American Culinary Federation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251692403
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4127090330
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,166
- Expenses
- $37,558
- Assets
- $185,437
- Liabilities
- $5,636
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gary R Klinefelter (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Brian D Buskey (Board Member)
- Gary R Klinefelter (Vice-President)
- Scott J Burkhard (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promotes culinary arts & professional development along with advancement opportunites for its members.
What it reported doing in 2024
Promotes culinary arts & professional developmnent for its100+ members through monthly educational meetings & cooking demonstrations averaging 30 particpants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -801.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.94; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.