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Mission and Programs

Mission

Feed The Children is a Christian, international hunger and relief organization that delivers food, medicine and other necessities to children and their families who lack these essentials due to poverty, war, famine and natural and man-made disaster.

Programs

In partnership with NAEHCY (National Association of Educators for Homeless Children and Youth) distributes backpacks to homeless students enrolled in U.S. public schools. 

Program / Activities (NTEE Code)

Emergency Assistance (Food, Clothing, Cash)
International Development, Relief Services
International Relief

Accomplishments for Fiscal Year Ending 06/30/2008

1.  Since establishment in 2006, 240,000 new backpacks filled with age appropriate school supplies, food and personal care items have been distributed through public schools.    Another 120,000 are expected to be delivered in 2009-2010 school year

Eighty-three percent of all donations to Feed The Children go directly to program services. Feed The Children is audited by an independent company each year and has profiles in the top charity evalution organizations in the country. The Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance (www.give.org) has awarded Feed The Children with its Charity Seal, meaning that FTC is an approved charity of the nation's most respected charity evaluator.

Additional Comments

Feed The Children works closely with many civic-minded U.S. corporations, which donate surplus food, medicine, clothing and other staples suitable for distribution to the hungry in the U.S. and abroad. A Feed The Children subsidiary, FTC Transportation, Inc., picks up in-kind contributions from corporate warehouses and transports them to one of the FTC regional distribution centers, located in Ontario, CA, Elkhart, IN, Nashville, TN, Oklahoma City, Houston, TX and North Brunswick, NJ. Some of the donations are then distributed in bulk. Others are processed into individual relief boxes weighing about 25 pounds. Each box typically contains canned and non-perishable food items or personal care and hygiene items, and a toy or book. Feed The Children never charges a fee to recipients at any point in the process.

Financial Data
From the organization's FORM 990

Revenue and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2008

Revenue			Expenses
Contributions $1,177,947,451 Government Grants $179,597 Program Services $0 Investments $2,659,578 Special Events $0 Sales $0 Other $2,269,083			Program Services $1,055,503,509 Administration $20,797,769 Other $72,115,229 Total Expenditures $1,148,416,507
Total Revenue	$1,183,055,709		NET GAIN/LOSS	$34,639,202

Balance Sheet: Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2008

Notes
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot long survive, but the types of assets and liabilities also must be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.

Assets	Jul 1, 2007	Jun 30, 2008	Change
Cash & Equivalent	$6,062,264	$2,807,917	$(3,254,347)
Accounts Receivable	$410,370	$811,633	$401,263
Pledges & Grants Receivable	$385,884,620	$362,405,861	$(23,478,759)
Receivables/Other	$4,419,221	$4,205,273	$(213,948)
Inventories for Sale or Use	$57,747,238	$120,436,653	$62,689,415
Investments/Securities	$63,120,749	$61,286,520	$(1,834,229)
Investments/Other	$1,343,920	$4,840,423	$3,496,503
Fixed Assets	$31,384,737	$27,584,977	$(3,799,760)
Other	$8,444,562	$8,215,281	$(229,281)
Total Assets	$558,817,681	$592,594,538	$33,776,857
Liabilities	Jul 1, 2007	Jun 30, 2008	Change
Accounts Payable	$3,597,704	$5,861,504	$2,263,800
Grants Payable	$0	$0	$0
Deferred Revenue	$186,505	$0	$(186,505)
Loans and Notes	$88,454	$2,307	$(86,147)
Tax-Exempt Bond Liabilities	$0	$0	$0
Other	$468,329	$423,489	$(44,840)
Total Liabilities	$4,340,992	$6,287,300	$1,946,308
FUND BALANCE	$554,476,689	$586,307,238	$31,830,549

Comments from the organization
Copies of Feed The Children's IRS Form 990 and Annual Report, including audited financial information, are available at www.feedthechildren.org.

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