Future of Food Entrepreneurship Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922673948
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
2155253593
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development - Business

Reported finances

Revenue
$97
Expenses
$12,509
Assets
$14,663

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • RYAN SHADRICK WILSON (CHAIR)
  • NAN SHIPLEY (CO-CHAIR)
  • ALEXIS ROSENZWEIG (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to broaden the horizons of young students by connecting them with cutting-edge, leading companies in the sustainable food space. The future of food entrepreneurship program empowers and prepares historically disenfranchised high school students to become leaders within the emerging foodtech and agtech sectors.

What it reported doing in 2025

During an immersive month-long program in the bay area, students work on a product challenge: to identify a problem within the food system and prototype a company that solves that problem. As part of the program coursework, students work with mba students. The graduate students offer guidance about entrepreneurship, helping our students understand the challenges new companies face in the sustainable food space. Students also participate in weekly sessions led by mba students and professors. These sessions inform and inspire the students to apply their newfound knowledge in the product challenge. Our company participants provide the students with unparalleld access to leadership and innovators within the sustainable food sector. At the end of the month-long program, students present their product ideas in front of an audience.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 60.7%; rating input score 61

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12,795.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -123.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -127.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 60.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.