Community Kitchen Inc
Overview
Mission
Community Kitchen believes access to good food is a universal right. Were joining the growing Public Restaurant movement to create a restaurant model that demonstrates food can be grown, delivered, prepared, and served justly and equitably.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hired consultants David DeVaughn, Rae Gomes and Tadesh Inagaki to serve as Senior Advisors to the project; ongoing fundraising led by president/founder Mark Bittman, including building out a CRM platform and developing new fundraising materials; created organization website and logo; researched and conducted outreach to similar initiatives, including developing key long-term partnerships with several organizations, in order to inform project design; applied with the Form 1023 for 501c3 status to the Internal Revenue Service; developed budget/plan and secured funding for pilot restaurant (to be operated in 2025); developed 2025 organization budget; continued site selection search; refined impact metrics and long-term organization goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 372062874
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9176538211
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 4
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 122.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -173.9% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $236K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: FY2024.