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SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON

EIN 47-1173622 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2025
$1,211,286
Expenses 2025
$801,305

Program services were 98.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
8825 KNIGHT RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO BUILD A HEALTHIER HOUSTON BY PROVIDING UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS WITH CONVENIENT, AFFORDABLE ACCESS TO NUTRITIOUS FOOD THAT WOULD OTHERWISE GO TO WASTE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS WITH ACCESS TO NUTRITIOUS FOOD THAT WOULD OTHERWISE GO TO WASTE.

  • AS HOUSTON'S LEADING PREPARED AND PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE ORGANIZATION, SECOND SERVINGS PICKS UP UNSOLD AND UNSERVED FOOD FROM MORE THAN 400 FOOD BUSINESSES AND DELIVERS IT DIRECTLY TO 140 LOCAL NONPROFITS. IN OUR FIRST 10 YEARS, WE DELIVERED OVER $110 MILLION WORTH OF FOOD AND DIVERTED OVER 15 MILLION POUNDS AWAY FROM THE LANDFILL. OUR FOOD HELPS NOURISH ABOUT 200,000 HOUSTONIANS ANNUALLY. USING OUR PROVEN, SCALABLE "SAME DAY PICKUP AND DELIVERY" MODEL, WHICH MAXIMIZES FOOD FRESHNESS AND MINIMIZES COSTS, WE HAVE DELIVERED $40 WORTH OF FOOD FOR EVERY DOLLAR WE SPENT. FOOD RESCUE IS BOTH AN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT APPROACH TO THE CHALLENGES OF FOOD INSECURITY AND FOOD WASTE. OUR PRESIDENT CONTINUES TO LEAD THE FAST-GROWING ORGANIZATION ON A FULL-TIME PRO BONO BASIS.

    Expenses $788,385

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Barbara Bronstein

    PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Greg Dillard

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew Bronstein

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ann Al-Bahish

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bernard Freeman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Gilbert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Martin D Bronstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Seernani

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Philip Tenenbaum

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,211,286
    Expenses
    $801,305
    Contributions
    $1,108,275
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,309,433
    Expenses
    $691,788
    Contributions
    $1,206,088
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,226,162
    Expenses
    $535,439
    Contributions
    $1,163,072
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $876,341
    Expenses
    $530,617
    Contributions
    $858,352
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,312,086
    Expenses
    $536,191
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,162,190

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,310,057
    Expenses
    $458,635
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,414,685

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $537,640
    Expenses
    $268,622
    Assets (EOY)
    $536,940

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Barbara Bronstein
Mailing address
3104 Edloe St Suite 350Houston TX 77027
Website
www.secondservingshouston.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.