FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

K33Z

Classification

1000

Street

59 INNER BELT 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 · 2024

• FOOD RECOVERY: FOOD FOR FREES FOOD RECOVERY PROGRAM WORKS WITH GROCERY STORES, FARMS, UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER BUSINESSES TO COLLECT FRESH AND PREPARED FOOD THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE BE DISCARDED. THIS FOOD IS THEN DISTRIBUTED TO SHELTERS, CHURCHES AND FOOD PANTRIES TO DISTRIBUTE TO THEIR COMMUNITIES. APPROXIMATELY 1.9M POUNDS OF FOOD WAS DISTRIBUTED IN FY25.

  Expenses $3,987,391 · Revenue $3,908,342

• JUST EATS: JUST EATS DISTRIBUTES GROCERY BOXES AND BULK PALLETS OF ASSORTED PRODUCE AND DRY GOOD TO LOW-INCOME HOUSING SITES, FOOD PANTRIES, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCIES IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA. VOLUNTEER GROUPS AND FOOD FOR FREE STAFF PREPARE THE BOXES AND BULK DELIVERIES, BRINGING OVER 2.8 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD TO PARTNERS EACH YEAR.

  Expenses $5,062,114 · Revenue $4,257,082

• SCHOOL MARKETS: THIS PROGRAM BRINGS FARMERS MARKET-STYLE MARKETS TO 7 PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACROSS CAMBRIDGE AND SOMERVILLE. STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES CAN SHOP FOR FRESH, HEALTHY GROCERIES FOR FREE DURING AFTER SHCOOL PICK UP TIMES ONCE A MONTH.

  Expenses $1,751,810 · Revenue $1,575,566

• THE TRANSPORTATION PARTNERSHIP: THIS PROGRAM OFFERS LOW-COST FOOD DELIVERIES FOR SMALL-SCALE FOOD PANTRIES. FOOD FOR FREE PICKS UP FOOD ORDERS FOR THESE ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK AND DELIVERS IT TO THEIR PANTRY OR FACILITY.

  Expenses $159,214

• HEAT N EATS: HEATS N EATS TRANSFORMS RESCUED PREPARED FOOD INTO SINGLE-SERVE MEALS FOR PEOPLE WITH LIMITED ACCESS TO KITCHENS. EACH FROZEN MEAL INCLUDES A SERVING OF VEGETABLES, PROTEIN AND A GRAIN OR STARCH, ALL DESIGNED FOR MICROWAVABLE CONVINIENCE.

  Expenses $521,323 · Revenue $189,029

• CARROT CARDS: CARROT CARDS SUPPORT CAMBRIDGE AND SOMERVILLE SCHOOL FAMILIES AT RISK OF HUNGER WITH GROCERY CARDS EACH MONTH TO ENSURE THE HAVE ACCESS TO FOOD ON WEEKENDS WHEN SCHOOL MEALS ARE NOT SERVED. CARROT CARDS ARE DISTRIBUTED TO OVER 1,500 FOOD-INSECURE STUDENTS AND FAMILIES ACROSS CAMBRIDGE AND SOMERVILLE.

  Expenses $403,125 · Grants $250,365 · Revenue $380,323

• HOME DELIVERY: HEALTHY EATS HOME DELIVERY SERVES LOW-INCOME CAMBRIDGE SENIORS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, BRINGING BOXES OF GROCERIES RIGHT TO THEIR DOORSTEP TWICE A MONTH. THE PROGRAM REACHES ABOUT 400 CLIENTS EACH MONTH. THE HEALTHY EATS PROGRAM ENDED IN DECEMBER 2025. OTHER HOME DELIVERY PROGRAM(S) IN WHICH FOOD FOR FREE IS A SUBCONTRACTOR ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN THESE PROGRAM FINANCIALS.

  Expenses $467,677 · Revenue $352,037

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $13,260,836

  Expenses

  $13,478,726

  Contributions

  $13,231,775

  Grants paid

  $250,365

• 2023

  Revenue

  $13,119,744

  Expenses

  $14,696,275

  Contributions

  $12,983,981

  Grants paid

  $479,097

• 2022

  Revenue

  $17,308,271

  Expenses

  $16,785,939

  Contributions

  $16,991,716

  Grants paid

  $407,000

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

  $14,501,013

  Expenses

  $14,052,271

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,183,103

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,634,666

  Expenses

  $11,049,203

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,783,712

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,642,756

  Expenses

  $6,420,177

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,360,822

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,814,490

  Expenses

  $4,782,635

  Assets (EOY)

  $832,167

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,020,001

  Expenses

  $4,964,181

  Assets (EOY)

  $790,309

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,362,357

  Expenses

  $4,286,092

  Assets (EOY)

  $729,306

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,045,841

  Expenses

  $890,753

  Assets (EOY)

  $650,030

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $673,341

  Expenses

  $673,620

  Assets (EOY)

  $463,304

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $454,328

  Assets (EOY)

  $611,473

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.

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

• CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA

  $500,000

  2024 · CHARITABLE DONATION

• CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA

  $500,000

  2023 · CHARITABLE DONATION

• CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA

  $500,000

  2022 · CHARITABLE DONATION

• CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $327,837

  2023 · FOOD

• CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $266,942

  2022

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $184,715

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• COREGIVING CO

  $184,026

  2023 · Fighting hunger in the U.S.

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $144,620

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON INC

  $127,700

  2024 · DAF - Social Services

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $115,815

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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

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