Food 4 Education
Legal name: Food for Education Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880664918
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 917-310-0370
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,865,723
- Expenses
- $62,520,106
- Assets
- $93,510,248
- Liabilities
- $56,803,868
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wawira Njiru (Chair and Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Wawira Njiru (Chair and Executive Director)
- Edward David (Treasurer)
- Brooks Washington (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To mainstream school feeding programs across Africa by designing, operating, and replicating efficient, nutritious, and affordable school feeding programs at scale.
What it reported doing in 2024
Food for Education Foundation Inc. supports School Feeding Program (SFP) activities - specifically with the goal of providing affordable, nutritious meals to students in public schools throughout Kenya and any other country within the continent of Africa. This work is accomplished by providing grants to organizations that are conducting that direct work in those countries. The grants provided by the organization are used to build kitchens, buy ingredients, prepare food, deliver and serve meals, conduct measurement and evaluation, develop technologies to make meal service more effective, as well as to provide general and administrative support. Through the grant assistance provided by the organization, over 70 million meals were prepared and served to children throughout Kenya in the past fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $122.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.5%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 83.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 56% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 63% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 82.2% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $61.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $706K reported
- Consistency: 46 of 46 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.