Edible Leftovers Inc
Overview
Mission
The primary exempt purpose is to collect edible food and supplies (leftovers) from restaurants and catering facilities for donation or distribution to charitable institutions, and to the poor and needy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Collection and distribution of edible food and supplies (leftovers)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133880579
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Headquarters
- Chestnut Ridge, NY, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and available reserves provide a limited financial cushion.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 76%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.76; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.3% of revenue deployed · 76% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $141K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.