Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES
RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,381,031 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($514,036). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $434k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $355k
What Rainbow Kitchen Community Services does
Mission
Rainbow Kitchen Community Services is committed to improving the quality of life for low-income families and individuals through programs that address hunger, child nutrition, and supportive services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kids cafe program - services approximately 318 children. This program is designed to meet the needs of low-income children ages 0-18, who are at risk of hunger. This program is geared towards "latchkey" children - children whose parents will not be there when they arrive home from school.
$88,197 spent23% of program spendingBreakfast program - serves 80-100 people per day, monday through friday. Most of the breakfast participants are elderly, homeless and/or have one or more physical or mental health problems.
$114,834 spent30% of program spendingFood pantry program - the food pantry program provides at least a 5 day supply of supplemental groceries to approximately 540 households each month.
$101,198 spent27% of program spendingCase management - provides ongoing aid to participants as they work towards self-sufficiency. This program is offered to individuals and families on both a short-term and on an extended basis. Immediate assistance and advocacy are provided as needed, including referrals to other social service agencies for additional help.
$72,792 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $377,021.
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 2023 to 2024, from $706k to $468k (−34%).
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 15% · 2020 10% · 2021 17% · 2022 15% · 2023 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Matthew Bolton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $73k → $173k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES’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
RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
80% 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 RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 56% · 2019 34% · 2020 48% · 2021 30% · 2022 48% · 2023 44% — 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
46% of RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
61% of RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES'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 $545k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $836k 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
RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.4M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES
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.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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 RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,381,031 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($514,036). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,381,031 in grants to RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $514,036 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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