New York · Nonprofit
COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC
COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,450,601 to it, the largest being REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ($607,987). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Comfort Food of Washington County Inc does
Mission
The mission of Comfort Food Community is to fight rural hunger with innovative programming that expands access to healthy food and builds community partnerships for lasting change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FOOD CENTER:In 2025, the average weekly number of households visiting our Greenwich or Cossayuna pantries rose to 213, or 7% over 2024. This included 7,760 children, 15,440 adults, and 7,677 elderly clients served annually. Across all programs addressing food insecurity, CFC distributed 864,279 lbs. of food.
$1,109,097 spent57% of program spendingOther prgorams include ongoing outreach and education that provides educational programs for children and adults to encourage healthy food use, reinforce its nutritional benefits, and build skills around food preparation and waste reduction. The backpack program demonstrates CFC's collaborative efforts by aiding Greenwich School District students with weekend meals, guaranteeing they receive the necessary nutrition to thrive.
$307,640 spent16% of program spendingThe Food Recovery & Access Program works to reduce food insecurity by rescuing surplus food and expanding access to healthy, nutritious options for individuals and families in underserved communities. The program recovers fresh and shelf-stable food from farms, distributors, retailers, and partners, preventing food waste while redirecting high-quality food to those most in need. Food is distributed through a network of community partners and innovative access points, including mobile pantries and community-based locations, to ensure food is available in dignified, stigma-free settings.
$240,407 spent12% of program spendingCommunity Health provides educational programs for children and adults to encourage healthy use of food and to reinforce its nutritional benefits, and to build skills around food preparation and waste reduction. In addition Community Health works on primary prevention through food-based interventions and resource navigation to connect clients with vital services and promote healthier outcomes.
$202,433 spent10% of program spendingThe Food & Farm Hub in Greenwich is a specialized 20,000 sq. ft. facility suitable for storage of fresh and non-perishable food products, food cleaning and processing, and serving as a distribution center for delivery of nutritious food to CFC's clients and to our partner and program sites in Saratoga, Warren, and Washington
$74,037 spent4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,933,614.
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 $455k to $1.1M (+149%).
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 10% · 2018 28% · 2019 17% · 2020 12% · 2023 20% · 2024 22% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $19k → $309k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 53% · 2020 55% · 2021 41% · 2022 46% · 2023 50% — 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
67% of COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
90% of COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY 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. $477k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC has grown faster than half of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 101 Fiddlers Elbow Road LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC?
- COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,450,601 to it, the largest being REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ($607,987). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,450,601 in grants to COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC?
- REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $607,987 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY 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.
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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 14 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing