The Global Hunger Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942443282
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122519100
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,214,703
- Expenses
- $22,369,234
- Assets
- $25,985,378
- Liabilities
- $3,451,252
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNA RECUBER (DEPUTY CEO (EFF 02/2025)/GLOBAL VP)
- ROWLANDS KAOTCHA (CEO (EFF 02/2025)/CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER)
- TIMOTHY PREWITT (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER & PRESIDENT (THRU 02/2025))
Highest reported compensation
- TIMOTHY PREWITT (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER & PRESIDENT (THRU 02/2025)): $345,158 total reported compensation
- ROWLANDS KAOTCHA (CEO (EFF 02/2025)/CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $320,077 total reported compensation
- JENNA RECUBER (DEPUTY CEO (EFF 02/2025)/GLOBAL VP): $302,044 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The hunger project is working to create a world without hunger through women-centered, holistic development strategies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. In 2025, it reached nearly 12.7 million people in over 10,000 communities throughout africa, south asia and latin (see on schedule o)
What it reported doing in 2025
Africa - the foundation of the hunger project's work in africa is the epicenter strategy, which mobilizes clusters of rural villages that encompass 5,000 to 15,000 people into "epicenters" where empowered individuals and communities take the reins of their own development and unlock local capacity for change. Community members at epicenters create a vision for a self-reliant future and then work together to achieve it through community-led programs that improve food security, nutrition, health, education, women's leadership and income-generation. At the end of 2025, 90 epicenters reaching nearly 1.4 million people-53% of whom are women-had declared self-reliance. This means they have the confidence, capacity, and skills to act as agents of their own development and continue to make sustainable progress. In addition to working with active epicenter communities, the hunger project is also leveraging its core community mobilization and leadership development strategies to advance sector-specific community priorities, such as reforestation, maternal and childhood health and nutrition, water and sanitation, land conservation, and agricultural entrepreneurship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.8%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Pass
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
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: 11.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.8% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $16.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $345K · 17 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $630K reported
- Consistency: 44 of 44 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.