New York · Nonprofit
East End Food Institute
East End Food Institute (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,982,742 to it, the largest being THE REBA JUDITH SANDLER FOUNDATION INC ($567,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $965k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $852k
What East End Food Institute does
Mission
East End Food is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support, promote and advocate for farmers and producers, while ensuring everyone in the community can enjoy and be nourished by local food. We envision the East End of Long Island, NY as a place where all farms and food businesses are thriving and supported by an engaged community whose members understand the benefits and uniqueness of local food.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Kitchen: East End Food has grown to fulfill a true need in the local food community, working with farms to create new distribution channels for surplus produce. When a farm becomes a Business Member with East End Food, they gain access to a comprehensive suite of services and support, including assistance in packaging and label requirements, connecting with new buyers and expanding distribution networks. Through our membership, farms can effectively scale their operations, increase their revenue streams and contribute to the sustainable growth of the local agriculture economy.MARKET: East End Food serves as a catalyst for small-scale food entrepreneurs looking to start and grow their businesses. Our shared community kitchen offers a licensed space for producers to make their goods, and our in-person and virtual farmers markets provide important platforms to bring their products to the community. When food producers become Business Members with East End Food, they gain access to a wide range of resources and support, including licensing, packaging, and distribution logistics, paving the way for long-term success within the local food industry and beyond.G&A: East End Food believes…
$598,406 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $598,406.
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 2022 to 2023, from $418k to $3.4M (+722%).
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 9% · 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2023 19% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of East End Food Institute’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Debra Halpert
Co-Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $5k → $414k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 East End Food Institute’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
East End Food Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 East End Food Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 60% · 2020 29% · 2021 33% · 2022 33% · 2023 32% — 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
71% of East End Food Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
East End Food Institute draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $702k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
East End Food Institute runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding East End Food Institute receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $964k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$964k
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 East End Food Institute
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 East End Food Institute: 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 East End Food Institute?
- East End Food Institute (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,982,742 to it, the largest being THE REBA JUDITH SANDLER FOUNDATION INC ($567,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does East End Food Institute have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,982,742 in grants to East End Food Institute, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of East End Food Institute?
- THE REBA JUDITH SANDLER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $567,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like East End Food Institute 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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