Earth Matter

What Earth Matter does

Earth Matter is a small United States-based non-profit organization founded in 2009 and headquartered in Manhattan, with a stated headcount of 1-10 employees. Per the firmographic record, the organization's core function is processing food and landscape waste, alongside providing composting education, training, and community volunteer programs. The entity operates as a private non-profit (no IPO, no public ticker) and its primary geographic footprint is local to New York City based on the registered address and the community-volunteer framing of its programming.

The organization's product surface is service-based rather than technology-based. Its "products" are waste-processing services (handling organic inputs from food and landscape sources), educational programs in composting practices, structured training offerings, and volunteer engagement initiatives. No underlying technology stack, proprietary platform, software products, apps, or API integrations are disclosed in the available source data, and the company's own website returned only a loader/verification placeholder, indicating that no technical product surface could be verified. There are no patents, trademarks, certifications, or compliance credentials listed.

Earth Matter's business model is consistent with a community-scale non-profit: the absence of disclosed revenue, pricing, or commercial customer segments in the source material suggests the organization is funded through grants, donations, municipal partnerships, and possibly modest program fees rather than a traditional SaaS or product GTM motion. No go-to-market channels, distribution channels, select customers, or partnership alliances are documented in the input. As a result, the company's commercial mechanics cannot be triangulated from the available data and should be treated as opaque, with the website non-responsiveness further limiting verification.

Name

Earth Matter

Website

https://earthmatter.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Earth Matter is a Manhattan-based non-profit founded in 2009 that processes food and landscape waste and delivers composting education, training, and community volunteer programs to local participants in New York City.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Composting and Organic Waste Management Services

NAICS

Compost Manufacturing (325315)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Organics Collection & Processing (Composting/Anaerobic Digestion) (IMAIAFAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Organics & Composting Programs (Food Waste, Green Waste) (BPABALAC), Yard Waste, Land Clearing & Green Waste Processing (Mulch/Compost Feedstock) (BPALAEAG), Organics (Food/Yard) Collection (Residential & Commercial) (EUAIAAAO)

Keywords

• Composting services
• Food waste processing
• Landscape waste recycling
• Composting education
• Community volunteer programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Manhattan

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

Earth Matter is a nonprofit organization that processes food and landscape waste through composting and delivers composting-related education, training, and community volunteer programs. Its operations focus on diverting organic material from landfill and building local capacity to compost through hands-on community engagement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles2 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Lower East Side Ecology Center: NYC-based nonprofit that operates one of the city's main compost sites (East River Park) and runs community composting education and volunteer programs — directly comparable mission and operating model to Earth Matter in Manhattan.
• Big Reuse: NYC nonprofit that processes food and yard waste into compost and operates the Brooklyn Compost Project together with DSNY; directly comparable as a NYC-based organics processing and education nonprofit.

Broad incumbents

• GrowNYC: Larger NYC environmental nonprofit that runs Greenmarket, food waste composting drop-offs, and recycling education; broader mandate than Earth Matter but overlapping compost processing and education programming.

Emerging players

• BK Rot: Brooklyn-based compost collection service operating as a worker-owned cooperative; overlaps with Earth Matter's mission but focused on paid subscription collection rather than volunteer-driven drop-off and education.

Regional players

• Compost Crew: Mid-Atlantic subscription curbside compost collection service; comparable organics processing business model but operates in suburban Maryland/Virginia rather than Manhattan.
• Bootstrap Compost: Philadelphia-area residential and commercial compost collection service; comparable small-scale urban organics collection and processing model but in a different metro.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/EarthMatterNY
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/earth-matterny

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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