South County Peoples Kitchen
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770305498
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Arroyo Grande, CA, USA
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,836
- Expenses
- $36,317
- Assets
- $265,099
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Barbara Bellows (President)
- Cathy Gildea (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Barbara Bellows (President)
- Nancy Imwold (Secretary)
- Bernard Horton (Treasurer-CF0)
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
Since 1992 our nonprofit has been dedicated to serving the homeless and underserved by providing a daily hot meal at lunch all year round. Our committed volunteer teams prepare and serve these meals which are made possible through our organizations funding. In addition to meals we also provide vital support such as bus passes and clothing vouchers to assist those in need within our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
We provide clothing vouchers and bus transportation and sometime emergency hotel vouchers for those in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 60.6%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.3%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.3; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49% of revenue deployed · 60.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.