California · Nonprofit
KITCHENS FOR GOOD
KITCHENS FOR GOOD (California) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,607,873 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($1,044,170). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 127
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Kitchens for Good does
Mission
To transform lives through culinary arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Project Kitchen: This program contains the Organizations revenue-generating food enterprises, which provide paid on-the-job training hours to the apprentices. Previously, this program included the Organizations catering enterprise. This program currently includes the concession contract at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park concert venue in San Diego. This contract is managed and operated by a culinary graduate and provides paid on-the-job training to the hospitality apprentices.
$2,710,160 spent$3,034,468 earned by the program43% of program spendingProject Launch: Our tuition-free, CA state certified, 20-month Apprenticeship Programs help individuals facing barriers to employment gain the skills needed to create sustainable careers. The Organization offers support services to the apprentices for the duration of their journey. We currently have three Apprenticeship tracks: Culinary, Hospitality and Baking.
$2,562,290 spent41% of program spendingThe SHOP: This is a retail store opened in January 2022 that resells donated gently-used (and new or never-used) kitchenware, cookware, dinnerware, select home dcor, and specialty items made by social enterprises, mission-aligned partners, or current/former apprentices..
$661,474 spent10% of program spendingWORKS: This program launched in April 2022 and is a staffing social enterprise that builds a bridge between individuals facing barriers to employment and San Diegos robust hospitality industry by placing the Organizations apprentices into jobs. It provides human resources and support services to our apprentices and mitigates the challenges of onboarding for our employer partners.
$389,511 spent6% of program spendingProject Nourish: The Organization rescues surplus and cosmetically imperfect food from wholesalers and farmers and transforms these ingredients into nutritious meals. These healthy meals are distributed to high-need communities including at risk youth, low-income seniors, and various unsheltered and low-income individuals through partnerships with local nonprofit agencies.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,323,435.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $4.7M (+92%).
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 12% · 2018 19% · 2019 14% · 2020 17% · 2021 24% · 2022 34% · 2023 41% · 2024 39% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jennifer Gilmore
CEO
Board chair
Mike Irwin
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $743k → $1.1M.
15 of 127 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 KITCHENS FOR GOOD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 127 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
KITCHENS FOR GOOD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
40% 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 KITCHENS FOR GOOD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 13% · 2019 23% · 2020 16% · 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 14% — 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
34% of KITCHENS FOR GOOD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
62% of KITCHENS FOR GOOD's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Organizations like KITCHENS FOR GOOD
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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 KITCHENS FOR GOOD: 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 KITCHENS FOR GOOD?
- KITCHENS FOR GOOD (California) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,607,873 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($1,044,170). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KITCHENS FOR GOOD have?
- IRS filings report 127 organizations giving $9,607,873 in grants to KITCHENS FOR GOOD, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KITCHENS FOR GOOD?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,044,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KITCHENS FOR GOOD 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.
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 127 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