4MyCiTy Inc.
Legal name: 4MyCity Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842908913
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, US
- Phone
- 4436159502
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,488,486
- Expenses
- $21,638,020
- Assets
- $606,035
- Liabilities
- $124,212
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher A Dipnarine (President CEO)
People named in this filing
- Soo Bae (Director)
- Emerald John (Director)
- Jordan GuiGui (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
4MyCiTy's mission is to reduce the environmental impact of organic waste while improving food and health security, creating economic opportunity, and empowering communities through sustainability, technology, and education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Since 2018, 4MyCiTy Inc. has rescued and redistributed over 500 million pounds of food, providing nutritious meals to more than 13,000 households (90,000 individuals) while diverting 75 million pounds of food waste from landfills through our 24-hour composting process. Our programs, Food Rescue To Go, Compost On The Go, 4MyCiTyU Job Training, and Health Connect, create jobs, reduce emissions, and improve community health. Our mobile app expanded participant tracking of savings, impact, and volunteer hours, helping families move from food insecurity to self-sufficiency and supporting our mission of Zero Waste to Zero Hunger. Since 2018, 4MyCiTy Inc. has rescued and redistributed over 315 million pounds of food, providing nutritious meals to more than 13,000 households (90,000 individuals) while diverting 55 million pounds of food waste from landfills through our 24-hour composting process. Our programs, Food Rescue To Go, Compost On The Go, 4MyCiTyU Job Training, and Health Connect, create jobs, reduce emissions, and improve community health. Our mobile app expanded participant tracking of savings, impact, and volunteer hours, helping families move from food insecurity to self-sufficiency and supporting our mission of Zero Waste to Zero Hunger.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.6%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: $532.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.5% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 12 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 99.6% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.