New York · Nonprofit
CITY HARVEST INC
CITY HARVEST INC (New York) receives grants from 1200 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,654,462 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($23,727,004). 724 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $216M
- Funders on record
- 1,200
- Grants received
- $245M
- Net assets
- $97M
What City Harvest Inc does
Mission
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. We do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency food rescue: using a fleet of 23 trucks, three of which are tractor trailers, city harvest rescues and delivers excess food seven days a week. In fiscal year 2025, city harvest collected 86.1 million pounds of food, 74% of which was fruits and vegetables. This food was delivered, free of charge, to 400 soup kitchens, food pantries, and other community partners across new york city. Since our founding, we have rescued and delivered nearly 1.3 billion pounds of good, nutritious food for new yorkers in need. At city harvest, we recognize our responsibility to the people we serve and strive to ensure the highest food safety standards in every facet of our food rescue operations. We take careful steps to ensure that each pound of food is rescued and delivered safely. 1. Cohen community food rescue center (frc): during fiscal year 2025, city harvest fully operated in our permanent 150,000-square- foot facility in sunset park, brooklyn. The frc has a cold loading dock with seven bay doors that leads directly to our cooler and freezer spaces to safely hold perishable food without breaking the cold chain. Additionally, the frc has over 1,100 pallet positions for dry storage and…
$200,320,281 spent97% of program spendingAs a natural extension of the anti-hunger work we began more than 40 years ago, we also work alongside our community partners to build their capacity, expand nutrition education, and advocate for systems change through effective public policy. Our programs put nutritious food on the tables of new yorkers in need and help inspire long-term change in the fight against hunger by: 1. Relieving food insecurity: city harvest provides new yorkers experiencing food insecurity with nutritious food, free of charge, to feed themselves and their families. A. Providing food: this year, city harvest delivered 86.1 million pounds of food across the city. Since 74% of this food was produce, soup kitchens and food pantries were then able to offer participants a variety of nutritious foods. B. Mobile markets: through free, farmers' market-style distributions of produce in low-income communities across the five boroughs, city harvest distributed nearly 3 million pounds of fruits and vegetables in fiscal year 2025. On-site cooking demonstrations show residents how to cook with the produce and nutritious shelf-stable food. City harvest has nine mobile markets across new york city that each hold two…
$6,550,945 spentof which $754,856 as grants$342,561 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $206,871,226.
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 2020 to 2021, from $69M to $248M (+260%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CITY HARVEST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jilly Stephens
CEO/non-voting board member
Board chair
Eric S Schwartz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 233 funders to 481 funders, grant income rose $6.2M → $37M.
70 of 1200 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 CITY HARVEST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1200 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
CITY HARVEST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
44% 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 CITY HARVEST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 12% · 2021 18% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% — 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
43% of CITY HARVEST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
51% of CITY HARVEST INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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
CITY HARVEST INC's funding base is broadening — from 233 funders to 481 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like CITY HARVEST 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY HARVEST 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 CITY HARVEST INC?
- CITY HARVEST INC (New York) receives grants from 1200 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,654,462 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($23,727,004). 724 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITY HARVEST INC have?
- IRS filings report 1200 organizations giving $244,654,462 in grants to CITY HARVEST INC, 724 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY HARVEST INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $23,727,004 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY HARVEST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 1200 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