South Carolina · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH
COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH (South Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $584,883 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($167,352). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $388k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $585k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Community Kitchen Inc of Myrtle Beach does
Mission
The mission is to feed the hungry and eliminate hunger in our community. Last year, we fed over 101,000 adults in our general feeding program and nourished 32,644 children in our childrens hunger initiative program (chip). Every person who comes to us for assistance is welcomed
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of feeding the hubgry. Every person who comes to us for assistance is welcomed for a free meal. Those who come to us are the working poor, senior citizens, veterans, children, the homeless,transients and the physically and mentally challenged. Last year we fed 99,000 guests
$314,055 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $314,055.
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 2019 to 2020, from $768k to $991k (+29%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 3% · 2021 8% · 2022 8% · 2023 10% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Rj Spatafore
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $32k → $98k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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 KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 65% · 2019 39% · 2020 53% · 2021 53% · 2022 36% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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
44% of COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
52% of COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $281k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH runs a healthier operating margin 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 KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH?
- COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH (South Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $584,883 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($167,352). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $584,883 in grants to COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $167,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 17 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