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MEALS FOR UNITY INC

MEALS FOR UNITY INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,855 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($50,337). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$166k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$136k
Net assets
$240k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Meals for Unity Inc does

Mission

Meals for Unity is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to uplift those in need through community and food. As a result of COVID19, the AAPI community in NYC witnessed a surge in social disparities, including violence, poverty, and food insecurity. What started as a one-time event to feed and aid our neighbors has evolved into Meals for Unity. Our pillars are to provide meals to vulnerable communities, amplify and support local food businesses, and spread awareness to promote community action.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The Asian American Foundation Grant (April 2025 - April 2026). Funds used for monthly meal distributions including purchasing of meals and supplies

    $43,380 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    82% of program spending
  2. The Civic Impact Fund Grant (June 2025 - October 2025). Funds used for monthly volunteer experience expenses including volunteer appreciation events, training and merchandise

    $9,761 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    18% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,141.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2024 Revenue 268 ($159k) Expenses 122 ($74k) Net assets 312 ($125k)2025 Revenue 279 ($166k) Expenses 85 ($52k) Net assets 597 ($240k)
202320242025
Revenue (279)Expenses (85)Net assets (597)Peer revenue range

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 $127k to $240k (+89%).

$46k
$127k
$240k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MEALS FOR UNITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’23
$85k
’24
$114k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Brian Pham

Co Founder & Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $7k → $19k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 MEALS FOR UNITY 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

MEALS FOR UNITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

91% 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 MEALS FOR UNITY INC.

37%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 70% · 2023 42% — 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

54% of MEALS FOR UNITY 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 $62k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.

NY
CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MEALS FOR UNITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin69% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)67% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEALS FOR UNITY 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 MEALS FOR UNITY INC?
MEALS FOR UNITY INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,855 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($50,337). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MEALS FOR UNITY INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $135,855 in grants to MEALS FOR UNITY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEALS FOR UNITY INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,337 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEALS FOR UNITY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 8 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