New York · Nonprofit
WHYHUNGER INC
WHYHUNGER INC (New York) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,972,288 to it, the largest being SECUNDA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($6,525,000). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 140
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Whyhunger Inc does
Mission
Whyhunger believes a world without hunger is possible. We provide critical resources to support grassroots movements and fuel community solutions rooted in social, environmental, racial, and economic justice. We are working to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the u.s. And around the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The global movements program - supports and partners with social movements and networks to build international solidarity and advance the goals of food sovereignty and the basic rights to food, land, water and sustainable livelihoods for all people.
$1,679,905 spentof which $925,293 as grants30% of program spendingGrassroots action network - the grassroots action network works in partnership with community-based leaders, organizations and networks to build a movement for a just and equitable food system in the u.s. By supporting and promoting grassroots leadership, whyhunger works to build capacity for community organizing and to accelerate the collective impact of community-based strategies for food justice.
$1,224,096 spentof which $387,887 as grants22% of program spendingArtists against hunger and poverty/hungerthon - artists against hunger and proverty offers artists, the artist community and the music industry the opportunity to use their voices to support the movement to end hunger and poverty. Through awareness building campaigns, food drives, fundraising and social media engagement, artists support innovative and effective community-based organizations fighting hunger and ensuring the right to nutritious food for all in communities all across the world. Hungerthon is whyhunger's signature public outreach campaign featuring a series of events and interviews culminating in a national radiothon that has grown to become a thanksgiving day tradition to combat hunger and poverty.
$989,770 spent18% of program spendingNourish - the nourish network for the right to food works with emergency food providers, food access organizations, community health organizations and other grassroots and national allies to transform the charitable response to hunger in the u.s. Into a more equitable and inclusive social justice movement that recognizes nutritious food as a human right. The whyhunger hotline refers people in need across the u.s. To food pantries, soup kitchens, summer meals sites, government nutrition programs and model grassroots organizations.expenses: $806,435 grants $50general media for program services - implements the organizational strategic communications, marketing and programmatic initiatives that maximizes awareness about whyhunger's work in the movement to end hunger and poverty by raising the organization's profile and visibility as a trusted resource and increasing engagement across audiences as the voice of "whyhunger." also works to broaden the organization's impact and support the movement for food justice by changing the dominant narrative from advancing food charity as the primary solulution to hunger, to one that focuses on nutritious food as a human right as the solution.…
$1,693,194 spentof which $8,523 as grants30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,586,965.
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 $3.3M to $5.6M (+70%).
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: 2020 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of WHYHUNGER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Jenique Jones
Executive director
Board chair
Cindy Secunda
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $504k → $3.6M.
28 of 140 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 WHYHUNGER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 140 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
WHYHUNGER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 WHYHUNGER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 22% · 2019 31% · 2020 70% · 2021 48% · 2022 37% · 2023 49% — 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
33% of WHYHUNGER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
WHYHUNGER INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
WHYHUNGER INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WHYHUNGER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $149k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$149k
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 WHYHUNGER 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC?
- WHYHUNGER INC (New York) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,972,288 to it, the largest being SECUNDA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($6,525,000). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHYHUNGER INC have?
- IRS filings report 140 organizations giving $22,972,288 in grants to WHYHUNGER INC, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHYHUNGER INC?
- SECUNDA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHYHUNGER 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 140 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