Food and Environment Reporting Network

Analysis

Food and Environment Reporting Network is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Food and Environment Reporting Network reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.3m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $620k to $1.3m (+114%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 111%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Food and Environment Reporting Network sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 78th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Operation No Person Left Behind Outdoors Inc ($1.3m), Coastside Adult Day Health Center ($1.3m) and Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department Memorial Project ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% and program service revenue 8.0% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $209k (16% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $508k. At year end it held assets of $704k against liabilities of $87k, net assets of $617k. It reported 11 employees.