Desire Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
863926426
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Orlando, FL, USA
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Homeless Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$160,059
Expenses
$169,224
Assets
$10,031

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Nick Maharaj (President)
  • Jennifer Hilaire (CEO Executive Director)
  • Michele Bosch (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Nick Maharaj (President)
  • Maureen Robinson Hudas (Board of Director)
  • David Akintonde (Board of Director)

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

The Desire Foundation combats food insecurity by ensuring access to nutritious food promoting healthy eating habits and supporting individuals with health challenges to enhance their diets and overall well-being.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program: Project 814 Food Security: Distributing nutritious food to needy families and individuals. Educating communities on healthy eating habits and nutrition. Health and Wellness: Supporting those with health challenges to improve their diets.Promoting programs that address the link between food and overall well-being.Community Empowerment: Partnering with organizations to connect underserved individuals with essential resources.Creating programs that uplift underserved communities and reduce poverty. The Desire Foundation adopts a hands-on approach leveraging partnerships volunteer efforts and community collaboration to ensure maximum impact. By addressing the root causes of food insecurity and providing accessible resources we aim to create lasting change for Orlandos most vulnerable populations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 42.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -62.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $164K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.