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MEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND

EIN 26-3443290 WDM, IA

Largest nonprofits in Iowa

Revenue 2025
$3,537,597
Expenses 2025
$3,549,233

Program services were 83.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K30
Classification
1000
Street
357 LINCOLN ST

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

DEVELOP AND CARRY OUT A COMREHENSIVE PLAN TO PROVIDE MEALS TO PEOPLE WHO CANNOT SUPPORT THEMSELVES IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD. THE PRIMARY FUNCTIONS WILL BE TO BRING TOGETHER PEOPLE FROM ALL SECTORS OF SOCIETY TO PREPARE PACKAGED FOOD PACKETS FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THE HUNGRY AROUND THE WORLD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

EMPOWER PEOPLE TO SAVE STARVING CHILDREN.

  • MEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND IS COMMITTED TO ITS MISSION OF EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO SAVE STARVING CHILDREN. ONE HALF OF THIS MISSION INVOLVES THE FOOD THAT IS PACKAGED YEAR AROUND IN VOLUNTEER EVENTS. THE OTHER HALF OF THIS MISSION IS TO ENCOURAGE VOLUNTEER SERVICE TO PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND BACKGROUNDS BY PROVIDING A POSITIVE TEAM AND COMMUNITY BUILDING EXPERIENCE THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN THESE EVENTS. THESE EVENTS WERE HELD AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT IOWA AS WELL AS AT OUR OWN LOCATION. DURING 2025, APPROXIMATELY 52 THOUSAND VOLUNTEERS PARTICIPATED IN THESE EVENTS AND PREPARED OVER 21 MILLION MEALS. MEALS ARE SHIPPED OUT NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY BY OUR DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS TO ON-THE-GROUND ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE CONTINUALLY ASSESSING AND IDENTIFYING NEEDS OF COMMUNITIES.

    Expenses $2,961,847 · Grants $2,176,593

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Chuck Current

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $91,813
    From this org
    $8,838
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $82,975
    Hours/week
    40

  • Greg Dehaai Retired January 2025

    PAST EXEC. D

    Total calculated
    $11,752
    From this org
    $10,167
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,585
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jerry Armstrong

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Austin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Beals

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dave Bradley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heather Campbell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jamie Carlson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Carlson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Ferin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ahmed Ibrahim

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amanda Rinehart

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Wittry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rebecca Young

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Koestner

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Bill Lowe

    VICE CHAIRMA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Doug Shelton

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jesse Bunney

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $3,537,597
    Expenses
    $3,549,233
    Contributions
    $3,521,028
    Grants paid
    $2,176,593
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,382,357
    Expenses
    $3,002,546
    Contributions
    $3,358,654
    Grants paid
    $1,842,527
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,928,865
    Expenses
    $3,271,301
    Contributions
    $2,931,408
    Grants paid
    $2,162,526
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,770,042
    Expenses
    $3,338,283
    Contributions
    $2,796,509
    Grants paid
    $2,350,956

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
    $2,488,215
    Expenses
    $2,205,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,328,328

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,011,968
    Expenses
    $2,247,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,912,157

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,844,845
    Expenses
    $2,541,107
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,097,441

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,346,134
    Expenses
    $2,205,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,649,775

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,052,363
    Expenses
    $2,319,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,518,359

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,856,674
    Expenses
    $2,155,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,754,672

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,363,907
    Expenses
    $1,775,442
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,088,125

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,950,219
    Expenses
    $1,437,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,441,412

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,911,966
    Expenses
    $1,061,776
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,192,968

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $816,643
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,985,153

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period
1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
Principal officer
Jason D Halfpap
Mailing address
PO Box 71606Clive IA 50325
Website
http://www.mealsfromtheheartland.org/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.