Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
412 FOOD RESCUE INC
412 FOOD RESCUE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,788,513 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($1,336,339). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 157
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What 412 Food Rescue Inc does
Mission
412 food rescue was founded to directly impact hunger and sustainability by saving fresh, healthy food from going to waste, and to develop an innovative technology-based reverse logistics model that aims to fight hunger and promote sustainability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
412 food rescue works with food retailers, wholesalers, restaurants, caterers, universities and other food providers to rescue un-sellable but perfectly good food. These providers often do not have the operations resources to consistently redirect food to community organizations. 412 food rescue only rescues fresh, perishable food-healthy food-and directly distributes it to organizations. It does not store or bank the food. Donated food is valued at the approximate estimated retail food value of one pound of food wasted as well as food waste diverted, based on 2016 data from the bureau of labor statistics on monthly average food prices to estimated retail food value, which is updated yearly based upon the consumer price index for food at home. 412 food rescue rescued approximately 4,600,000 pounds of food during 2025 with an estimated fair value of $14,086,218 for the year ended december 31, 2025. Food is delivered to agencies that serve low-income, homeless, and other needy people in allegheny county, pennsylvania. Agencies currently include soup kitchens, public school backpack programs, community organizations and other nonprofits that serve those who are food insecure. 412…
$15,677,591 spent$63,872 earned by the program91% of program spendingFood rescue hero is a mobile and web-based software platform that mobilizes a volunteer logistics network to redirect surplus, healthy food from retailers to nonprofit partners serving food-insecure populations. The platform's success in urban and rural settings has proven its potential to address both environmental and social challenges by reducing food waste and improving food access. The food rescue hero platform was created and is maintained by 412 food rescue, and includes a growing network of food recovery organizations across north america as licensed partners.
$1,476,691 spent$234,000 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,154,282.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.1M to $6.1M (+98%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 10% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of 412 FOOD RESCUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Alyssa Cholodofsky
CEO
Board chair
James Langton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $462k → $1.5M.
23 of 157 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 412 FOOD RESCUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 157 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
412 FOOD RESCUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
34% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 412 FOOD RESCUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 26% · 2019 32% · 2020 16% · 2021 9% · 2022 22% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
32% of 412 FOOD RESCUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of 412 FOOD RESCUE INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
412 FOOD RESCUE INC has grown faster than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding 412 FOOD RESCUE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$90k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like 412 FOOD RESCUE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 412 FOOD RESCUE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC?
- 412 FOOD RESCUE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,788,513 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($1,336,339). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 412 FOOD RESCUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 157 organizations giving $12,788,513 in grants to 412 FOOD RESCUE INC, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 412 FOOD RESCUE INC?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,336,339 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 412 FOOD RESCUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 157 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing