2025-05-30T14:57:19-05:00 2024-12-31 231144520 Tait Weller & Baker LLP 50 South 16th Street Suite 2900 Philadelphia PA 19102 990 2024-01-01 331215331 Mary's Meals USA Inc MARY 8003854983 75 Orchard Street Bloomfield NJ 07003 Jacob Allen Chairman 8003854983 2025-05-30 1 0 Harrison Pereira P00746867 2159798800 2025-05-29 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Jacob Allen 75 Orchard Street Bloomfield NJ 07003 23332758 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 38) 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 23 1664 0 0 13908955 23195210 0 0 73416 137548 0 0 13982371 23332758 12041508 18564939 0 0 1513759 1809369 0 0 377200 380568 500691 13935835 20874999 46536 2457759 3023448 3592035 2086322 197150 937126 3394885 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 - Continued on Page 37 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 18564939 18564939 Mary's Meals International is a successful global movement that transforms the lives of chronically poor children with a simple meal. Working collaboratively with local communities, Mary's Meals International establishes school feeding programs that attract poor children into the classroom, where they receive an education that can free them from a lifetime of poverty. The Mary's Meals International program supports not only the 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. At the end of 2024, Mary's Meals programs were feeding 2,594,868 children every school day across 16 countries. The collaborative Mary's Meals school feeding program is particularly efficient and scalable, providing a model that is a sustainable means to end world hunger. Mary's Meals USA provides grants to Mary's Meals International to fund the school feeding programs. In 2024, Mary's Meals USA marked 15 years of supporting Mary's Meals International global feeding initiatives. While ensuring that 2,594,868 children received a nutritious meal every school day, Mary's Meals International also achieved several major milestones in its mission to combat child hunger and enable education.Building on the successful restart of the school feeding program in 2023 for 10,000 children in war-torn Tigray, Ethiopia, Mary's Meals worked with the in-country partner during 2024 to scale the school feeding program to feed 110,000 children in 200 schools throughout the Tigray region. Despite increases in violence and conflicts the adversely affected food security, Mary's Meals programs in Haiti, Syria and Lebanon collectively supported school feeding for more than 180,000 children every school day, serving as lifelines for children caught in the path of violence, armed gangs and chronic upheaval. In the fall, Mary's Meals marked 10 years of school feeding in Zambia. The program launched ten years ago in Chipata, in Zambia's Eastern Province, starting with 25 schools and feeding 18,000 children. By 2024, Mary's Meals International was providing meals to more than 400,000 children in 1,000 schools across 11 districts.In 2024, Mary's Meals International expanded its feeding program to Mozambique, responding to escalating food insecurity and the worsening effects of climate change on hunger in the region. Working with in-country partner, the Mozambique School Lunch Initiative (MSLI), Mary's Meals provides meals to more than 5,000 children in 30 primary schools across the Mabalane district of the Gaza province in southwest Mozambique. Mary's Meals International school feeding model continues to be an effective solution for addressing global hunger. Throughout 2023, 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, 3,100 children in receiving Mary's Meals in schools, hundreds of teachers and groups of parents were surveyed about the impacts of daily school meals on reducing hunger, as well as improving school attendance, participation, and ultimately progression through school.Key findings from the study demonstrate the positive impact of the Mary's Meals International school feeding program:- Only 1% of children reported missing school due to hunger after meals were introduced.- Following the introduction of meals, 84% of children said they never leave school early because of hunger.- Before meals were served, 36% of children felt they could concentrate well in class. This rose to 98% after receiving meals.- 99% of teachers reported that school meals help reduce student dropout rates.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. 1331778 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. 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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 2024 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. 15703010 wire 0 Sub-Saharan Africa School feeding. 2702710 wire 0 Central America and the Caribbean School feeding. 158030 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 2024 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 34873 34873 34873 34873 X 13 173776 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.