Kinship MKE Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463422131
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4143011478
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,920,637
- Expenses
- $3,633,959
- Assets
- $20,321,715
- Liabilities
- $251,318
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vincent Noth (President CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Vincent Noth (President CEO): $140,011 total reported compensation
- Jennifer Mehr (Advancement Director): $125,610 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kinship Community Food Center engages volunteers and neighborhood residents to end hunger isolation and poverty. Our innovative programs nourish food security and wellness foster belonging and community engagement and empower stability and economic prosperity in our city.
What it reported doing in 2025
When a person walks into Kinship Community Food Center Organization he or she enters a social ecosystem created around food designed to propel his or her journey toward health belonging and stability. As people shop cook grow and share food they find social connectedness and support that generates the confidence to achieve their goals. The Organization offers several programs which address food scarcity and help the whole person thrive. They are briefly described below: Shop | Fresh Food Market Shop is a fresh food market that integrates health education cooking demonstrations a food bar and connections to community resources. In 2025 466,000 pounds of food were given to more than 19,000 community members. The Organization served breakfasts & dinners from our community kitchen and held food preparation demos provided by community chefs. Nearly 90% of our community members say they are now cooking at home because of shopping at our fresh food market. Grow | Urban Farm To feed and educate the community the Organization operated a 27,000 square foot urban hoop house vegetable farm and gardens that grew over 20,000 pounds of fresh local and organic produce in 2025. The Organization partnered with Maglio Company to operate the farm. Feast | Collaborative Meals Feast is a collaborative meal that brings a diverse group around a common table to explore food traditions and whole food culinary skills. Nearly 700 community members participated in wellness events in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.6%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 77.2%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.59; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.6% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 46 of 46 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.