Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE FOOD DRIVE INC
THE FOOD DRIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,492 to it, the largest being Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation ($72,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $559k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $278k
- Net assets
- $63k
What The Food Drive Inc does
Mission
The corporation was organized in melrose, massachusetts to promote food access, food justice, and climate action. We partner with commercial and community sources to rescue wholesome food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it directly to local pantries, programs, and people within an approximate ten-mile radius. A significant portion of our rescued food is fresh produce, helping to bridge the shortage of healthy food available to people in poverty
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Through our primary activity of food rescue, the food drive recovers food that would have been wasted at commercial sources and delivers it at no cost to pantries, low-income housing, and other recipients - literally driving food from the point of potential waste to the point of need. In addition to our own city of melrose, we serve everett, lynn, malden, medford, reading, saugus, stoneham, wakefield, and woburn. Our focus is providing the fresh, nutritious food that is vital for good health and can be prohibitively expensive and in short supply at food pantries.
$581,469 spent$559,247 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $581,469.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $10k to $79k (+689%).
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: 2022 4% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of THE FOOD DRIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Jana Gimenez
Executive director
Board chair
Elizabeth Bianco
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $34k → $99k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 THE FOOD DRIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
THE FOOD DRIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 75% · 2022 74% · 2023 31% — 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
87% of THE FOOD DRIVE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE FOOD DRIVE INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,975 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding THE FOOD DRIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$18k
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 THE FOOD DRIVE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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 THE FOOD DRIVE 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 THE FOOD DRIVE INC?
- THE FOOD DRIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,492 to it, the largest being Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation ($72,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOOD DRIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $278,492 in grants to THE FOOD DRIVE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOOD DRIVE INC?
- Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $72,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOOD DRIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 20 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