Delaware · Nonprofit
HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC
HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC (Delaware) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $722,838 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($253,820). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $723k
- Net assets
- $813k
What Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire healthier lives by providing youth with joyful school gardening experiences and opportunities to eat the garden-fresh vegetables they've grown. Our vision is a vegetable garden in every school, leading to generations of healthy families throughout delaware.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hfhk's education cultivation program supports 68 school vegetable gardens in delaware. Students learn how to tend and harvest the garden and eat what they are growing during both spring and fall planting seasons. Lessons support the state of delaware science curriculum standards and teach the importance of a healthy diet.
$374,811 spent$166,481 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $374,811.
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 2024 to 2025, from $294k to $813k (+176%).
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: 2021 27% · 2022 55% · 2023 24% · 2024 59% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC’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. 2 of the last 5 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
Lydia Sarson
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Hoffman Phd
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $23k → $122k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 99% · 2021 62% · 2022 55% · 2023 47% — 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
43% of HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
75% of HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $940k on record — $387k federal, $553k state.
- Department of Agriculture$387k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES$149k
- GRANTS IN AID$147k
- FED GRANT SUB RECIPIENT$123k
- STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES$76k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES$49k
- CONSULTANTS$5k
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 HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC?
- HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC (Delaware) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $722,838 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($253,820). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $722,838 in grants to HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC?
- DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $253,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 17 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