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COMMUNITY KITCHENS INC

EIN 85-1244770 OAKLAND, CA

Revenue 2025
$1,937,572
Expenses 2025
$1,886,669

Program services were 74.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K30
Classification
1000
Street
2270 TELEGRAPH AVE

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

We are a food justice organization that prioritizes dignity, access and connection with our community meal program.Our community meal program supports our door front outreach, community based partner meal distribution programs and youth programs with Oakland Unified School District and Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Community Kitchens' mission is to ensure that people left behind by traditional food systems can access dignified meals and pathways to a more equitable future.

  • In 2025 our Community Meal Program showed up for our clients who are often missed by traditional food systems. In 2025 we served 200,813 meals along with 175,154 pounds of groceries supporting over 2,500 unhoused and low-income families and reached over 16,000 students, nearly half of all Oakland Unified School District's kids. The growth in meal volumes was supported through our new door front distribution program at our central kitchen, serving 81,828 meals with groceries to 1,000 clients in one of the top zip codes in Alameda County that is impacted by SNAP cuts. These numbers represent quadrupled growth of impact from 2024, which reflects an increase in the number of community members experiencing food insecurity in the Bay Area, as well as the impact of federal cuts to SNAP and EBT benefits. Our clients include some of the county's most marginalized residents including the unhoused population, youth attending Title 1 schools, the elderly and individuals living below the poverty line. Our meals are distributed in 10 of the highest food insecurity areas in the Bay Area.

    Expenses $1,413,614 · Grants $391,637 · Revenue $511,185

  • Our culinary job training program supported 13 graduates and provided 9 job placements in 2025.

  • In 2025, Community Kitchens led the advocacy to secure $2 million in Alameda County funds for a prepared meal program for our unhoused community. This funding is being administered by Alameda County Community Food Bank and supports 15 community based nonprofit organizations with grants, of which Community Kitchens has one of these grants.

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.

  • Chris Pastena

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Victoria Decker

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Candice Elder

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hilary Bas

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melinda Drayton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Abel Guillen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Gulli

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dina Older-Aguilar

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nigel Jones

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $1,384
    From this org
    $1,384
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marisa Raya

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cary Weigle

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria Alderete

    Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder

    Total calculated
    $125,000
    From this org
    $125,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Richard Mitchell

    Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder

    Total calculated
    $79,167
    From this org
    $79,167
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,937,572
    Expenses
    $1,886,669
    Contributions
    $1,524,903
    Grants paid
    $391,637
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,653,862
    Expenses
    $1,346,173
    Contributions
    $1,646,421
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $991,542
    Expenses
    $1,520,917
    Contributions
    $991,542
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,668,471
    Expenses
    $1,066,814
    Contributions
    $1,668,471
    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
    $1,006,963
    Expenses
    $877,733
    Assets (EOY)
    $146,899

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $197,351
    Expenses
    $179,683
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,668

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.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.