New York · Nonprofit
ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC
ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,038 to it, the largest being THE GIANTS FOUNDATION INC ($90,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $220k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $75k
What Rock & Wrap It Up Inc does
Mission
Rock and wrap it up is a global think tank working to reduce food insecurity and poverty. Using green house tactics, we recover food and assets to be given to agencies fighting poverty, increasing their operating budgets. This allows the agencies to hire more services such as tutors, social workers, job placement counselors and mental health counselors to attack the root cause of poverty. Rock and wrap it up recovers food from sports, schools, music, film, television, hospitals and hotels. Rock and wrap it up helped to write the federal food donation act of 2008 which encourages all federal buildings to feed the hungry and keep food out of landfills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rwu school and snack wrap rwu is in over 200 schools recovering food that is prepared but not served. Students also participate in the snack wrap. Program which encourages younger students to donate their unopened snacks to children in latchkey programs and in shelters. College wrap promotes greening activities by recovering assets from graduating students which would have gone to landfills.
Music wrap rwu has partnered with over 160 bands that tour and include a stipulation in their contract that food that is prepared but not served be donated to feed the local hungry and avoid landfills. Rwu is piloting a national program to ramp up to recovering food from 40+ arenas.
Sports wrap seventy four sport franchises in the nfl, nba, mlb, nhl and msl have partnered with rwu to participate in sports wrap food that is prepared but not sold from home game concessions, luxury boxes and clubhouses is recovered to feed the indigent.
It's a wrap rwu is currently recovering prepared but not served food from 56 film and tv production sets. These productions include tv series, feature films, and talk-shows with locations nationwide. Hotel/conference wrap rwu is currently working with over twenty hotels piloting the recovery of food and room assets. These assets include toilet paper rolls, tissue boxes, shampoo, conditioner and unopened soap from room vanities to keep them out of landfills. Hospital wrap rwu arranges the recovery of food from five hospitals that was prepared but has not been served as well as non-perishable foods for anti-poverty agencies. Feed the veterans rwu has developed the feed the veterans program where veterans, their caregivers and national agencies can access their national food pantry/soup kitchen database, hungerpedia. Hannah's project rwu has launched a program for at-risk teens and women to help maintain their dignity by providing feminine hygiene products to shelters, soup kitchens and pantries. Rock and wrap it up - advocacy: rwu wrote and helped pass the federal food donation act 2008. This act encourages federal buildings to donate food from the buildings to poverty fighting…
$55,503 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $55,503.
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 2017 to 2018, from $20k to $102k (+412%).
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.
74% of ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Syd Mandelbaum
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $30k → $37k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 49% · 2019 47% · 2020 103% · 2021 99% · 2022 81% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ROCK & WRAP IT UP 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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC?
- ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,038 to it, the largest being THE GIANTS FOUNDATION INC ($90,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $219,038 in grants to ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC?
- THE GIANTS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCK & WRAP IT UP 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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