Culikid Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812664500
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
6312911166
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$119,452
Expenses
$124,633
Assets
$11,353
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kelley Bligh (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kelley Bligh (Executive Director)
  • Nancy Molesworth (Board Chair)
  • Burhan Halilov (Board Director)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Empower neurodiverse people through healthy culinary programs

What it reported doing in 2024

Popup Cooking Classes take place virtually once per month as well as occasionally in-person at partner locations throughout NYC. Virtual classes are free and open to all ages and abilities. In-person popup classes are for ages 5-13. All classes aim to improve healthy eating, independence, social skills, and motor skills. In 2024, Culikid hosted 11 free virtual popup cooking classes, attended by 136 people. Culikid also hosted 2 in-person popup classes, attended by 30 people.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 61% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77

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: -4.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 25.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 29.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.