Community Plate
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932579698
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Gray, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2073376101
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Celebrations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $147,798
- Expenses
- $117,987
- Assets
- $44,617
- Liabilities
- $9,987
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karl Schatz (Executive Director)
- Leigh Hallett (President)
- Rachael Cerrotti (President - Former)
- Heather Kenvin (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Karl Schatz (Executive Director)
- Leigh Hallett (President)
- Rachael Cerrotti (President - Former)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Using shared meals and storytelling to address the epidemic of loneliness, social disconnection, and to build community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Storytelling Workshops: We hosted three storytelling workshops for 45 participants, training new storytellers and providing tools, support, and encouragement for sharing personal stories in public. Several storytellers who took our workshops have gone on to tell their stories at Community Plate suppers and other local storytelling events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.8%; rating input score 15
- Program expense ratio: 18.6%; rating input score 19
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 76.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 92.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 85.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.8% of revenue deployed · 18.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 15/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.