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NGA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION

EIN 54-1634757 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$2,223,205
Expenses 2024
$2,149,245

Program services were 82.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
601 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW STE 375N

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

Mission

IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY IN ALL KEY AREAS OF THE GROCERY INDUSTRY INCLUDING OPERATIONS, INFORMATION SHARING, EDUCATION, AND RESEARCH.

Activities or mission (Part I)

IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY IN ALL KEY AREAS OF THE GROCERY INDUSTRY.

  • TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE & TRAINING CENTER: THROUGH A GRANT FROM THE FAIR FOOD NETWORK, THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES NO-COST TECHNICAL AND PROGRAM ASSISTANCE TO FOOD RETAILERS TO INCENTIVIZE PURCHASES OF HEALTHY PRODUCE.

    Expenses $1,229,254 · Grants $11,110

  • SCHOLARSHIP: THE NGA FOUNDATION PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF LEGACY DONORS TO STUDENTS PURSUING CAREERS IN GROCERY.

    Expenses $284,383 · Grants $41,750 · Revenue $52,836

  • EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP WITH CORNELL UNIVERSITY, THE NGA FOUNDATION OFFERS THE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TO RISING EXECUTIVES IN INDEPENDENT GROCERY.

    Expenses $255,215 · Grants $28,000 · Revenue $192,169

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • BRAD MORRIS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DANTE FRANCESCHELLI

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • HEIDI HUFF

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • NICK NICKITAS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JENNIFER BOSMA

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • CAROLINE CATOE

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • KIRK CLARK

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • RON GRAFF JR

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • MICHELLE MENDOZA

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • RICKY VOLPE

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • GREGORY FERRARA

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $916,712
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $816,194
    Other
    $100,518
    Hours/week
    5 + 32.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $590,742 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $189,750 related
    Other
    $0 + $35,702 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $69,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $31,518 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $916,712 related

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
    $2,223,205
    Expenses
    $2,149,245
    Contributions
    $1,816,343
    Grants paid
    $80,860
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,704,367
    Expenses
    $1,917,698
    Contributions
    $1,439,304
    Grants paid
    $84,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,394,302
    Expenses
    $1,452,852
    Contributions
    $1,223,681
    Grants paid
    $73,695

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
    $1,427,099
    Expenses
    $1,343,230
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,700,194
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,198,425
    Expenses
    $1,137,767
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,541,994
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $565,182
    Expenses
    $601,854
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,374,097
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,128,958
    Expenses
    $411,330
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,615,055
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $380,060
    Expenses
    $441,113
    Assets (EOY)
    $793,756
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $60,693
    Expenses
    $29,027
    Assets (EOY)
    $776,288
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $46,262
    Expenses
    $9,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $145,574
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $80,080
    Expenses
    $20,490
    Assets (EOY)
    $107,488
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $37,219
    Expenses
    $6,947
    Assets (EOY)
    $129,871
  • 2009 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $2,600
    Expenses
    $2,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,662

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts 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 SOUNK.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.