Lunch Bunch Community Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934407145
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3238231246
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $356,423
- Expenses
- $180,953
- Assets
- $224,466
- Liabilities
- $46,835
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FREYA ESTRELLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NATASHA CASE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- FREYA ESTRELLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $35,625 total reported compensation
- NATASHA CASE (PRESIDENT): $16,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To revolutionize children's nutrition and steam-focused educational experiences through innovative enrichment programs and healthier food products which integrate food as a catalyst for learning, creativity, and health, empowering young minds to embrace self-agency and lifelong healthy habits.
What it reported doing in 2025
Cdfa - culinary enrichment programming at compton unified school district and other partner schools in southern California.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 86% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 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: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.5%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $37.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 49.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.5% of revenue deployed · 77.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $141K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 39/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.