New York · Nonprofit
HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC
HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,888,303 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ($2,850,913). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Hunger Free America Inc does
Mission
Hunger free america (hfa) is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization building the movement to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all americans have sufficient access to nutritious food.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hunger free america is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization building the movement to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all americans have sufficient access to nutritious food. Since our founding in 1983, we have been an effective champion in the fight for economic, racial, and food justice. As a leading research and advocacy organization, we work to implement innovative yet practical solutions to hunger. We work to address the root causes of hunger and engage americans of all backgrounds in the fight to ensure that our society supplies living wage jobs and an adequate government nutrition safety net. We also supply direct service, helping americans access governmental and non-governmental sources of food and by building a new generation of anti-hunger leaders. Programs: advocacy, research, and policy: our advocacy team is a voice for the tens of millions of americans who struggle against u.s. Hunger. One of the most effective and courageous advocacy groups in the nation, we work directly with elected officials on the city, state, and federal levels to advance policies to end hunger and promote economic justice, like the hope…
$4,358,578 spentof which $48,384 as grants$185,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,358,578.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $2.5M (+120%).
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: 2017 36% · 2018 29% · 2019 36% · 2020 21% · 2021 42% · 2022 58% · 2023 70% · 2024 34% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Joel Berg
CEO
Board chair
Dan Glickman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $575k → $1.5M.
15 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders 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 HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 33% · 2019 36% · 2020 30% · 2021 22% · 2022 31% · 2023 29% — 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
38% of HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
80% of HUNGER FREE AMERICA 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. $609k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.5M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$2.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
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 HUNGER FREE AMERICA 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 HUNGER FREE AMERICA 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 HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC?
- HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,888,303 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ($2,850,913). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $12,888,303 in grants to HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC?
- UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY is the largest funder on record, with $2,850,913 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUNGER FREE AMERICA 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 72 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