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GENERAL NEEDS LTD

EIN 47-3930824 E NORTHPORT, NY

Revenue 2025
$357,217
Expenses 2025
$476,790

Program services were 87.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W30
Classification
1000
Street
297 LARKFIELD RD UNIT 761

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

TO PROVIDE THE BASIC NECESSITIES OF LIFE THROUGH FINANCIAL AND MATERIAL DONATIONS TO THE HOMELESS AND VETERANS IN NEED.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE THE BASIC NECESSITIES OF LIFE THROUGH FINANCIAL AND MATERIAL DONATIONS TO THE HOMELESS AND VETERANS IN NEED

  • THE ORGANIZATION USED DONATIONS RECEIVED TO PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTE CLOTHING AND FOOD FOR THE HOMELESS AND VETERANS IN NEED. IN ADDITION, THE ORGANIZATION DISTRIBUTES BEDS AND HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES MONTHLY TO VETERANS MOVING INTO THEIR NEW HOMES. DURING THE YEAR THE ORGANIZATION HELPED MORE THAN 6800 PEOPLE.

    Expenses $416,951 · Grants $268,153 · Revenue $256,223

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.

  • Lonnie Sherman

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $47,667
    From this org
    $47,667
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Susan Sherman

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Linda Azzara

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Katrina Zendrian

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $357,217
    Expenses
    $476,790
    Contributions
    $277,937
    Grants paid
    $268,153
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $534,537
    Expenses
    $403,085
    Contributions
    $464,812
    Grants paid
    $305,560
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $223,061
    Expenses
    $313,427
    Contributions
    $209,743
    Grants paid
    $227,860
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $223,061
    Expenses
    $309,027
    Contributions
    $209,743
    Grants paid
    $223,460
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $414,689
    Expenses
    $220,407
    Contributions
    $403,359
    Grants paid
    $166,676

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
    $192,772
    Expenses
    $141,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $293,188
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $209,867
    Expenses
    $173,366
    Assets (EOY)
    $241,985
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $178,960
    Expenses
    $138,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,588
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $178,634
    Expenses
    $118,992
    Assets (EOY)
    $165,100
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $162,088
    Expenses
    $99,226
    Assets (EOY)
    $105,458
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $105,492
    Expenses
    $76,897
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,596
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $38,555
    Expenses
    $24,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,001

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 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Anthony Vitale
Mailing address
205 OAKVIEW AVEFARMINGDALE NY 11735

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

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.