Roslindale Food Collective Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934951322
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Roslindale, MA, USA
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,356
- Expenses
- $60,871
- Assets
- $84,126
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Leah Arteaga (Director)
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
The organizations primary exempt purpose is to alleviate food insecurity and promote equitable access to nutritious culturally relevant food by coordinating rescue purchasing supplemental produce and distributing groceries to community members to a dignified barrier free mutual aid model.
What it reported doing in 2025
Roslindale Food Collective is a grassroots community-based mutual aid food distribution program dedicated to reducing food insecurity in Roslindale and surrounding Boston neighborhoods. The organization is powered by local neighbors supporting other neighbors operating through volunteer leadership and community partnerships.The organization rescues surplus food purchases fresh produce and culturally relevant items and distributes groceries directly to individuals and families in need without barriers such as identification income verification or citizenship requirements. In 2025 Roslindale Food Collective distributed approximately 122,000 pounds of food to community members through weekly food distribution events. Food provided included fresh fruits and vegetables pantry staples dairy protein and culturally relevant items. The program prioritizes dignity accessibility and equity in food access ensuring that vulnerable populations including immigrants seniors and low-income families receive consistent and respectful support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.9%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.