North Carolina · Nonprofit
COOKING ON PURPOSE
COOKING ON PURPOSE (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being ARDMORE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $-1612
What Cooking on Purpose does
Mission
To give free and discounted health education to underserved communities. Also giving free or discounted lifestyle medicine services to individuals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided free individual lifestyle medicine services to 3/5 persons seen for individual services. Provided free cooking classes for ~55 individuals at community cooking and health education workshops. Provided health educations as various festivals for hundreds of individuals in attendance.
$8,694 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,694.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Shayla Nettey
CEO and Co-Founder
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of COOKING ON PURPOSE’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.
Where its funders are
COOKING ON PURPOSE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
COOKING ON PURPOSE receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like COOKING ON PURPOSE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COOKING ON PURPOSE: 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 COOKING ON PURPOSE?
- COOKING ON PURPOSE (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being ARDMORE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOKING ON PURPOSE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to COOKING ON PURPOSE.
- Who is the largest funder of COOKING ON PURPOSE?
- ARDMORE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOKING ON PURPOSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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