In My Father's Kitchen
Legal name: In My Father's Kitchen Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452777205
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3153081561
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $985,384
- Expenses
- $899,413
- Assets
- $931,798
- Liabilities
- $24,188
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REV JOHN TUMINO (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- REV JOHN TUMINO (PRESIDENT): $88,389 total reported compensation
- LEIGH-ANN TUMINO (SECRETARY/FINANCE ADMIN): $67,189 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
In My Father’s Kitchen (IMFK) provides food distribution, material support, and medical assistance through direct street outreach, walking alongside people experiencing homelessness to build trust, restore dignity and hope, and guide them toward resources and housing support. We do more than provide food and necessities—we walk alongside those we serve, building relationships that restore dignity and hope. Through food distribution, material support, and medical assistance, we break down barriers that keep people feeling invisible. Our team is present, engaged, and actively involved in the lives of our friends, advocating for them when they feel unheard. We don’t just connect people to resources—we stand with them every step of the way. Whether it’s driving them to appointments, helping them access addiction and mental health support, or guiding them through the housing process, we...
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization feeds people spirit, soul and body; using food distribution, medical assistance and supplying material necessities to break down barriers, build relationships, and bring hope to those who feel invisible. The organization develops trust by building relationships that bring value and dignity to those they encounter. The organization honors those they serve by offering them a hand up not a handout, building hope to foster positive change, and challenge and educate themselves and the communituy to promote a culture of dignity and respect to those they serve.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $818K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.