New York · Nonprofit
THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT
THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,385,434 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,002,697). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 158
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $23M
What The Global Hunger Project does
Mission
The hunger project is working to create a world without hunger through women-centered, holistic development strategies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. In 2025, it reached nearly 12.7 million people in over 10,000 communities throughout africa, south asia and latin (see on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Africa - the foundation of the hunger project's work in africa is the epicenter strategy, which mobilizes clusters of rural villages that encompass 5,000 to 15,000 people into "epicenters" where empowered individuals and communities take the reins of their own development and unlock local capacity for change. Community members at epicenters create a vision for a self-reliant future and then work together to achieve it through community-led programs that improve food security, nutrition, health, education, women's leadership and income-generation. At the end of 2025, 90 epicenters reaching nearly 1.4 million people-53% of whom are women-had declared self-reliance. This means they have the confidence, capacity, and skills to act as agents of their own development and continue to make sustainable progress. In addition to working with active epicenter communities, the hunger project is also leveraging its core community mobilization and leadership development strategies to advance sector-specific community priorities, such as reforestation, maternal and childhood health and nutrition, water and sanitation, land conservation, and agricultural entrepreneurship.
$10,857,724 spent67% of program spendingSouth asia - in south asia, the hunger project works to support local leadership and strengthen local governance for the end of hunger. In six states in india, thp supports the leadership development of women elected to serve in local village councils (panchayats). Each of these women are champions for advancing projects that address access to resources, social and economic development and nutrition. Additionally, thp works with adolescent girls to support them to exercise their voice and agency and make governance more responsive to their needs. In bangladesh, thp mobilizes trained local volunteers, youth, women leaders and local government representatives across 64 unions, encompassing nearly 1.7 million people, to support peaceful, effective local democracy and meet the sustainable development goals (sdgs). Community partners design and implement holistic, bottom-up strategies focused on nutrition, active citizenship, peace, income generation, food security, women's and girls' rights, and more in order to achieve the sdgs in their communities.
$3,558,694 spentof which $1,047,106 as grants22% of program spendingEducation and advocacy - since its founding, the hunger project has been focused on creating commitment among a critical mass and transforming thinking in centers of power to create a world without hunger. Its activities include creating public awareness campaigns around international days of significance like international women's day, world hunger day, international youth day and world food day. It also includes hosting events and workshops and participating in national and international forums to promote using women-centered, community-led approaches to transform the systems of inequity that create hunger and cause it to persist. The hunger project is an active leader in the global movement for community-led development (the movement), whose formation was catalyzed by the hunger project in 2015. The movement was established as an independent organization in 2024 and the hunger project continues to allocate (see on schedule o)
$988,919 spentof which $505,011 as grants6% of program spendingGlobal programs - at the global level, the hunger project's programmatic strategy and partnerships align to a strategic framework that aims to elevate community leadership and reimagine systems for the benefit of people and planet. This framework identifies three "accelerators, areas of action with the potential to rapidly transform policies, practices and resource flows. These "accelerators" are: amplifying collective voice, amplifying the power of next generational leadership, and amplifying engagement with the private sector. The hunger project's global programs are continuously monitored and evaluated to understand and demonstrate impact and drive learning. Its approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning is also community-centered, supporting people in local communities to develop metrics of success, track progress, and reflect on lessons learned.
$828,799 spent5% of program spendingLatin america - in mexico and peru, thp supports community-led development initiatives that elevate the most marginalized people, particularly indigenous women. In mexico, the hunger project supports communities to achieve their community-owned visions, including work to ignite sustainable local entrepreneurship, build effective relationships with local governments, empower women and girls with leadership development and support networks, promote economic resilience and ensure food security and nutrition. In peru, the hunger project works with a partner organization, chirapaq, a coalition of indigenous organizations who are promoting access to opportunities, the exercise of women's and indigenous rights, and collaboration with local and regional governments.
$36,280 spentof which $766,271 as grants0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,270,416.
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 2022 to 2023, from $19M to $24M (+25%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 5% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Sheree Stomberg
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 39 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.6M.
38 of 158 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 158 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 GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 25% · 2021 19% · 2022 30% · 2023 28% — 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
46% of THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
51% of THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT'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 $9.5M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 26 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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 GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Agency for International Development$1.1M
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 GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Hunger Project (India) · exempt
- The Hunger Project Ac Mexico · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: 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 GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT?
- THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,385,434 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,002,697). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 158 organizations giving $19,385,434 in grants to THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT, 91 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,002,697 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 158 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