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RETHINK FOOD NYC INC

RETHINK FOOD NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,877,043 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($26,000,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$59M
Funders on record
95
Grants received
$57M
Net assets
$8.0M
37/95 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What Rethink Food NYC Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to reduce food insecurity by developing practical models that distribute nutritionally dense, culturally sensitive meals to nourish healthy and thriving communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Rethink services - provide delicious and dignified meals for all kinds of communities & contracts at scale utilizing like-minded restaurants, kitchens, and corporations

    $52,333,122 spent
    91% of program spending
  2. Commissary kitchen - our commissary kitchen converts donated food items from grocery stores, corporate partners and restaurants into nutritious meals to deliver to cbos at no cost. On average the site provides over 5,000 meals a week.

    $3,722,649 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. Rethink certified - rethink certified is a partnership program with two purposes: feed communities and keep restaurants in business.

    $1,454,801 spentof which $40,321 as grants$237,585 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $57,510,572.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($78k) Expenses 100 ($9k) Net assets 100 ($69k)2018 Revenue 1903 ($1.5M) Expenses 5282 ($470k) Net assets 1569 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 1548 ($1.2M) Expenses 13371 ($1.2M) Net assets 1665 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 48539 ($38M) Expenses 186878 ($17M) Net assets 32437 ($22M)2021 Revenue 37552 ($29M) Expenses 309258 ($27M) Net assets 35093 ($24M)2022 Revenue 15982 ($12M) Expenses 224767 ($20M) Net assets 24260 ($17M)2023 Revenue 64709 ($51M) Expenses 639599 ($57M) Net assets 15134 ($10M)2024 Revenue 75096 ($59M) Expenses 688669 ($61M) Net assets 11538 ($8.0M)
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Revenue (75096)Expenses (688669)Net assets (11538)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $23M (+1832%).

$69k
$1.2M
$1.2M
$23M
$25M
$18M
$23M
$14M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of RETHINK FOOD NYC INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 274 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$69k
’17
$1.0M
’18
$20k
’19
$21M
’20
$1.8M
’21
−$7.5M
’22
−$6.3M
’23
−$2.6M
’24
0.6
months of
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

Matthew Jozwiak

Founder, CEO

Board chair

Julian Baker

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed11121521242427
Joined·+1+10+8+8+2+6
No longer listed·072523
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 26 funders, grant income rose $5k → $6.1M.

22 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 RETHINK FOOD NYC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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

RETHINK FOOD NYC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

58% 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 RETHINK FOOD NYC INC.

46%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 39% · 2021 67% · 2022 58% · 2023 51% — 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

24% of RETHINK FOOD NYC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

57% of RETHINK FOOD NYC 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 $25M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from New York funders.

WA
IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
DE
TN
NC
FL

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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

RETHINK FOOD NYC INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)158% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding RETHINK FOOD NYC INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $175k on record.

Federal$175k
grants $175kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$175k

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 RETHINK FOOD NYC INC

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In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

17
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 36 states

AK
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IL
MI
NY
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PA
NJ
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RI
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CO
KY
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HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Rethink Food USA Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds RETHINK FOOD NYC INC?
RETHINK FOOD NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,877,043 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($26,000,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RETHINK FOOD NYC INC have?
IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $56,877,043 in grants to RETHINK FOOD NYC INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RETHINK FOOD NYC INC?
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $26,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RETHINK FOOD NYC 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 95 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