New York · Nonprofit
Community Food Advocates Inc
Community Food Advocates Inc (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,500,832 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($775,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $922k
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Community Food Advocates Inc does
Mission
Community Food Advocates, Inc. (CFA) mission is to ensure all New Yonkers have access to healthy, affordable and culturally-appropriate foods through equity-centered, high-impact public policy change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lunch 4 Learning - CFA has built a uniquely diverse coalition representing young people, public school parents, unions, academics, and grassroots, anti-hunger, public health, and education groups.
$527,654 spent$598,839 earned by the program53% of program spendingGood Food Purchasing Program - CFA leads the New York State Good Food Purchasing Program (NYS GFPP) Campaign, to expand the impact of values-based food procurement across new York State. We have built a coalition of organizations that represent and seek to transform the food system through the lens of the five GFPP values to improve institutional procurement in municipalities throught New York.
$395,480 spent$114,410 earned by the program40% of program spendingSupermarket Access - CFA researches supermarket access in NYC with the goal of bringing together key partners to identify a bold comprehensive approach to address this long entrenched problem of lack of supermarket access in low income communities.
$46,604 spent5% of program spendingCommunity Food Advocates has a youth leadership development internship program Youth Food Advocates where NYC high school students learn the essential skills to develop into informed and powerful advocates.
$22,810 spent$50,000 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $992,548.
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 $504k to $1.8M (+253%).
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.
98% of Community Food Advocates 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. 5 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.
Board chair
Minerva Delgado
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $89k → $848k.
8 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Community Food Advocates Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
Community Food Advocates Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 59% · 2019 55% · 2020 21% · 2021 23% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% — 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
36% of Community Food Advocates 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
57% of Community Food Advocates 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. $539k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Community Food Advocates Inc is better cushioned than half of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Community Food Advocates 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 Community Food Advocates 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 Community Food Advocates Inc?
- Community Food Advocates Inc (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,500,832 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($775,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Food Advocates Inc have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $4,500,832 in grants to Community Food Advocates Inc, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Food Advocates Inc?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $775,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Food Advocates 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 46 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