New York · Nonprofit
FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC
FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,517 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($36,206). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $106k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Friendly Fridge Foundation Inc does
Mission
The friendly fridge foundation is an organization that seeks donations in kind of surplus food, prepared and fresh, that would be discarded and provides a distribution point for this food in the north bronx area. To facilitate donations the friendly fridge organizes collection and transport and delivers part of the donations to six partner organizations in the neighborhood. The donated food is supplemented by the organization preparing soup as part of its regular distribution of food, which helps those in need with a ready to eat meal.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Weekly food preparation with redirected and purchased vegetables
$32,887 spent20% of program spendingRepackaging of rescued foods for distribution in community refrigerators
$110,173 spent67% of program spendingDistribution of food to six partner organizations
$13,155 spent8% of program spendingIn kind donations , sharing excess product with differentneedy partners
$8,221 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $164,436.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $26k to $3k (−87%).
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.
99% of FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION 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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $36k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 75% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
71% of FRIENDLY FRIDGE 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 $31k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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
FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters 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
Organizations like FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 FRIENDLY FRIDGE 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 FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC?
- FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,517 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($36,206). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $105,517 in grants to FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $36,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDLY FRIDGE FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 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