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HEARTY HELPINGS INC

EIN 92-1895666 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2024
$7,745,443
Expenses 2024
$9,104,173

Program services were 95.8% 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
100 JAMES E CASEY DR

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).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Tara A Ellis

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $274,519
    From this org
    $83,010
    From related orgs
    $166,020
    Other
    $25,489
    Hours/week
    12.5 + 37.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $74,343 + $148,687 related
    Bonus
    $7,200 + $14,400 related
    Other
    $1,467 + $2,933 related
    Deferred
    $4,809 + $9,617 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,688 + $7,375 related
    Filer's total
    $91,507 + $183,012 related

  • Heidi G Cheston

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $157,714
    From this org
    $46,210
    From related orgs
    $92,420
    Other
    $19,084
    Hours/week
    12.5 + 25 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $44,610 + $89,220 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,600 + $3,200 related
    Deferred
    $2,674 + $5,347 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,688 + $7,375 related
    Filer's total
    $52,572 + $105,142 related

  • Rachel Leidenfrost

    EVP Projects & People

    Total calculated
    $151,889
    From this org
    $13,396
    From related orgs
    $120,560
    Other
    $17,933
    Hours/week
    3.75 + 23.75 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $12,915 + $116,240 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $480 + $4,320 related
    Deferred
    $680 + $6,118 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,113 + $10,022 related
    Filer's total
    $15,188 + $136,700 related

  • Tami Bartels

    Chief Operations Officer

    Total calculated
    $134,538
    From this org
    $37,053
    From related orgs
    $74,106
    Other
    $23,379
    Hours/week
    12.5 + 25 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $35,453 + $70,906 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,600 + $3,200 related
    Deferred
    $2,579 + $5,157 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,214 + $10,429 related
    Filer's total
    $44,846 + $89,692 related

  • Rick Pohlman

    Chief Commissary Officer

    Total calculated
    $126,498
    From this org
    $105,258
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,240
    Hours/week
    37.5 + 37.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $100,458
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $4,800
    Deferred
    $5,057
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,183
    Filer's total
    $126,498

  • Eric Decker

    Board Member / Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Lamont Williams

    Board Member / First Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Michele MeHaffy

    Board Member / Secreatary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Nancy Blaschak

    Board Member / Second Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Dominic Eusanio

    Board Member / Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Matt Cohen

    Board Member / CAC Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Donna Kahm

    Board Member / Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Latonya Diggs

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Mary Ellen Frandina

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Kristen Hanson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Lou Jacobs

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Matt Jones

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Kimberly Lamdendola

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Shella McCartan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Jamel Perkins

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Rosa Allen Pizzi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Todd Pohlman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Jen Regan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Ashley Rowe

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

  • Jeffrey Russo

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 5.5 related

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,745,443
    Expenses
    $9,104,173
    Contributions
    $2,500
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,677,102
    Expenses
    $6,424,182
    Contributions
    $57,859
    Grants paid
    $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.

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.