Community Kitchen Pittsburgh

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
901009621
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Phone
4122464736
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Soup Kitchens

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,479,207
Expenses
$4,207,699
Assets
$2,896,570
Liabilities
$521,985

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MIMI FALBO (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNIFER FLANAGAN (EXECUTIVE DI): $109,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Community kitchen pittsburgh is a nonprofit food service company. Because poverty, food insecurity and employment are entwined issues, we work across these focus areas, engaging in the following activities: "culinary based workforce training: we offer a 12 week culinary based training program targeting chronically unemployed, low-income individuals with barriers to employment. Our clients are transitioning from incarceration, homelessness, addiction and other barriers. We provide applied training in our commissary kitchen based on an established, proven curriculum, along with remedial math, financial literary, service referrals & employability skills. We work with clients on job search & placement, and follow them for 12 months post-placement to ensure retention. "food services: we utilize tens of thousands of pounds of short-shelf-life fresh product every month that otherwise would be thrown away, and use that to prepare nutritious food for struggling individuals and families through c

What it reported doing in 2024

Workforce development: culinary training program we operate two workforce programs that are integrated into several social enterprise food service business lines for on-the-job training and experience. We also operate four registered apprenticeship tracks though pa dept of labor & industry. We cover about 50% of our budget through earned revenue from our social enterprises, and the rest comes from charitable donations and goverment workforce training contracts. We provide culinary training to hardto-serve, chronically unemployed adults. Our culinary training program is a 12-week full-time program that prepares adults for work in the food service industry. Our clients come to us experiencing homelessness, incarceration, addiction, mental illness, poverty, trauma, lack of education (including a percentage without a ged or hs diploma), and usually a combination of two or more of these major barriers to employment. We also provide transitional employment to adults with culinary experience who are serving the last 3 to 4 months of a jail/prison sentence and dealing with reentry challenges. We provide temporary employment to bridge their release, assist with transitional difficulties (often this includes securing approved housing postrelease), and help them obtain permanent employment. Community kitchen pittsburgh is a key partner in a community-focused career pathway system for ex-offenders and other chronically un/under-employed individuals. We integrate best practices and evidence-based programming models from around the country beginning with recruiting an individual (client), identifying and supporting their needs, following their specific training and placement, supporting them in retention and assisting them with wage progression. We also have an education and outreach department working in schools and in community settings providing cooking demonstrations, educational programming, and promotional events highlighting our social enterprises and training programs, and engaging chefs and other industry people in our mission. The impact of this programming is consistently rated very high by teachers, administrators, parents and students. We interact with around 200 students per month.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 87
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -20.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.