Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY
PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,250 to it, the largest being Circle Venture Inc ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Peoples Kitchen Philly does
Mission
Provide restaurant quality meals to the food insecure households of philadelphia cultivating fresh produce in areas that would be otherwise without such produce through urban gardens and providing culinary education. Said corporation is organized exclusively for charitable purposes including for such purposes the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501c3 of the internal revenue code or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Peoples Kitchen Philly is committed to fighting food insecurity. The grant from the Claneil Foundation is instrumental in helping us to achieve these goals. The population that the Peoples Kitchen serves is diverse and come with a variety of challenges. Our clients represent a variety of social economic and ethnic groups complicated by a myriad of languages and dialects who make also be undocumented. They also tend to skew older be recipients of SNAP benefits and be those for whom English is a Second Language. They may also be housing insecure as well. The Peoples Kitchen provides meals free of charge without burdening our client with having to prove they are deserving. In the last year we have provided over 20,000 meals free of charge. We also help to maintain and supply goods for a community pantry and fridge.
$30,000 spentof which $30,000 as grants86% of program spendingThe community farm now in its fourth year encompasses 30 lots of green space that is reclaimed abandoned vacant land in the southwest section of Philadelphia. The farm provides fresh vegetables fruit and herbs in a neighborhood that is traditionally underserved. The harvest goes directly to the neighbors and at the end if the growing season is also prepared and served at a free community event. The stewardship of this land and the foodways and traditions of the neighborhood is being documented in collaboration with Media Artist and Activist Gabrielle Patterson. This endeavor was underwritten by a grant from the Leeway Foundations Media Artist + Activist Residency Award. $9,000 has been received for the 2024 calendar year. $5,000 as of June 30 2024 has been used to purchase seed plants trees equipment and labor for the 2024 growing season. This project gives The Peoples Kitchen a visual record of our work.
$5,000 spentof which $9,000 as grants14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,000.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $46k to $78k (+71%).
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.
100% of PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY’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. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $11k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY’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
PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
87% 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 PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY: 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 PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY?
- PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,250 to it, the largest being Circle Venture Inc ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $84,250 in grants to PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY?
- Circle Venture Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 11 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