDING NUTRITIOUS MEALS TO THE HUNGRY OF OUR COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE DAILY MEAL TO THE HOMELESS AND INDIGENT OF CATAWBA COUNTY.

PROVIDED DAILY MEALS AND SHOWERS TO THE HOMELESS AND INDIGENT OF CATAWBA COUNTY. SERVED 64,588 INDIVIDUALS (82,913 PLATES, 9,236 SHOWERS) DURING 2025.

Expenses $614,874
GROCERY OUTREACH PROGRAM. PROVIDED FREE GROCERY STORE ITEMS TO INDIGENT FAMILES. SERVED OVER 600 FAMILIES MONTHLY. SERVICE PROVIDED FROM 8:30 AM TO 11:15 AM, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

Expenses $44,628
HOPE PROGRAM. WORKED WITH EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES TO HELP PEOPLE IN NEED OF WORK FIND JOBS. PROVIDED TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE TO THOSE WHO LACKED TRANSPORTATION TO GET TO THOSE JOBS. SERVED 152 INDIVIDUALS DURING 2025, RESULTING IN 33 SUCCESSFUL LONG-TERM EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES.

Expenses $36,150

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Aviance WilliamsAVIANCE WILLIAMS

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
Bill CableBILL CABLE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Steve CoffeySTEVE COFFEY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Shawn DagenhardtSHAWN DAGENHARDT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Emily GarmonEMILY GARMON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Todd HefnerTODD HEFNER

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jerry LongJERRY LONG

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
John LundeenJOHN LUNDEEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
David GayDAVID GAY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Pattie GoodPATTIE GOOD

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Janet MatthewsJANET MATTHEWS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Colton SextonCOLTON SEXTON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Richard GomersallRICHARD GOMERSALL

VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jeff KincaidJEFF KINCAID

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Nancy HardyNANCY HARDY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Lisa JenningsLISA JENNINGS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Christina McNallyCHRISTINA MCNALLY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Mark SinclairMARK SINCLAIR

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jeff McDermottJEFF MCDERMOTT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Michelle McAlpinMICHELLE MCALPIN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Teresa VasquezTERESA VASQUEZ

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Donna PutnamDONNA PUTNAM

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Cortney RobinsonCORTNEY ROBINSON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Bobbi TrickBOBBI TRICK

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Susan TallentSUSAN TALLENT

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2025

Revenue

$1,054,193

Expenses

$762,168

Contributions

$986,209

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$847,395

Expenses

$698,883

Contributions

$728,205

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$559,155

Expenses

$663,269

Contributions

$618,239

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$649,995

Expenses

$527,050

Contributions

$632,232

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$1,054,193	$762,168	$986,209	$0
2024	$847,395	$698,883	$728,205	$0
2023	$559,155	$663,269	$618,239	$0
2022	$649,995	$527,050	$632,232	$0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$661,389

Expenses

$483,158

Assets (EOY)

$2,960,733
2020 · 990

Revenue

$644,462

Expenses

$443,551

Assets (EOY)

$2,800,418
2019 · 990

Revenue

$437,443

Expenses

$342,370

Assets (EOY)

$2,527,416

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$661,389	$483,158	$2,960,733
2020	990	$644,462	$443,551	$2,800,418
2019	990	$437,443	$342,370	$2,527,416

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

CAROLINAS CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION INC

$25,000

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$20,000

2024 FOOD SUPPLY
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$16,300

2024 TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S STATED MISSION
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$15,000

2023 POVERTY
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$13,800

2023 FOOD PROGRAMS (FOOD BANKS & PANTRIES, SOUP KITCHENS)
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$13,575

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$12,875

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$12,600

2023 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$12,200

2024 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$12,175

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.