Hannah Banana Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
262353491
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Port Washington, NY, USA
Phone
2125352191
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$761
Expenses
$1,331
Assets
$85,682

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ARIN AMANDA PRISAND (President)
  • DR GARY PRISAND (Vice President)
  • LINDA BROSTERMAN (Vice President)
  • ALLYSON PETERNO (Vice President)
  • LAUREN VINGIANO (Vice President)
  • JESSE PODELL (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • ARIN AMANDA PRISAND (President)
  • DR GARY PRISAND (Vice President)
  • JUNE PRISAND (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

Hannah Banana Foundation brightens the lives of chronically ill, hospitalized and terminally ill patients by giving theraputic gifts such as art supplies, toys, journals and activity-oriented books directly to the patients while they are in care. With "Hannah Banana" Prisand's upbeat attitude, optimistic outlook and child-like character as an inspiration, Hannah Banana Foundation aims to bring some fun to the long, bleak days in the hospital. Hannah Banana Foundation embraces positive energy and hopes that these gifts will bring smiles to those who are suffering.

What it reported doing in 2025

Current year was a successful one for Hannah Banana Foundation as it made gift distributions to New York Metropolitan area hospitals. In total, approximately 300 gift distributions were made to patients in five hospitals in New York and New Jersey including Mount Sinai, Columbia Presbyterian, NYU Langone Medical Center and Beth Israel Medical Center.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 43.7%; rating input score 44

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -74.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 64.37; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -20.5% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.3% of revenue deployed · 43.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $581 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.