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NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC
NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $992,321 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($529,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $441k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $992k
- Net assets
- $439k
What New York Coalition for Healthy School Lunches Inc does
Mission
Nychsf mission is to introduce plant-based foods and nutrition education in schools to educate the whole school community about the health, environmental, and social justice issues of our food choices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
School program expenses food servicein 2024, we continued our formal partnership with new york city's department of education office of food and nutrition services (ofns). We participated in quarterly meetings and continued to work with them to promote plant-based entrees. We provided continuing education to about 350 of their management team, with kathy pollard, ms, presenting on our behalf in september. We also began an outreach program to about 15,000 school food service directors nationwide, in 46 states. This included an email newsletter and monthly webinars. Elementary schoolscool school food in the classroomcool school food in the classroom is a curriculum that we developed to introduce and promote specific plant-based recipes being served on the nyc schools lunch menu. The lessons are always taught in the morning and they are impactful because they are taught on the days that the dish is being served at lunch. In 2024, we delivered lessons from this curriculum at ps 244 in queens to three classes of third graders. The recipe we featured was chickpea shawarma, a dish inspired by the culture of the middle east. We did a slide-show presentation featuring images from the…
$223,904 spent$31,300 earned by the program75% of program spendingResource development food unearthed: uncovering the truth about food curriculumwe continued an extensive process to re-write our food unearthed curriculum and continued working specifically on the lessons for prek. This involved a curriculum writer, a teacher, and the coalition for healthy school food executive director and special projects manager and included work on the lessons, the extensive materials needed for the lessons, the take home handouts for the parents/caregivers, and getting feedback from our teachers.
$59,708 spent$8,346 earned by the program20% of program spendingCoalitions and conferencesin march of 2024, we presented to the new york state dry bean farmers about our work in schools. There were approximately 40 farmers and those who worked with farmers there. We present to them every year about our work getting beans on school menus and they provide us with a grant to do this work. We participate as part of a national coalition of non-profits that work on school food issues. We participate in monthly meetings with the goal of educating the public and creating policy change. Specifically, we are trying to elevate the importance of eating high fiber foods, and providing alternatives to cow's milk due to equity issues. We participate in the food ed coalition run by the tisch center at teacher's college, a coalition of non-profit organizations in new york city that provide nutrition education in schools. We meet with them monthly to network and this provides support and ideas for our programming.
$14,927 spent$2,087 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $298,539.
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 2020 to 2021, from $222k to $322k (+45%).
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 12% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2021 20% · 2022 11% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Amie Hamlin
Executive director
Board chair
Tracy Hubbell
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $21k → $235k.
7 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES 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
NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 36% · 2019 53% · 2020 54% · 2021 44% · 2022 82% · 2023 68% — 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
57% of NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
94% of NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES 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 $61k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $932k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC?
- NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $992,321 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($529,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $992,321 in grants to NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $529,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK COALITION FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES 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 2017–2024), 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