Delaware · Nonprofit
FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Delaware) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,737,850 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,002,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $75M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Food for Education Foundation Inc does
Mission
Food for Education Foundation Inc. supports School Feeding Program (SFP) activities - specifically with the goal of providing affordable, nutritious meals to students in public schools throughout Kenya and any other country within the continent of Africa.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food for Education Foundation Inc. supports School Feeding Program (SFP) activities - specifically with the goal of providing affordable, nutritious meals to students in public schools throughout Kenya and any other country within the continent of Africa. This work is accomplished by providing grants to organizations that are conducting that direct work in those countries. The grants provided by the organization are used to build kitchens, buy ingredients, prepare food, deliver and serve meals, conduct measurement and evaluation, develop technologies to make meal service more effective, as well as to provide general and administrative support. Through the grant assistance provided by the organization, over 70 million meals were prepared and served to children throughout Kenya in the past fiscal year.
$61,156,963 spentof which $61,156,963 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $61,156,963.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $43M to $94M (+117%).
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.
97% of FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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. 1 of the last 4 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
Wawira Njiru
Chair and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $4.0M → $3.9M.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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
FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
73% of FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $12M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33M 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
FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 191 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 191 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Delaware) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,737,850 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,002,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $44,737,850 in grants to FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $25,002,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 18 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