Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC
COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,732,936 to it, the largest being The Klarman Family Foundation ($1,625,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Commonwealth Kitchen Inc does
Mission
Cwk's mission is to build a new food economy grounded in racial, social and economic justice by strengthening the capacity, connections, and collective power of diverse entrepreneurs to start and grow successful food businesses. To accomplish this mission, cwk operates greater boston's only nonprofit food business development center and food manufacturing social enterprise.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Ready to launch: with so many people starting informal food businesses over the past year, and now looking for support, we're currently adapting our start-up programming into a new 16-week start-up program, an extension of our signature food biz 101, intended for businesses that are about to launch in cwk's shared kitchens. The expanded program covers all of the basics - from permits to how to create invoices, to financial management and pricing. Ready to launch will ensure a strong start to new businesses that launch at commonwealth kitchen.network support: when state and federal money became available, commonwealth kitchen jumped into action, spreading the word about resources and hosting numerous webinars in collaboration with usc and others to give entrepreneurs access to the answers they need to take advantage of resources available. We also launched a food business listserv, providing advice and peer networking for 200+ businesses. Restaurant resiliency: this program will provide a network of deep support to small restaurants across the region through a facebook group. Despite the enormous challenges of 2020, cwk was able to support our vital, baseline business education and…
$6,140,767 spent$4,446,583 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,140,767.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.0M to $15M (+140%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Jennifer Faigel
Executive director
Board chair
Sheldon Lloyd
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $600k → $2.1M.
11 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. 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
COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
34% 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 COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 36% · 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2021 36% · 2022 37% · 2023 42% — 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
39% of COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
79% of COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record — $770k federal, $3.0M state.
- Department of Agriculture$770k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.3M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$710k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$380
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMONWEALTH 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cwk196 LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMONWEALTH 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 COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC?
- COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,732,936 to it, the largest being The Klarman Family Foundation ($1,625,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $14,732,936 in grants to COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC?
- The Klarman Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 62 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