Food Rescue US
Legal name: Food Rescue Us Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274486556
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Stamford, CT, USA
- Phone
- +1 (800) 280-3298
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nutrition
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,303,846
- Expenses
- $83,694,818
- Assets
- $1,212,704
- Liabilities
- $92,564
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHARON ENRIGHT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (Beg 11/25))
Highest reported compensation
- Melissa Spiesman (Int. Exec. Dir. (Thru 10/25)): $94,222 total reported compensation
- SHARON ENRIGHT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (Beg 11/25)): $30,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Coordinate the transfer of excess donated food from food service organizations to community organizations who serve the food-insecure. Stay in the know with all things Food Rescue US, join our mailing list today and support us in our mission! URL This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Instagram This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
What it reported doing in 2025
To coordinate the transfer of end-of-day and expiring resources from food service organizations who serve the food-insecure.
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.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: $186.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 65th 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: 0.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 98.4% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $83M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.