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BRACKENS KITCHEN INC

EIN 46-2633171 GARDEN GROVE, CA

Revenue 2025
$7,679,196
Expenses 2025
$7,367,538

Program services were 92.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
13941 NAUTILUS DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Through food rescue, culinary training and our community feeding program, we are committed to rescuing, re-purposing and restoring both food and lives.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Through food rescue, culinary training and our community feeding program, we are committed torescuing, re-purposing and restoring both food and lives.

  • Community Feeding ProgramAt the heart of our work is a commitment to feed our friends and neighbors in need. In Orange County over 450,000 people struggle with food insecurity and the ability to put a meal on their tables. In LA County and Southern California as a whole that number is much, much higher. We come to work every day excited to do what we love most, cook tasty and nutritious meals for our friends and neighbors in need. From breakfast for our seniors right here in Garden Grove, to hot lunches for our struggling college students in Santa Ana to a complete hot dinner for families, seniors and veterans all across southern California we're honored to work in this space. We are able to do this not only by cooking meals but with our food truck and a network of over 75 community partners who help to get our meals into the hands of those who need it most. Looking ahead our 2026 goal is to provide 2.2 million meals throughout orange county.

    Expenses $3,310,017 · Revenue $4,135,295

  • Rescued Food ProgramOur rescued food program powers all that we do here at the kitchen. It is estimated that we are still wasting up to 40% of our food supply. Food that if properly managed could have been used to feed our friends and neighbors in need. We leverage existing relationships and build new and exciting ones to ensure that high quality edible food comes to us and not the dumpster. Once rescued we're able to turn these food items into nutritious meals for our friends and neighbors in need. Ugly produce, meat and chicken that didn't sell and had to be frozen, overproduction of sauces, dressings and convenience items, off spec items and produce left in the field are just a few examples of the many areas in which we rescue food. Our goal in 2026 is to rescue more than 400 tons of food.

    Expenses $3,254,532 · Revenue $3,254,532

  • Culinary Training ProgramNow in our 9th class of students our culinary training program has grown into a very important part of the work we do. Like the age old saying, give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day, teach him to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime. The perfect statement to describe our work in culinary training. While we recognize that not every student may become a famous Chef, every student will have the foundation for, not only a career in food service, but they'll have a better understanding and appreciation for how to cook and provide for their own families.

    Expenses $273,645 · Revenue $171,961

  • Expenses $8,309 · Revenue $97,408

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Molly Bracken

    Secretary & Dir of Hospitality

    Total calculated
    $90,865
    From this org
    $90,865
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Hilda Jusuf

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Douglas Schonfeld

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Zschach

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Krista Koch

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William Bracken

    President

    Total calculated
    $241,981
    From this org
    $241,981
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $211,489
    Bonus
    $30,492
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $241,981

  • Kris Kirk

    Director if Culinary Operatins

    Total calculated
    $101,218
    From this org
    $101,218
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $7,679,196
    Expenses
    $7,367,538
    Contributions
    $5,475,393
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,961,642
    Expenses
    $6,794,746
    Contributions
    $4,929,966
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,948,462
    Expenses
    $6,783,195
    Contributions
    $5,530,925
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,361,957
    Expenses
    $4,506,170
    Contributions
    $4,015,061
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,516,521
    Expenses
    $4,283,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,559,707

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,941,186
    Expenses
    $3,974,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,282,210

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,514,316
    Expenses
    $1,952,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,278,396

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,300,373
    Expenses
    $948,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $597,746

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $667,337
    Expenses
    $584,004
    Assets (EOY)
    $239,911

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $259,914
    Expenses
    $159,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,980

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $131,522
    Expenses
    $107,055
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,428

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
William Bracken
Mailing address
9643 TurtledovveFountain Valley CA 92708
Website
www.BrackensKitchen.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.