2026-05-14T17:49:51-05:00 2025-12-31 231144520 Tait Weller & Baker LLP 50 South 16th Street Suite 2900 Philadelphia PA 19102 990 2025-01-01 331215331 Mary's Meals USA Inc MARY 8003854983 75 Orchard Street Bloomfield NJ 07003 Jacob Allen Chairman 8003854983 2026-05-14 1 Harrison Pereira P00746867 2159798800 2026-05-04 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Jacob Allen 75 Orchard Street Bloomfield NJ 07003 23896704 0 X www.marysmealsusa.org X 2008 FL To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education (cont'd on page 41) for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises, especially by providing care for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children; and (iii) raise awareness of poverty issues through education. MMUSA grants such donations at the discretion of the MMUSA Board of Directors through Mary's Meals International, headquartered in Dalmally, Scotland, for specific country programs. 10 10 25 2346 0 0 23195210 23813272 0 0 137548 81432 0 -34447 23332758 23860257 18564939 21105000 0 0 1809369 1957121 0 0 418004 500691 540985 20874999 23603106 2457759 257151 3592035 3867805 197150 215769 3394885 3652036 X To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises (cont'd on Page 41) especially by providing care for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children; and (iii) raise awareness of poverty issues through education. MMUSA grants such donations at the discretion of its Board through Mary's Meals International, headquartered in Dalmally, Scotland, for specific country programs. 0 0 21105000 21105000 Mary's Meals International is a successful global movement that transforms the lives of children with a daily meal in a place of education in 16 of the world's poorest countries. Working collaboratively with local communities, Mary's Meals International establishes school feeding programs that draw children to schools, where they can receive an education that can be a path out of poverty. The Mary's Meals International program supports children but also has a positive impact on their households and communities.Sourcing food locally whenever possible, Mary's Meals International operates in some of the world's poorest, and most remote or conflict-ridden communities. The collaborative Mary's Meals school feeding program is particularly efficient and (cont'd on page 41) scalable, providing a cost-effective model that is a sustainable means to end child hunger. Mary's Meals USA provides grants to Mary's Meals International to fund the school feeding programs. In 2025, Mary's Meals USA marked 16 years of supporting Mary's Meals International's global feeding initiatives. While ensuring that 3 million children receive a nutritious meal every day in a place of education, Mary's Meals International also achieved some major milestones in its mission to fight child hunger and enable education. In the fall of 2025, our global school feeding programs reached 3 million children every school day, and we had the largest single year of growth in the history of our programs, driven by ambitious expansion plans. This was made possible thanks to grassroots giving, campaign appeals, volunteers and supporters worldwide.Across eight countries, programs were scaled up in Ethiopia, Haiti, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, South Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, to reach more than 650,000 additional children in over 1,300 schools. These expansions were essential in areas affected by hunger and disrupted education due to conflict, climate extremes, and political or economic instability. Additionally, an emergency appeal for drought affected Southern Africa, helped Mary's Meals to expand its school feeding programs across Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, which now sits at more than 2.1 million children. Following significant changes in Kenya, including government-led school feeding initiatives extending their reach and increased support from the Turkana County Government, a decision was made in 2025 to deliver our school feeding program entirely through our trusted local partner, Diocese of Lodwar. To support this transition, Diocese of Lodwar increased the number of Early Childhood Development and Education Centers (ECDEs) in Turkana where it delivers our school feeding program, to reach learners that were previously served by Mary's Meals Kenya. Additionally, Mary's Meals received significant global attention in 2025. In February, Founder and CEO Magnus MacFarlane Barrow was invited to speak at the Vatican's inaugural World Leaders Summit on Children's Rights in Rome. In April, the organization's documentary On the Frontlines of Hunger premiered at the Sarasota (FL) Film Festival and was later screened at Westminster and London's Frontline Club as part of the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, amplifying the voices of communities in Tigray, Ethiopia affected by conflict and climate shocks.Mary's Meals received an official invitation to participate in activities during the Youth Jubilee in Rome in the summer. A prayer vigil presided over by Pope Leo XIV at Tor Vergata was a highlight, with Mary's Meals Youth Ambassadors presenting our work to the vast crowd ahead of the Pope's appearance. Three well-known Catholic singers also performed live on stage as Mary's Meals representatives. Mary's Meals International school feeding model continues to be an effective solution for addressing global hunger as highlighted in our annual Impact Reports, which can be found on our website, www.marysmealsusa.org . Throughout 2024, Mary's Meals tracked child-focused indicators in the four program countries where the organization directly implements school feeding Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, and Zambia. Across these four countries, Mary's Meals surveyed teachers and children about the impacts of daily school meals on reducing hunger, as well as improving school attendance, participation, and progression through school.Key findings from the study demonstrate the positive impact of the Mary's Meals International school feeding program: Across our expanded programs, school meals increased enrollment by 10%. The average monthly school attendance was 89% 98% of children reported improved concentration after eating a school meal. Over the course of the year, we served more than 400,883,000 