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COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH

COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,000 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$536k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$270k
Net assets
$207k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 79%
01What it does

What Community Kitchens Collaborative Heal the Earth does

Mission

Tackle food insecurity head-on by fostering a local, sustainable food system that ensures access to nutritious, locally grown produce for all members of our community. Empower low-income entrepreneurs. Address food insecurity and expand supply chains and marketing for California-grown organic avocados, while formalizing and building relationships with hundreds of avocado growers. Rescuing food and transforming it into nutritious meals for vulnerable populations. Implement workforce training programs, empowering individuals facing barriers to employment with marketable skills. Support local farmers through direct partnerships and sustainable initiatives.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. FARMER APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING, Empower low-income entrepreneurs, fostering a local, sustainable food system that ensures access to nutritious

    $322,584 spentof which $515,192 as grants$21,757 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $322,584.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($343k) Expenses 100 ($275k) Net assets 100 ($63k)2024 Revenue 156 ($536k) Expenses 162 ($445k) Net assets 331 ($207k)
20232024
Revenue (156)Expenses (162)Net assets (331)

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 $63k to $207k (+231%).

$63k
$207k
20232024
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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$68k
’23
$92k
’24
1.1
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

Lue Charles Samuelson

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

20232024
Listed11
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH’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

COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

91% 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 KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH.

46%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

91% of COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

RI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Government funding COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.

Federal$2.5M
grants $2.5Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$2.5M

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 COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

1
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH?
COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,000 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $270,000 in grants to COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH?
THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY KITCHENS COLLABORATIVE HEAL THE EARTH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 3 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