Good Eats for Life Llc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843573217
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9177477961
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $194,806
- Expenses
- $276,477
- Assets
- $169,092
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bich Ngoc Thi Tran (Vice President & Treasurer)
- Adam Rosante (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Bich Ngoc Thi Tran (Vice President & Treasurer)
- Adam Rosante (President & CEO)
- Kate Rosante (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Alleviate food insecurity amongst elementary school children and promote healthy nutritional and lifestyle habits. Specifically, we distribute backpacks of shelf-stable, ready-to-eat food to elementary school children over the weekend period when they are out of school in cities such as, but not limited to, New York and Los Angeles. We purchase grocery items for distribution to disadvantaged parents of elementary school children served by the backpack program, and also provide nutritious restaurant meals to the schoolchildren, as a monthly community building activity. We identify communities of need and provide food to families with children in these areas.
What it reported doing in 2024
Good Eats for Life was founded in 2017 to address food insecurity amongst elementary school children in Harlem. We provided backpacks of shelf-stable, easy-open nutritious food items every Friday to the most vulnerable students who only eat at school. When the backpacks are returned on Monday, they are refilled with meals for the next Friday distribution. We expanded the program to Los Angeles for the 2019-2020 school year with Hillcrest Drive Elementary. We worked with the Parent Center counselors to fill the weekly packs... and expanded with Thanksgiving meal groceries to parents at the holiday. During the pandemic, the need for backpacks went away because of remote schooling. We shifted our focus to providing groceries to students' families, along with warm restaurant meals purchased from BIPOC-owned restaurants to encourage students during Grab & Go stations set up on the sidewalk in front of the school. These monthly Community Day events provided students & teachers a chance to reconnect outside & socially distanced. Schools in south LA started to contact us requesting assistance, and we welcomed the invitations to serve. Post-pandemic, we've tailored our food services to each school, providing some with Community Day meals, others with monthly groceries, meals for holiday and culmination events, or meal programs to incentivize and reward perfect attendance. Over the last three years, we've grown our serves to 8 schools in LA, and two communities in NY.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.5%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 32.1%; rating input score 32
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: -41.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 87.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -40.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.5% of revenue deployed · 32.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $89K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.