Verde Vida
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994964300
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9172886995
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,130
- Expenses
- $163,973
- Assets
- $11,157
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- George Espinal (President)
- Miladis Flores (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- George Espinal (President)
- Miladis Flores (Vice President)
- Nelson German (Treasurer)
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
Verde Vida is a charitable organization dedicated to reducing food insecurity and improving equitable access to fresh, nutritious, and culturally relevant food in underserved communities. The organization operates community-based food access programs, including client-choice produce distributions, food rescue initiatives, nutrition and culinary education, and community outreach. Verde Vida works primarily in communities experiencing persistent barriers to affordable healthy food and partners with schools, nonprofit organizations, food businesses, volunteers, and community stakeholders to recover and distribute nutritious food that might otherwise go to waste. Its programs are designed to preserve dignity by allowing participants to select foods that meet their household needs and cultural preferences without unnecessary administrative barriers. Verde Vida also promotes education, community engagement, and advocacy around hunger, food waste, nutrition, and equitable food systems.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education and Community Engagement During 2025, Verde Vida continued developing community-centered programming designed to address food insecurity beyond emergency food distribution. The organization engaged residents, volunteers, schools, nonprofit partners, and other community stakeholders around nutrition, healthy food access, food rescue, and the needs of families experiencing food insecurity. Verde Vida used its food distribution activities as opportunities to strengthen relationships with residents, identify community needs, connect participants with available resources, and build greater awareness of hunger and food waste. The organization also continued developing educational, culinary, and advocacy initiatives intended to complement its direct food access work and support a longer-term approach to improving community food security. Volunteer engagement remained an important component of these activities and helped increase community participation in Verde Vida's charitable mission.
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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.6%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $164K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.