2024-02-27T09:33:21-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 473155665 LAKE COUNTY AREA CHURCHES CHARITIES LAKE 2312874869 740 E NINTH ST BALDWIN MI 49304 Bruce Whitney Board President 2318984466 2024-02-27 Bruce Whitney 999009999 1 0 11 0 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X X breadoflifefoodpantrybaldwinmin.com X X 132983 X 106195 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26788 132983 7405 0 0 0 7533 2853 111839 129630 3353 26788 0 30141 26788 30141 0 0 0 0 26788 30141 0 0 26788 30141 The LCACC Bread of Life pantry's primary purpose is to provide low cost, fresh & frozen food for sustenance, provide utilities & heating fuel assistance for shelter & warmth & other emergency assistance as needed so that compassionate care is provided for all people of the Greater Lake Co. MI. area. The BOL collaborates & organizes the Greater Lake Co. Area communities of faith & other entities to meet our mission goal. Over 2023 the Bread of Life pantry (BOL) received & filled 8,250 family unit requests, affecting 29,716 people for food requests. This resulted in over 24,750 bags of groceries given out & distributing 262 pallets of donated food, not including the many individual donations received. The preparation & volunteer hours were over 8,274 hours. This meant that 13,308 times children had food, 6,319 Seniors had food, 1,239 veterans were served, 318 homeless were served. The pantry was open every Wed. of the year, from 11-4pm. Patrons were encouraged to request food each week without any limit to the number to times they could come & receive food. Even so, 78% of all family units only made use of the pantry 1x each month. No one was ever turned away without being served. The pantry is a pantry of choice. A weekly food item list is provided & turned in to an all volunteer staff to fill the shopping list. Our patron requests grew by 26% over 2022. Our weekly requests grew from 148 to 179 averaging each week. The pantry operates with 100% volunteer service & labor. There are no paid staff. There is a team of 5-8 shoppers to fill in the gaps to provide healthy abundant supplies. There is a team of 15-20 to unload bi-weekly donations from a food supplier some 100 miles away. There are 5-10 volunteers who stock the shelves & another 6-12 who fill the grocery lists. The pantry operates by volunteers & is funded entirely through donations from individuals & their trusts with grant support from some community, individuals, faith communities & foundational grants & trusts. BOL has a large local business support, plus is aggressive in it's grant seeking & procurement. We raised over $100,000 in the poorest county in MI. The BOL received the Govenor's Service award & the Director received in 2022 the Mi Governnor's Hero award. 111839 17791 17791 Bruce Whitney BOL Board President 10 0 0 0 Lynne Mills BOL Director 10 0 0 0 Chris Johnson Secretary 6 0 0 0 Donna TenBrock Treasurer 6 0 0 0 Marianne Cooke Procurement Director Shopping 8 0 0 0 Terri King Procurement assistant 7.0 0 0 0 Diane Simolinski Hope Chest Director 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MI Bruce Whitney 740 E NINTH ST BALDWIN MI 49304 2312874869 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 106195 106195 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 106195 106195 0 106195 0 0 0 0 0 0 106195 0 X CROP WALK 15886 0 15886 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15886 0 15886 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15886 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Description;Amount^Balance forward;26788^Total;26788^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Expenses include: $111,838.72 for Groceries, food given out at the pantry to 8,250 family unit request serving 29,717 people.