Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC
THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $334,984 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($163,284). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $335k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Campus Kitchen Project Inc does
Mission
To use service as a tool to strengthen bodies by using existing resources to meet hunger and nutritional needs in our community; empower minds by providing leadership and service learning opportunities to students and educational benefits to adults, seniors, children, and families in need; and build communities by fostering a new generation of community-minded adults through resourceful and mutually beneficial partnerships among students, social service agencies, businesses and schools.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 2001, the campus kitchens project is the national program of renowned local nonprofit and social enterprise, dc central kitchen. On 60 plus university and high school campuses across the country, students transform unused food from dining halls, grocery stores, restaurants, and farmers' markets into meals for their community. Because food alone will never end hunger, campus kitchens also develop innovative local solutions that go 'beyond the meal and target hunger's root causes. Running a campus kitchen builds leadership skills, offers entrepreneurial opportunities, and fosters personal and community relationships that students both use today and carry with them into future careers. The organization has dissolved and has ceased its programmatic operations.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.2M to $581k (−51%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $116k → $142k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $200k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The DC Central Kitchen Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 67% · 2019 42% — 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
THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k 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.
Organizations like THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The DC Central Kitchen Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC: 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 THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC?
- THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $334,984 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($163,284). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $334,984 in grants to THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $163,284 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 5 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