Arts, Culture & Humanities
Whyhunger Inc
NEW YORK, NY
Total revenue
$5.7M
Total expenses
$5.8M
Net assets
$4.9M
Grants received
$16.2M
164 grants
EIN
132805575
Tax year
2024
Mission
Whyhunger believes a world without hunger is possible. We provide critical resources to support grassroots movements and fuel community solutions rooted in social, environmental, racial, and economic justice. We are working to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the u.s. And around the world.
Programs
3 programs
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.
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.
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: $806,476 grants $25,504general 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: $989,499 grants $118
Financials
FY 2024
Revenue
Expenses
People
24 listed
JENIQUE JONES
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
$232K
40 hrs/wk
JOY CURTIN
SR. DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ADMIN
$209K
40 hrs/wk
DIANE BLAGMAN
DIRECTOR
—
1 hrs/wk
THOMAS CHAPIN
DIRECTOR
—
1 hrs/wk
MARK CIMINO
DIRECTOR
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2 hrs/wk
RACHEL LIPSCHUTZ
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
MEISHA PORTER
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
ELIZABETH NORRIS
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
CINDY SECUNDA
CHAIRPERSON
—
3 hrs/wk
VANESSA TRINIDAD
DIRECTOR (THRU JULY 2024)
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1 hrs/wk
CARALENE ROBINSON
DIRECTOR (THRU JAN 2024)
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1 hrs/wk
MELISSA NEWHART
DIRECTOR (FROM FEB 2024)
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1 hrs/wk
DREW PIZZO
DIRECTOR (FROM DEC 2024)
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1 hrs/wk
JIMMY ZANKEL
VICE CHAIR (FROM SEPT 2024)
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2 hrs/wk
PEARL THOMPSON
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
JOJO BRIM
VICE CHAIR (THRU SEPT 2024)
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1 hrs/wk
ALYSIA STEINMANN
TREASURER
—
3 hrs/wk
ROBIN LEWIS
SECRETARY
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1 hrs/wk
LORETTA MUNOZ
MEMBER AT LARGE
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1 hrs/wk
MARK BLAKE
MEMBER AT LARGE
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3 hrs/wk
SHARON DAMELIO
SR. DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
$173K
40 hrs/wk
DEBORAH DEPOALA
SR. DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION
$167K
40 hrs/wk
LORRIE CLEVENGER
SR. CO-DIRECTOR OF US PROGRAMS
$117K
40 hrs/wk
SUZANNE BABB
SR. CO-DIRECTOR OF US PROGRAMS
$116K
40 hrs/wk
Grants received
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$16.2M from 76 funders · 164 grants · 2017–2024
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$1.6M · 1 grant · 2020
$949K · 5 grants · 2019–2023
$562K · 7 grants · 2018–2023
$500K · 1 grant · 2023
$422K · 2 grants · 2023–2024
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