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CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY

EIN 52-2165893 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$4,330,556
Expenses 2024
$3,150,566

Program services were 74.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K01
Classification
1200
Street
455 MARKET ST STE 1940

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).

Other organizations at this address

6 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1940). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

See Schedule O

  • Genetically Engineered (GE) Crops (also called Agricultural Biotechnology): CFS continued its work challenging USDA and other government agencies for not adequately reviewing the environmental and economic impacts of GE Crops. This work included submiting policy comments to these agencies to ensure they are are complying with environmental and other laws, and educating the public and poliymakers about the impacts of GE Crops.

    Expenses $1,553,498

  • Animal Factories:CFSs impact litigation, legislative proposals, and policy initiatives aim to end the toxic pollution and inhumane treatment of animals in animal factories, also known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). At the same time, our litigation has and will continue to protect our oceans by halting the development of industrial aquaculture in U.S waters.

    Expenses $521,093

  • Pollinators & Species Protection: Through impact litigation, policy initiaties, aand public campaigns, CFS works to stop the use of toxic chemicals in industrial agriculture that endanger our pollinators, other sensitive and endangered species,and that destroy their habitat.

    Expenses $167,074

  • Organic: CFS works to maintain and enhance strong organic standards that live up to the quality and integrity that consumers expect from organic products including foods, clothing personal care products such as cosmetics, and pet foods through legal actions, policy comments, and public education. Climate: CFS work involves a systematic approach to limiting agricultural practices that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions

    Expenses $106,684

  • and advancing regenerative and agro-ecological practices that enhance climate resilience and sequester atmospheric carbon.

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.

  • Andrew Kimbrell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Randy Hayes

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amy Bricker

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Deborah Koons Garcia

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • George Naylor

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • George Kimbrell

    Co Executive Director/Legal Director

    Total calculated
    $201,099
    From this org
    $171,896
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,203
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,896
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,440
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,763
    Filer's total
    $201,099
  • Amy Van Saun

    Senior Attorney

    Total calculated
    $107,366
    From this org
    $100,248
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,118
    Hours/week
    40
  • Sylvia Wu

    Co Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $175,007
    From this org
    $154,316
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,691
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,316
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,691
    Filer's total
    $175,007
  • Ashley Lukens

    Director of Digital Communication

    Total calculated
    $129,389
    From this org
    $111,683
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,706
    Hours/week
    40
  • Dr Vandana Shiva PhD

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $4,330,556
    Expenses
    $3,150,566
    Contributions
    $2,293,060
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,997,319
    Expenses
    $4,001,171
    Contributions
    $2,137,127
    Grants paid
    $130,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,194,590
    Expenses
    $3,996,271
    Contributions
    $2,662,750
    Grants paid
    $130,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,194,588
    Expenses
    $3,977,790
    Contributions
    $2,662,806
    Grants paid
    $130,000

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
    $4,782,800
    Expenses
    $3,732,624
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,028,407
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,323,614
    Expenses
    $3,662,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,956,784
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,278,125
    Expenses
    $3,421,324
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,318,531
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,416,236
    Expenses
    $3,539,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,074,050
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,418,315
    Expenses
    $4,380,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,141,243
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,417,627
    Expenses
    $4,380,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,141,243
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,641,510
    Expenses
    $5,248,663
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,024,012
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,720,841
    Expenses
    $6,213,212
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,740,445
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,231,088
    Expenses
    $5,517,022
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,156,609
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,936,286
    Expenses
    $4,496,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,486,317

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.