Long Island Cares | The Harry Chapin Food Bank

Legal name: Long Island Cares Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
112524512
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Aug 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Hauppauge, NY, USA
Phone
(631) 582-FOOD (3663)
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$40,603,930
Expenses
$38,589,296
Assets
$24,307,211
Liabilities
$4,422,868

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

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Paul Pachter (Former CEO)
  • Katherine Fritz (CEO)
  • Diana T Cecchini (Vice President)
  • Michael Deering (Vice President)
  • David E Herold (President)
  • Marc Perez (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Paul Pachter (Former CEO): $301,471 total reported compensation
  • Katherine Fritz (CEO): $236,463 total reported compensation
  • Helen Liriano (VP Finance & Admin): $181,460 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To combat hunger and food insecurity across Nassau and Suffolk Counties, while working to create a future where healthy food and essential resources are accessible to all.

What it reported doing in 2025

LICs outreach programs provide food assistance and essential support directly to communities across Nassau and Suffolk counties. Services include mobile food pantries, disaster relief, homeless outreach and homebound deliveries. These programs reduce barriers to access and help combat food insecurity with compassion and flexibility. The organization also operates pantry locations in Freeport, Huntington Station, Lindenhurst, Bethpage, Valley Stream and Hampton Bays which provide food and community outreach services to their local communities. LIC supports children with food programs and youth engagement initiatives that fight childhood hunger. From mobile school pantries and after-school meals to weekend food packs, we ensure kids have access to nutrition all year long. We proudly support veterans through food assistance and personalized referrals. Programs like Military Appreciation Tuesdays and our mobile pantry help address food insecurity and ease the transition to civilian life. We work closely with veteran service agencies to ensure every veteran gets the care and resources they deserve. LIC advocates for hunger relief and food security through the Chapin Center for Public Policy, we mobilize communities and raise awareness of the root causes of hunger across Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: $20.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 77.5%; rating input score 78; 22nd 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; 64th 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: 5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $35.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $301K · 29 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 39 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 12 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.