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GLOBAL CHILD NUTRITION FOUNDATION

EIN 20-5094658 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2025
$602,947
Expenses 2025
$798,717

Program services were 87.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q33
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 99435

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

GCNF WORKS TOGETHER WITH GOVERNMENT LEADERS AND A DIVERSE NETWORK OF PARTNERS AROUND THE WORLD TO DELIVER SUSTAINABLE AND NUTRITIOUS SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS THAT GIVE EVERY CHILD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AND THRIVE.

  • THE GLOBAL SURVEY OF SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS WAS PILOTED IN 2018 AND LAUNCHED IN 2019. THE GLOBAL SURVEY IS USED TO DEVELOP A BASELINE DATABASE ON THE CURRENT STATE OF SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS IN 169 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. A PROCESS OF COLLECTING FEEDBACK FROM STAKEHOLDERS AND MODIFYING AND TRANSLATING THE GLOBAL SURVEY TOOK PLACE THROUGHOUT 2023. DATA COLLECTION FOR THE THIRD ROUND OF THE SURVEY BEGAN IN MID-NOVEMBER 2023 AND WRAPPED UP IN LATE 2024. THE FOURTH SURVEY ROUND IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE IN 2027.

    Expenses $411,396

  • THE GLOBAL CHILD NUTRITION FORUM IS A LEARNING EXCHANGE AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CONFERENCE HELD TO SUPPORT COUNTRIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS. IT ENCOURAGES OPEN DIALOGUE AND THE SHARING OF EXPERIENCES, BEST PRACTICES, LESSONS, CHALLENGES AND OPTIONS TO SUSTAINABLY SUPPORT NUTRITIOUS, HOME-GROWN SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS. THE NEXT FORUM IS SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 2026.

    Expenses $146,318

  • GCNF GENERATES AND DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE THAT STRENGTHENS THE FIELD OF SCHOOL FEEDING AND SUPPORTS EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING. THIS BODY OF WORK INCLUDES TARGETED RESEARCH STUDIES, CONTRIBUTIONS TO GLOBAL POLICY DIALOGUES AND ADVOCACY EFFORTS, AND DISSEMINATION.

    Expenses $143,554 · Revenue $196,090

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.

  • RON KLEINMAN MD

    BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATE HOUSTON MS

    BOARD VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RAFAEL FABREGA

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ASHLEIGH BLACK

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KRYSTA HARDEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MICHELE FITE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SUSAN NEELY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • VALERIE NKAMGANG BEMO MD MPH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • HEIDI SPAHN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • TINA MAY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • EMILY MA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAVID HONG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CINDY LONG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ARLENE MITCHELL

    VOLUNTEER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • HEIDI KESSLER

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $156,632
    From this org
    $145,547
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,085
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,547
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,444
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,641
    Filer's total
    $156,632

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $602,947
    Expenses
    $798,717
    Contributions
    $321,512
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,551,606
    Expenses
    $1,336,097
    Contributions
    $1,390,546
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,846,643
    Expenses
    $645,206
    Contributions
    $1,842,412
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $849,148
    Expenses
    $722,658
    Contributions
    $754,017
    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
    $460,240
    Expenses
    $649,735
    Assets (EOY)
    $680,214

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $816,867
    Expenses
    $640,228
    Assets (EOY)
    $913,825

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $250,923
    Expenses
    $243,728
    Assets (EOY)
    $270,708

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $694,323
    Expenses
    $304,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $403,819

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $659,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,682

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.