Dandelion Kitchen

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992505755
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Berkeley, CA, USA
Phone
5105456612
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$172,933
Expenses
$70,191
Assets
$145,703

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Veronica Volny (President)

People named in this filing

  • Robert Biniaz (Chair)
  • Veronica Volny (President)
  • Suzanne Schafer (Sec./Treas.)

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

Dandelion Kitchen prepares meals for food insecure community members using primarily recovered ingredients.

What it reported doing in 2025

Dandelion Kitchen reduces food waste and increases access to nutritious prepared food by recovering high-quality surplus ingredients from local food businesses and farms and transforming them into nourishing meals for community members experiencing food insecurity. In 2025 Dandelion Kitchen recovered more than 6 tons of ingredients and prepared approximately 27,000 servings of food. Meals were distributed through a network of community partners serving people experiencing homelessness and housing instability, low-income families and students, people undergoing cancer treatment, and other community members facing barriers to obtaining nutritious food. Through this work, Dandelion Kitchen simultaneously addresses food insecurity and food waste while strengthening a community-based network of food donors, volunteers, and nonprofit partners.

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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 57
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 36.5%; rating input score 37
  • Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90

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: 59.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 68.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 36.5% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.

Key Signals

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

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.