Share Our Strength

This is the information from the Charity Navigator site. It shows that only 68% is distributed to the cause of what the charity is intended to do. There is no way I would donate to this charity whatsoever.

Program Expenses
(Percent of the charity's total expenses spent on the programs
and services it delivers) 68.0%
Administrative Expenses 9.0%
Fundraising Expenses 22.9%
Fundraising Efficiency $0.19
Working Capital Ratio (years) 0.60
Program Expenses Growth 10.6%
Liabilities to Assets 25.3%

It is very difficult to measure a nonprofit purely on percentages of revenue spent on admin/fundraising/programs but what else do we have to go by unless you've been entrenched with the org for years and have seen behind the curtains? But it is concerning to me that several reviews and stats show that the Billy and Debbie Shore founders duo raked in a combined base salary total of approx. $373,000 in 2012....and last year 2018 that combined total was $598,000. That's a pretty generous salary for any nonprofit, and while nonprofits DO need to spend on talented fundraisers and other personnel to be successful, giving yourselves a 60% salary bump over a six year period is excessive by any reasonable standard of measurement.

I am not here to doubt the impact of NO KID HUNGRY and believe the mission to very important. But I do think the organization should take a step back and figure out if there is a better balance of compensation for leadership and money spent on advertising and print for fundraising efforts and that of true impact dollars that could be utilized to pump into grassroots level orgs already well equipped to achieve some of the things that No Kid Hungry campaigns may be spending to reinvent the wheel.

I felt better of this charity when I donated 6 years ago. I chose it because I thought it necessary to address hunger in the US more than overseas (get your own house in order first). The level of compensation of the founders (related family members) seemed excessive for the size of the charity.

After donating I was deluged by glossy printed mailings asking for more. Searching for No Kid Hungry often yields no results. It is now under Share Our Strength. They won’t get another dime of my money. I’m looking more at Direct Relief which has more choice of where my contribution goes and the CEO for that billion dollar charity makes less than the two founders of this wasteful charity

I chose this charity so as to help in any small way I can, to help eliminate hunger amongst children. I set my goal to £500 but managed to raise just over half at £271. I have had NO COMMUNICATION WHATSOEVER from the "No Kids Go Hungry" organization to say thanks or that they have received the monies. I am a total loss therefore, as to where the monies have gone to. Can a member of the Organization please get in touch with me via facebook and let me know that the funds have reached its destination safely? Or I may never participate in this type of fundraising ever again! It is common courtesy to say thank you to those who have reached deep down in their pockets to make a donation and we all know how difficult it is to get people to do this!

Thank you.

Lela Abbas-Sukul

I chose this organization as a fund raiser for my birthday. My goal was exceeded beyond what I had set. I know there are administrative costs as with any organization, but my heart breaks knowing there are children who are hungry. If at least half of what I raised goes to the feeding of the children, then I have achieved my goal.
Thank you and let's keep feeding the children...

I was glade to donate , what I was very disappointed in was that I did not see a place to put how much I would like to donate & they took out 50.00 dollars They should have took out 20 or let me put the amount I would like. I am not happy please watch out for this & I hope I can find how to get intouch with this organization.

This is a great organization that fills the need for children to eat all year round! When children are hungry, that can't concentrate I'm school which leads to more problems. Keep up the good work!

While they may or may not do good work, there are a few points in their form 990: 1) William Shore and his sister are paid a combined base salary of $373,000 per year. Pretty rich for a NPO of that size. 2) Their top 6 executives received $1,230,000 in base salary. 3) They've spent $1,000,000 on non-grassroots lobbying activities in 2008 and 2010, and another $627,715 in 2009. That's a lot of lobbying. 4) They have a closely-held equity interest of over $1,000,000. What did they invest in where they own over 5% of the publicly traded shares or their investment is over 5% of the total assets? Is it... 5) Community Wealth Ventures - "CWV is a wholly-owned, for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength", which managed to lose almost $100,000 in 2010. And William Shore is the Chairman and Executive Director of CWV. How much is he making from that venture? 6) They spent 21 cents of every dollar on admin. Pretty high. ---> Maybe donate directly to your local food bank instead?

NoKidHungry is such an important campaign. I wish more of the money collected went to the programs and not fundraising or admin costs.

This is a good Charity that helps lots of families and kids. I've done lots of research on Share Our Strength and I believe everything they're doing is great.