Germaines Culinary Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932785424
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5035679219
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational Rehabilitation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $128,805
- Expenses
- $88,194
- Assets
- $152,034
- Liabilities
- $2,865
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Lori Irish Bauman (Member, Board of Directors)
- Shaili Parekh (Secretary/Treasurer, Board of Directors)
- Sam Desue Jr (Member, Board of Directors)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of Germaine's Culinary Inc. is culinary training for people experiencing intellectual and developmental disabilities. The hands-on training that Germaine's Culinary Inc. provides prepares participants for community-based work in the food industry.
What it reported doing in 2025
On September 2, 2025, Germaine's Culinary Inc. launched Nourish & Flourish Kitchen Cohort One in Portland, Oregon. Nourish & Flourish Kitchen is a 16-week, curriculum-based culinary training program for people experiencing IDD. Six students in Cohort One prepared for work in the food industry alongside two professional chefs. Nourish & Flourish Kitchen is in session four days per week, six hours per day. Students learned safety and sanitation, cooking skills and other skills necessary to work in a commercial kitchen In addition to hands-on kitchen work, once a week students traveled into the community to visit prospective employers and learn about food systems. Students prepared resumes and participated in mock job interviews. While gaining marketable culinary skills, students prepared 100 meals per week for the free drop-in lunch hosted by First Baptist Church of Portland. Following graduation on December 19, 2025, students worked with employment specialists to apply for jobs in the food industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.3%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.5%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 139.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.3% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.