New York · Nonprofit
Long Island Cares Inc
Long Island Cares Inc (New York) receives grants from 299 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,454,000 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($3,848,986). 175 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 299
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Long Island Cares Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to bring together all available resources for the benefit of the hungry on Long Island, and provide to the best of our ability for the humanitarian needs of our community. We provide food when and where its needed, sponsor programs that promote self-sufficiency and educate the public about the causes and consequences of hunger on Long Island. Our vision is a hunger-free Long Island.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Harry Chapin Food Bank receives, warehouses, and distributes millions of pounds of purchased and donated food from various sources to its member agencies serving Nassau and Suffolk counties. The food bank serves more than 300 member agencies, Long Island Cares extends its reach through soup kitchens, group homes, and local nonprofits that share one goal; to feed and care for our neighbors in need.
$33,151,652 spent93% of program spendingLICs outreach programs provide food assistance and essential support directly to communities across Nassau and Suffolk counties. Services include mobile food pantries, disaster relief, homeless outreach and homebound deliveries. These programs reduce barriers to access and help combat food insecurity with compassion and flexibility. The organization also operates pantry locations in Freeport, Huntington Station, Lindenhurst, Bethpage, Valley Stream and Hampton Bays which provide food and community outreach services to their local communities. LIC supports children with food programs and youth engagement initiatives that fight childhood hunger. From mobile school pantries and after-school meals to weekend food packs, we ensure kids have access to nutrition all year long. We proudly support veterans through food assistance and personalized referrals. Programs like Military Appreciation Tuesdays and our mobile pantry help address food insecurity and ease the transition to civilian life. We work closely with veteran service agencies to ensure every veteran gets the care and resources they deserve. LIC advocates for hunger relief and food security through the Chapin Center for Public…
$2,426,722 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,578,374.
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 2019 to 2020, from $11M to $19M (+66%).
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 18% · 2018 14% · 2019 15% · 2020 5% · 2021 13% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Long Island Cares Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Katherine Fritz
CEO
Board chair
Sandy Chapin
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 121 funders, grant income rose $318k → $2.4M.
24 of 299 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of New Jersey). These are real filings, and they are not money Long Island Cares Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Long Island Cares Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 299 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
Long Island Cares Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
53% 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 Long Island Cares Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 27% · 2019 30% · 2020 18% · 2021 32% · 2022 18% · 2023 12% — 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
48% of Long Island Cares Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
Long Island Cares Inc draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
Long Island Cares Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Long Island Cares Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $760k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$760k
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 Long Island Cares 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Long Island Cares 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 Long Island Cares Inc?
- Long Island Cares Inc (New York) receives grants from 299 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,454,000 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($3,848,986). 175 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Long Island Cares Inc have?
- IRS filings report 299 organizations giving $20,454,000 in grants to Long Island Cares Inc, 175 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Long Island Cares Inc?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $3,848,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Long Island Cares 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 299 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing