Pfood Pfairness in Pflugerville Schools
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Charitable: Our goal at Pfood Pfairness in Pflugerville Schools is to ensure every student has access to hot, nourishing meals without worrying about debt or embarrassment. No child should ever have to choose between hunger and humiliation. As a student-founded, student-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit fighting food insecurity and inequity in our school district, our goal is to provide families with the necessary funds to reduce the financial burden of the students' lunch costs, ensuring all students have equal access to equitable meals and keeping families out of collections.
- Income
- $97,090
- Spending
- $67,281
- Reserves
- 12.7 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 100%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $978 spent. Pfood Pfairness paid the outstanding school lunch debts for families in Pflugerville ISD who were in financial need. These families have a household income too high to qualify for the help they need with the free and reduced lunch program, but not enough to be able to afford the school lunch prices they're charged. When these families start accruing debt, the students are given an alternative lunch consisting of a cold cheese sandwich. Students are charged for this replacement meal, adding to their families' debts and perpetuating the cycle. At the end of the school year, families who owe are sent to collections, often ruining their credit and exacerbating problems for those already in financial crisis. Pfood Pfairness pays the debts, ensuring the children can continue to receive hot, nourishing meals and keeping the families out of collections. Some families reach out to us directly for debt assistance and others are brought to our attention by the school district with identifying student information redacted due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Because we are blind to all information except campus attended and debt amount, we cannot differentiate families receiving repeated help from those who only receive it once. In 2024, Pfood Pfairness paid a total of $65,854.55 across 6,271 account credits on biweekly funding days from January through May and then again from August through December. Though it's possible each account credit was made to a different family, a more feasible estimate is that 700-800 families were helped with their lunch debts and saved from collections thanks to Pfood Pfairness' efforts and assistance. Because funding to provide debt relief and funding to provide future meals for students happen concurrently, there is no way to allocate program service expenses to them individually. Subsequently, program service expenses for providing debt assistance are estimated and were calculated by using the ratio of money used for debt payments to total grants.
- School lunch debt is a problem for districts across the nation. At the end of every school year, the debt to the food service provider must be paid by the school district, as required by USDA federal law. If there are negative balances beyond what is anticipated, the district must repay them out of funds originally allocated for student programs and teacher resources meant to enhance educational experiences for all. Helping those families in need by pre-emptively funding student accounts not only ensures children have access to hot meals and averts their potential embarrassment, it also prevents an ever-increasing lunch debt that, first, falls on the district to repay to the food services company and then sends families to collections to recoup the funds for the district. Every dollar Pfood Pfairness paid toward the debts of district families was a dollar Pflugerville ISD did not have to pay at the end of the school year, benefitting the district as a whole. In 2024, because Pfood Pfairness contributed $45,204.81 to pay student lunch debts, Pflugerville ISD did not need to reallocate funds meant for teacher resources and student programs, nor did they have to use the money budgeted specifically for anticipated debt, allowing them to put those funds toward programs at risk of being cut due to budget constraints. Consequently, by helping those families in need, Pfood Pfairness also helped ensure every teacher and student in the district benefitted. The grant amount and program service fees for this accomplishment are already accounted for in our first accomplishment listed.
- $447 spent. Pfood Pfairness funded lunch accounts for Pflugerville ISD students to cover the cost of hot meals, ensuring they did not receive the alternative cold, cheese sandwich the district serves if money is owed. At the beginning of 2025, to qualify for free lunch, the household monthly income limit was $3,483 for a family of four. The limit includes everyone in the household, including a teenager who works, and it is the same in every state, not taking into consideration cost of living differences. Students helped are in financial need but do not receive the assistance they need from the free and reduced lunch program, usually because of a household income just out of qualifying range. Accounts were funded at least every two weeks, helping an average of 432 students each time. Some families reach out to us directly for debt assistance and others are brought to our attention by the school district with identifying student information redacted due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Because we are blind to all information except campus attended and debt amount, we cannot differentiate families receiving repeated help from those who only receive it once. Throughout 2025, a total of $20,649.74 was added for students across 6,271 account credits on 18 different funding days from January to May and then again from August through December. Though it's possible each account credit ensured hot lunches for different students, a more feasible estimate is that 700-800 were provided funds for meals. Over this time, funding for 34,100 hot meals was provided for students across 27 campuses--11,899 lunches at the high school level, 4,281 in middle school, and 14,740 at the elementary level. Prior to Pfood Pfairness' intervention, these students were either receiving a cold cheese sandwich for lunch and suffering the humiliation of having their entree replaced in front of their peers, or they were avoiding lunch completely, preferring hunger over embarrassment. Many of these students come from low-income families and are considered at risk, and some are even athletes trying to make the entire school day and after school practice or a game with just the free breakfast to sustain them. Providing these children with a hot meal and the nourishment they need to be successful in school, academically and otherwise, while also sparing them the social consequences of receiving the alternative lunch, is Pfood Pfairness' primary mission. Because funding to provide debt relief and funding to provide future meals for students happen concurrently, there is no way to allocate program service expenses to them individually. Subsequently, program service expenses for lunch funding assistance are estimated and were calculated by using the ratio of money used to ensure hot meals to total grants.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since May 2023.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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