meals across 91% of school days, while achieving gender parity for another consecutive year. 100% of teachers stated that the school feeding program has had a positive impact on the quality of education this year, including improvements in attendance, participation, focus and lesson retention, pass rate, and a reduction in sickness and absenteeism. New in the 2024 Impact Report was the addition of data collected from children and teachers to understand program effects in post conflict settings. The study found that reintroducing school feeding in post-conflict Tigray, Ethiopia, strengthened routines, social interaction, and classroom participation, while fostering more peaceful settings.The positive impact of feeding children in a place of learning has also been recognized by the United Nations. In 2023, the United Nations added school meals as an official indicator under Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education, signaling global recognition of school meals as a key intervention to improve access to education and effective learning environments for children.Mary's Meals International works in countries that faced a variety of significant issues including conflict, the effects of climate change and increasing costs of food. Combined, these challenges negatively impact local communities and children in particular. The work of Mary's Meals International demonstrates the organization's commitment to providing services where they are needed most. Mary's Meals USA remains thankful for the support received from donors in the United States, which enables the Mary's Meals International programs that are transformative for the children, their families and their local communities. 1435408 Mary's Meals USA also focuses on education and awareness raising programs in the US on the impact of child hunger and the importance of school feeding programs. This awareness-raising program portion of the work allows the opportunity for more US volunteers to join Mary's Meals and become advocates for children in poverty. Staff and volunteers visit schools, groups, and organizations to give presentations about the work of Mary's Meals. Mary's Meals USA provides documentary films, brochures, and other materials to support these efforts. Regular emails and letters are sent to those who have requested updates so the information can be shared in their communities.Over the course of 2025, (cont'd on page 43) some of Mary's Meals USA awareness activities included: The 12th Annual Race to Feed Children in Des Moines, IA Annual Concerts to Benefit Mary's Meals in Iowa & Missouri Annual Summer Concert Series across multiple Iowa sites by performer Steve Angrisano Founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow spoke in Kentucky and Ohio, with events that included accompanying activities to engage a wider audience in the mission. 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Mary's Meals International (MMI) headquarters is located in Scotland. Funds from the U.S. are wired to MMI in Scotland and subsequently distributed to the school feeding programs per the grant request which at the end of 2025 were and continue to be located in the following countries: Benin, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 18559719 wire 0 Sub-Saharan Africa School feeding. 2463566 wire 0 Central America and the Caribbean School feeding. 81715 wire 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Part I, Line 2: Mary's Meals USA utilizes several methods to monitor the use of grant funds awarded. This includes periodic site visits by Mary's Meals USA Directors and staff as well as regular reports and updates on the management and monitoring of the programs by Mary's Meals International, the organization that manages the international work. The programs team has skills and expertise both in Mary's Meals International and in-country teams, including Malawi, Liberia, Kenya and Zambia. Mary's Meals International oversees budgets, procurement, financial management and monitoring of the programs. There are robust controls and procedures in place, including for example, Mary's Meals monitors regularly visiting schools to ensure the precious ingredients provided are cooked and served correctly and delivering training and encouragement to the community volunteers on issues such as stock control, safe handling and cooking of the food, child protection, sanitation, etc. This ensures we keep our promise to the hungry children who are part of our mission, that they will receive a meal in a place of education each day at school. Reporting is also thorough, with Mary's Meals International providing Mary's Meals USA with a comprehensive Annual Report including use of MMUSA grant funds and an overview of program growth and challenges experienced through the year. The report includes the names of any implementing program partners, as well as updates on all of the MMI programs, number of children fed and cost per child. Mary's Meals International, the sole MMUSA 2025 grant recipient outside of the USA, is subject to an audit and provides Mary's Meals USA audited financial reports by external independent auditors RSM UK Audit LLP. Concert for a Cause 43678 41678 2000 827 108 Christmas Festival 23571 23571 4800 16053 14660 67249 65249 2000 4800 827 16053 14768 36448 -34448 X 11 219978 FMV X 1 572 FMV X Decorations 1 1015 FMV 0 1 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b Once the 990 is prepared by the CPA firm, it is then reviewed by the management and the audit committee. It is then presented to the board of directors prior to filing with the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c Every member of the board of directors must submit a statement of compliance with the conflict of interest policy which is signed annually. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 There is a compensation study conducted which is presented to the board. It is benchmarked for everyone including staff. The range of salary is based on organization size. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are made available to the public upon request. Our Financial Statements are also available on our website. FORM 990, PART XII, LINE 2C The organization has a committee that assumes responsibility for oversight of the audit of its financial statements and selection of an independent accountant which commenced in 2014.