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ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC

ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $675,468 to it, the largest being United Way of Northeast Kentucky ($321,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$358k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$675k
Net assets
$526k
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Ashland Community Kitchen Inc does

Mission

To offer meals on a daily basis to those in need of food

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of ashland community kitchen is to offer meals on a daily basis to those in need. Over 48000 meals were provided free of charge to the needy by providing a noon time meal each weekday and evening meals ever weekday each week.

    $308,182 spent$2,731 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $308,182.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($338k) Expenses 100 ($342k) Net assets 100 ($364k)2018 Revenue 106 ($360k) Expenses 127 ($434k) Net assets 76 ($277k)2019 Revenue 107 ($362k) Expenses 112 ($384k) Net assets 75 ($272k)2020 Revenue 143 ($484k) Expenses 112 ($382k) Net assets 110 ($399k)2021 Revenue 115 ($389k) Expenses 109 ($374k) Net assets 118 ($430k)2022 Revenue 124 ($419k) Expenses 100 ($342k) Net assets 120 ($437k)2023 Revenue 73 ($248k) Expenses 80 ($275k) Net assets 122 ($446k)2024 Revenue 116 ($392k) Expenses 118 ($404k) Net assets 128 ($467k)2025 Revenue 106 ($358k) Expenses 103 ($351k) Net assets 144 ($526k)
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Revenue (106)Expenses (103)Net assets (144)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $273k to $401k (+47%).

$371k
$288k
$273k
$401k
$430k
$437k
$445k
$467k
$525k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’17
−$74k
’18
−$22k
’19
$102k
’20
$15k
’21
$77k
’22
−$27k
’23
−$12k
’24
$6k
’25
9.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Tj Torgerson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed101013121313141513
Joined·+0+3+0+1+0+1+3+0
No longer listed·00100022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $106k → $36k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC.

48%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 52% · 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 65% · 2022 46% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

63% of ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

91% of ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

OH
KY
WV
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Kentucky

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC?
ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $675,468 to it, the largest being United Way of Northeast Kentucky ($321,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $675,468 in grants to ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC?
United Way of Northeast Kentucky is the largest funder on record, with $321,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing