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TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC

EIN 45-3591508 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$3,311,006
Expenses 2024
$2,776,146

Program services were 72.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
2000
Street
33 W 60TH STREET 1211

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

TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE (TFFJ) IS BUILDING A FOOD-SECURE FUTURE THROUGH SCHOOL-BASED, YOUTH-LED HYDROPONIC FARMING, PROVIDING LOCAL, SUSTAINABLY-GROWN PRODUCE TO FOOD DESERT COMMUNITIES AND BUILDING HEALTH, EDUCATION AND OPPORTUNITY EQUITY FOR ALL NEW YORKERS AND BEYOND.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CREATING ACCESS TO HEALTHY, FRESH, AFFORDABLE FOOD THROUGH YOUTH-LED HYDROPONIC FARMING.

  • LAUNCHED TWO NEW STUDENT-LED HYDROPONIC FARMS IN MANHATTAN (AT THE MURRY BERGTRAUM EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS) AND IN FAR ROCKAWAY, QUEENS (AT MS053), FEEDING A COMBINED TOTAL OF MORE THAN 1,800 STUDENTS AND ENGAGING MORE THAN 300 STUDENTS IN PROGRAMMING; EXPANDED THE ADVOCACY REACH OF OUR FOOD POLICY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM BY SUPPORTING STUDENTS IN TESTIFYING BEFORE NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL, WRITING A PUBLISHED OP-ED IN SUPPORT OF THE HEALTHY KIDS' MEAL BILL, AND SPEAKING AS PANELISTS AT A NATIONAL CONVENING HOSTED BY THE CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST (CSPI); AND HELD OUR LARGEST-EVER STUDENT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE WITH MORE THAN 100 STUDENTS FROM 14 SCHOOLS ACROSS NEW YORK CITY.

    Expenses $2,019,762 · Revenue $480,422

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.

  • KATHERINE SOLL

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $213,744
    From this org
    $210,561
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,183
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $210,561
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,183
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $213,744

  • TARA SMITH SWIBEL

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RANDOLPH STERN

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHANA CHENFELD

    VICE CHAIR AND VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIDGET ALAMEDA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VALERIE SOLL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEJANDRO MUNOZ-SUAREZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARCY WARREN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER SIEGEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • IAN FORSTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RAYMIE FERNANDEZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSHMA DWIVEDI JINDAL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BROOKE BRENNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM LOW

    DIRECTOR (THROUGH 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GABRIELLE MOSQUERA

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $165,472
    From this org
    $157,396
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,076
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $157,396
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,076
    Filer's total
    $165,472

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
    $3,311,006
    Expenses
    $2,776,146
    Contributions
    $2,735,869
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,502,593
    Expenses
    $2,450,222
    Contributions
    $2,014,436
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,847,299
    Expenses
    $1,998,003
    Contributions
    $1,600,265
    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
    $2,250,008
    Expenses
    $1,715,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,080,630

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,653,204
    Expenses
    $1,267,644
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,720,057

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,678,513
    Expenses
    $1,532,436
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,285,598

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,390,985
    Expenses
    $1,145,370
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,011,171

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,390,985
    Expenses
    $1,145,370
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,011,171

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $423,959
    Expenses
    $411,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $161,025

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $366,007
    Expenses
    $277,566
    Assets (EOY)
    $148,530

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

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.