Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY COOKS INC
COMMUNITY COOKS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,006,053 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($310,217). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $684k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $555k
What Community Cooks Inc does
Mission
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. The agency organizes the volunteers who purchase and cook the meals primarily in their own homes. The agency coordinates the distribution of the meals using partner organizations for delivery. The aim is to feed hungry neighbors who might otherwise go without, build a bridge of caring between volunteers and community members in need and support conditions for participants to achieve success by alleviating their hunger needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our current 750+ volunteers prepare and deliver home cooked meals that serve over 2,000 neighbors in need each month who are seeking services at our 34 greater boston partner human service agencies. These partner agencies serve vulnerable populations including survivors of domestic violence and their children; individuals struggling with addiction; homeless adults and families; veterans; street involved youth; youth in foster care residential facilities; children receive emergency food services via after-school programs; low-income elders; individuals with mental health issues; and families with children receiving cancer treatment at boston-area hospitals.
$423,017 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $423,017.
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 2023 to 2024, from $474k to $620k (+31%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 8% · 2023 9% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of COMMUNITY COOKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Daniele Levine
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $54k → $94k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 COMMUNITY COOKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
COMMUNITY COOKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 COMMUNITY COOKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 46% · 2019 50% · 2020 28% · 2021 40% · 2022 30% · 2023 53% — 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
61% of COMMUNITY COOKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
89% of COMMUNITY COOKS 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. $450k 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
COMMUNITY COOKS INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY COOKS 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY COOKS 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 COMMUNITY COOKS INC?
- COMMUNITY COOKS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,006,053 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($310,217). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY COOKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,006,053 in grants to COMMUNITY COOKS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY COOKS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $310,217 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY COOKS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing