Cook for Your Life Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260525634
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2127993894
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $109,315
- Expenses
- $124,210
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANN OGDEN GAFFNEY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANN OGDEN GAFFNEY (PRESIDENT): $16,154 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Everyone touched by cancer should be empowered to eat better and stay healthier regardless of financial status or ethnicity. At cook for your life, our mission is to teach healthy cooking to people touched by cancer. We take on cancer in the kitchen.our subscription free website, designed by people with cancer for people with cancer, gives patients back an element of control over one important aspect of their lives - their food. Our unique search engine addresses nutritional concerns during cancer treatment and on into survivorship, while our cooking videos and easy recipes provide basic cooking and shopping skills needed to turn nutritional advice from dieticians into real food.everyone touched by cancer should be empowered to eat better and stay healthier regardless of their financial status. Cook for your life is here to do just that.
What it reported doing in 2019
Teach cancer patients and survivors how to eat and cook healthy through maintaining website and education. The orgnaization contributed its ownership of the eduaction website to the fred hutchinson cancer research center
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 46.6%; rating input score 47
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 13%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53% of revenue deployed · 46.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2019
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.