Urban Recipe Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270000606
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4046880871
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,283,841
- Expenses
- $2,226,447
- Assets
- $1,239,317
- Liabilities
- $57,470
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEREMY LEWIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JEREMY LEWIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $163,243 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Urban recipe promotes food security and dignity through intentionally designed community-driven food cooperatives prioritizing equitable food access, relationship building and participation in decision making.
What it reported doing in 2025
Urban recipe (ur) operates community-driven food co-ops for under-resourced individuals and families that promote food security and dignity. Through membership in a co-op families have access to a consistent source of high-quality food, including fresh produce and frozen meats, in an environment where members build relationships with one another and gain ownership of the process through their active participation. Co-ops meet bi- weekly to receive, sort, and distribute food equitably based on family size and are unique in that each co-op has a member-led steering committee and does not require members to make financial contributions. Ur supported eleven co-ops in 2025. Membership per co-op ranged from fifteen to fifty households. Co-ops serve families across 55 zip codes in metro atlanta, primarily in fulton and dekalb counties. During 2025, ur served 297 households, approx 1,100 individuals through 271 co-op meetings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 61% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $163K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.