City Harvest
Legal name: City Harvest Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133170676
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464120600
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $215,716,670
- Expenses
- $223,277,038
- Assets
- $228,900,917
- Liabilities
- $132,037,938
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
50 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JILLY STEPHENS (CEO/NON-VOTING BOARD MEMBER)
- MICHAEL FOWLES (VICE PRESIDENT OF SUPPLY CHAIN)
- SARAH ANNE REUL (VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPMENT)
- MARILYN ANDZESKI (VICE PRESIDENT OF FACILITIES)
Highest reported compensation
- JILLY STEPHENS (CEO/NON-VOTING BOARD MEMBER): $818,558 total reported compensation
- RENEE RICHARDSON (CFAO (THRU 09/2024)): $429,139 total reported compensation
- GREGORY BOROFF (CHIEF EXTERNAL RELATIONS OFFICER): $409,993 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
City Harvest rescues perfectly good, nutritious food that would otherwise go to waste and delivers it for free to New Yorkers experiencing hunger. NYC’s first and largest food rescue organization I’d like to get involved Volunteer. From volunteer opportunities to field trips, there are plenty of ways children can get involved with City Harvest. Get Involved Stay Connected.
What it reported doing in 2024
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Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 79.9%; rating input score 80; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 95.9% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 37 of 37 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $206.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $819K · 50 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $13.5M reported
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 65 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 55 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.