1Q 2012 Results

For the first three months of 2012, we did 20 outreaches and served 1,770 meals, raising our total lunch bag tally (dating back to 2003) to 43,945.

Fourteen of those outreaches were in Tulsa where volunteers handed out 1,620 lunches. Special thanks go to Chris Hyslop for scheduling sermons for our Friday events.

Our Denver teams went out six times in the first-quarter, delivering 150 sack lunches. We tip our hat to Len Everett and Beth Poirier for leading.

All this puts us on pace to serve our 45,000th meal in May and our 50,000th meal maybe around November. 

Our 2011 Annual Report

CHART: That's an average of 4,686 meals per year since we started.

The deadline for non-profits (whose fiscal year ends Dec. 31) to file tax returns with the IRS is May 15. We got ours in for our Tulsa and Denver ministries on April 21 – almost a month ahead of schedule.

The form we file for both ministries is called a 990-N. It’s very simplistic since we have typically averaged less than $50,000 in donations per year.

The occasion gave us another opportunity to assess 2011 and to recall just how much we are blessed.

The level of revenue we’re receiving in Tulsa continues to pave the way for the future of Filling The Void, allowing us to supply the startup funds for our new ministries like we did in Denver and are preparing to do in Dallas.

This gives our new ministries strength right from the start, allowing us to put all of our focus on finding and serving the homeless and needy – not fundraising.

We’re also simply serving a lot more meals. In 2011, we served a total of 8,475 to set our all-time high for a single year – and up 46 percent from 5,800 in 2010. 

All told, our volunteers went out 97 times in 2011 to find folks, feed 'em and plant seeds of faith in their lives. Of that amount, we did 56 outreaches in Tulsa and 41 in Denver.