COOKING FOR COMMUNITY
EIN 85-0968956
What they do
Cooking for Community Raises Money In Order to Partner With Restaurants to Provide Healthy and Nutritious Meals to Those Most In Need. Our Reach Into The Community Has Been Significant. We Are An All-volunteer Organization, With Countless Hours Logged By A Dedicated Team of Professionals Who Put This Work Into Motion. As A Result, We Keep Our Overhead to Near-nothing With Over 97% of Monies Raised Going Directly to Programming. We Bring Together Restaurants, Social Service Agencies, Local Government, Foundations, Businesses and Coalition Groups to Create A Network of Over 40 Partnering Organizations. Consequently We Have Been Able to Serve Delicious and Nutritious Meals to Our Neighbors Who Are Often Most At Risk: The Elderly, The Unsheltered, Immigrants, Low Income. We Have Continued to Expand The Network of Restaurants and Social Service Agencies That We Work With As Well As Our Geographic Reach. During The Past Fiscal Year, C4C Stopped Actively Raising Money. In Furtherance of Our C
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They name their leaders5 people are listed in the latest report.
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How each $100 of revenue was used
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Money in and money out
Reported spending amounts
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Leadership and board
Names, titles, time, and compensation below are reported by the organization on its Form 990.
No compensation was reported for these leaders. The complete board and leadership roster is shown below.
Board and leadership roster (5)
CAROLINE TESCHKEVICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR
ELLIE LINEN LOWDIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT
KRISTINA KNIGHTDIRECTOR
NANCY SUNDIRECTOR AND TREASURER
YORK CHI HARDERDIRECTOR AND SECRETARY
About this charity
- Location
- 60 Waites Landing Road, Falmouth, ME 04103
- County
- Cumberland
- In care of
- Yorkchi Harder
- Primary officer
- Yorkchi Harder, Director
How to reach them
Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2022
- Tax period began
- April 1, 2022
- Return type
- 990EZ
- Grant-giving organization
- Yes