Feed America earns 2026 Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency
Feed America (EIN 92-1761881), the national 501(c)(3) public charity operating a free food-assistance directory, has earned the 2026 Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid (formerly GuideStar). Platinum is the highest of four tiers and requires complete disclosure of mission, programs, financials, leadership, demographics, governance, impact metrics, and SDG alignment.
Feed America announced today that it has earned the 2026 Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency — the highest of four tiers Candid awards. The seal verifies completeness of public-facing organizational data including mission, programs, financials, leadership, demographics, board governance, impact metrics, and 2030 Sustainable Development Goal alignment.
What the Platinum Seal verifies
Candid's Platinum tier requires nonprofits to publicly disclose:
- Mission statement, organizational programs with descriptions and geographic coverage
- Audited financial statements or IRS Forms 990 / 990-EZ / 990-N
- Leadership biography and demographic self-identification (where leader chooses to disclose)
- Board governance practices including conflict-of-interest policy review
- 2025 metrics with year-over-year impact data
- Organizational goals and strategies
- 2030 Sustainable Development Goal alignment
- How-we-listen practices for collecting feedback from people served
Verification path
The 2026 Platinum Seal is verifiable directly on Candid at app.candid.org/profile/14633167/feed-america-92-1761881. Candid's database feeds into GuideStar, AmericanCharity, Charity Navigator, and most donor-advised-fund (DAF) tax-deductibility verification widgets within 24-48 hours of profile updates.
Operational context
Feed America operates without staff payroll. Donor dollars go to platform infrastructure (Cloudflare Workers + D1 database serving 275,307 directory listings and 255,820 USDA-authorized SNAP retailers), data verification, community partnerships, and open-data publishing. Feed America files the IRS Form 990-N (e-Postcard), which does not report a revenue or expense breakdown.
Verify our EIN: 92-1761881
Feed America (EIN 92-1761881, founded 2021) is a national 501(c)(3) public charity. Giving platforms and tax records list us as Feed America, Tax ID 92-1761881 — listing it on every gift instrument is how your donation is recorded to Feed America. Verify our EIN: 92-1761881 (IRS, Candid, ProPublica, Charity Navigator).
About Sharika Parkes, founder
Sharika Parkes founded Feed America in 2021 as a free, open-data alternative to gated food-help directories. Under her leadership, the organization reached the Platinum tier of transparency in five years — faster than many comparable nonprofits, where Platinum status typically takes 8-10 years to establish. Sharika is verifiable on Wikidata Q139665570.
Verifications and trust signals: /verifications. Financial filings: /transparency.