Edible Schoolyard New York
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271237249
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3475650100
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,132,008
- Expenses
- $2,331,169
- Assets
- $1,917,851
- Liabilities
- $79,522
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHANON MORRIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (LEFT 2024))
- KRISTEN BALDWIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CAROLE WACEY MARAJ (INTERIM EXEC. DIRECTOR (LEFT 2024)): $156,000 total reported compensation
- SHANON MORRIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (LEFT 2024)): $107,418 total reported compensation
- KRISTEN BALDWIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $35,692 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Edible schoolyard nyc is on a mission to make edible education accessible for every child in nyc. We believe edible education-where kids experience hands-on cooking and gardening helps kids gain the skills to contribute to a healthy and sustainable food system for us all. Edible education helps students build healthy relationships with food, their community, and their environment. Together with public school communities across the city, we're building spaces for kids to flourish.
What it reported doing in 2024
Core school programmingduring the 2024-25 school year, esynyc partnered with 6 title i public schools in nyc for our core school model, reaching over 2,800 students with our edible education programming. At core sites, esynyc staff members are embedded at the school year-round. Esynyc maintains school gardens and kitchen classrooms, and in-school, afterschool, and community programming throughout the school year. Core programming serves the entire school population and is designed to teach practical cooking and gardening skills alongside other key outcomes including social-emotional learning, academic skills, deepening relationships with peers, the school community, the environment, and more. The robust programming includes: weekly kitchen and garden classes integrated into the school's curriculum; extra-curriculars such as cafeteria tastings to encourage trying new healthy foods and afterschool garden clubs; school-wide and community events such as open garden hours, community potlucks and cooking classes, school wellness initiatives, and food distribution programs. In 2024-25 the organization conducted nearly 1,500 in-school lessons and led nearly 300 extracurricular activities throughout the year, receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback from educators, families, and students on the annual surveys.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd 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: -9.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.5% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $156K · 20 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $238K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.