WHYHUNGER INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A68Z

Classification

1200

Street

505 EIGHTH AVENUE

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

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.

• 1766-68 SECOND AVENUE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION

  EIN 47-4976439

• BG SACK WERN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION

  EIN 93-2505106

• BG SUTPHIN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION

  EIN 86-3307336

• LA CENTRAL SUPPORTIVE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION

  EIN 61-1792872

• NONPROFIT TRANSACTION ASSISTANCE CORPORATION

  EIN 87-1457561

• WEBSTER AVENUE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION

  EIN 47-2428776

Mission and programs · 2025

• THE GLOBAL MOVEMENTS PROGRAM - SUPPORTS AND PARTNERS WITH SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND NETWORKS TO BUILD INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND ADVANCE THE GOALS OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND THE BASIC RIGHTS TO FOOD, LAND, WATER AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS FOR ALL PEOPLE.

  Expenses $1,679,905 · Grants $925,293

• GRASSROOTS ACTION NETWORK - THE GRASSROOTS ACTION NETWORK WORKS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY-BASED LEADERS, ORGANIZATIONS AND NETWORKS TO BUILD A MOVEMENT FOR A JUST AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM IN THE U.S. BY SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP, WHYHUNGER WORKS TO BUILD CAPACITY FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND TO ACCELERATE THE COLLECTIVE IMPACT OF COMMUNITY-BASED STRATEGIES FOR FOOD JUSTICE.

  Expenses $1,224,096 · Grants $387,887

• ARTISTS AGAINST HUNGER AND POVERTY/HUNGERTHON - ARTISTS AGAINST HUNGER AND PROVERTY OFFERS ARTISTS, THE ARTIST COMMUNITY AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE THEIR VOICES TO SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT TO END HUNGER AND POVERTY. THROUGH AWARENESS BUILDING CAMPAIGNS, FOOD DRIVES, FUNDRAISING AND SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT, ARTISTS SUPPORT INNOVATIVE AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS FIGHTING HUNGER AND ENSURING THE RIGHT TO NUTRITIOUS FOOD FOR ALL IN COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE WORLD. HUNGERTHON IS WHYHUNGER'S SIGNATURE PUBLIC OUTREACH CAMPAIGN FEATURING A SERIES OF EVENTS AND INTERVIEWS CULMINATING IN A NATIONAL RADIOTHON THAT HAS GROWN TO BECOME A THANKSGIVING DAY TRADITION TO COMBAT HUNGER AND POVERTY.

  Expenses $989,770

• NOURISH - THE NOURISH NETWORK FOR THE RIGHT TO FOOD WORKS WITH EMERGENCY FOOD PROVIDERS, FOOD ACCESS ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITY HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER GRASSROOTS AND NATIONAL ALLIES TO TRANSFORM THE CHARITABLE RESPONSE TO HUNGER IN THE U.S. INTO A MORE EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT THAT RECOGNIZES NUTRITIOUS FOOD AS A HUMAN RIGHT. THE WHYHUNGER HOTLINE REFERS PEOPLE IN NEED ACROSS THE U.S. TO FOOD PANTRIES, SOUP KITCHENS, SUMMER MEALS SITES, GOVERNMENT NUTRITION PROGRAMS AND MODEL GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS.EXPENSES: $806,435 GRANTS $50GENERAL MEDIA FOR PROGRAM SERVICES - IMPLEMENTS THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS, MARKETING AND PROGRAMMATIC INITIATIVES THAT MAXIMIZES AWARENESS ABOUT WHYHUNGER'S WORK IN THE MOVEMENT TO END HUNGER AND POVERTY BY RAISING THE ORGANIZATION'S PROFILE AND VISIBILITY AS A TRUSTED RESOURCE AND INCREASING ENGAGEMENT ACROSS AUDIENCES AS THE VOICE OF "WHYHUNGER." ALSO WORKS TO BROADEN THE ORGANIZATION'S IMPACT AND SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT FOR FOOD JUSTICE BY CHANGING THE DOMINANT NARRATIVE FROM ADVANCING FOOD CHARITY AS THE PRIMARY SOLULUTION TO HUNGER, TO ONE THAT FOCUSES ON NUTRITIOUS FOOD AS A HUMAN RIGHT AS THE SOLUTION. THIS IS DONE THROUGH AUTHENTIC STORYTELLING, EDUCATION, ADVOCACY AND SUPPORTING PARTNER INITIATIVES. EXPENSES: $889,759 GRANTS $8,473

  Expenses $1,693,194 · Grants $8,523

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

  $6,275,046

  Expenses

  $6,846,932

  Contributions

  $6,230,802

  Grants paid

  $1,321,703

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,748,042

  Expenses

  $5,784,613

  Contributions

  $5,299,159

  Grants paid

  $1,048,412

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,345,301

  Expenses

  $5,904,345

  Contributions

  $6,417,620

  Grants paid

  $1,825,748

• 2022

  Revenue

  $7,043,577

  Expenses

  $6,200,021

  Contributions

  $7,041,858

  Grants paid

  $2,768,885

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

  $7,869,621

  Expenses

  $6,765,053

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,607,325

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,968,619

  Expenses

  $5,186,726

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,294,478

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,426,466

  Expenses

  $3,338,834

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,084,752

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,947,397

  Expenses

  $2,958,115

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,024,483

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,899,455

  Expenses

  $2,879,911

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,059,491

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,619,353

  Expenses

  $3,194,533

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,817,738

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

• NIWESKOK

  $485,075

  2023 · FIGHT HUNGER

• INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC

  $224,102

  2022 · FIGHT HUNGER

• NEIGHBORS TOGETHER

  $189,989

  2022 · FIGHT HUNGER

• THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC

  $189,989

  2022 · FIGHT HUNGER

• CENTER FOR IDEAS EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE

  $175,000

  2022 · FIGHT HUNGER

• MARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC

  $102,500

  2022 · FIGHT HUNGER

• 4DASOIL

  $95,000

  2023 · FIGHT HUNGER

• RID-ALL FOUNDATION INC

  $91,239

  2022 · FIGHT HUNGER

• MARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC

  $85,000

  2023 · FIGHT HUNGER

• MARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC

  $80,000

  2024 · FIGHT HUNGER

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• SIXDEGREES ORG

  $1,435,584

  2022 · TO SUPPORT FINDING SOLUTIONS AGAINST HUNGER & POVERTY.

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $776,040

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $725,700

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $137,925

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $101,800

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC

  $98,000

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $94,700

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• PLEDGELING FOUNDATION

  $77,140

  2023 · GENERAL

• OUR CHANGE FOUNDATION

  $63,477

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $62,375

  2022 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

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

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