Canstruction New York Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270954448
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9175420101
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,993
- Expenses
- $43,710
- Assets
- $40,676
- Liabilities
- $1,102
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY KATHRYN DEVLIN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARY KATHRYN DEVLIN (PRESIDENT)
- ANNIE TAN (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To engage, amaze and inspire the community to work together raising canned food to feed hundreds of thousands of hunrgy people.form 990-ez, part iii, line 28- statement of program service accomplishmentsthe organization sponsors the nyc "canstruction" competition event annually. The event is an international competition where architects, engineers, contractors and students they mentor compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food. At the close of the competition all of the food from the nyc competition is donated to "city harvest". The donated food benefitted thousands of families in the nyc area.
What it reported doing in 2025
See schedule 0
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.1%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.9%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.1% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.