Tamikas School of Epicure Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 845171909
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9046254684
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,467
- Expenses
- $128,940
- Assets
- $16,173
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tamika Wolfe McKenzie (CEO/ Founder)
- Heyta Diaz (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Tamika Wolfe McKenzie (CEO/ Founder)
- Heyta Diaz (Vice President)
- Tiffany Freeman (Treasurer)
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
The primary exempt reason is because we are a charitable organization. To provide culinary education, nutrition training, and food security resources to underserved youth and families, promoting healthy lifestyles, workforce readiness, and community well-being
What it reported doing in 2025
Tamika's School of Epicure achieved significant impact in carrying out its exempt purpose of providing culinary education, nutrition training, and food security to underserved youth and families. Over the past year, we provided hands-on culinary classes to over 600 youth, hosted nutrition workshops for families, and distributed food to thousands of community members through weekly distributions. We also launched a mentoring program, hosted community wellness events, and expanded our reach by offering behavioral health services. These efforts advanced our mission to promote healthy lifestyles, increase food access, and empower youth with life skills and workforce readiness training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 47.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -41.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.