Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
043294783
IRS 990-PF coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-PF 2024
Location
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Phone
8053081591
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Private Grantmaking Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,126,477
Expenses
$783,123

Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Overview

Mission

Private Grantmaking Foundations

What it reported funding in 2024

The foundation reported 19 filed grant rows totaling $259,250. The stated grant purposes included to subsidize student attendance at the 2024 oxford symposium on food and cookery, to expand and encourage the worldwide culinary cultural community by cultivating the next generation of food scholars, to support the julia child student writing awards, and unrestricted, plus 12 other reported purposes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 62% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The foundation combined direct charitable work with grants to other organizations or people.
  • Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and the filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.

Rating breakdown

  • Grant Deployment: 100
  • Cost Efficiency: 33
  • Transparency: 100
  • Compliance: 98
  • Endowment Health: 89

Detailed rating inputs

Grant Deployment

  • Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Cost Efficiency

  • Grant expense ratio: 33.1%; rating input score 33; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency

  • Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100

Compliance

  • Foundation activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
    • Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
    • Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
    • Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
    • Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Payment to a government official: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
    • Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
    • Excess business holdings: Pass
    • Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
    • Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
    • Attempt to influence an election: Pass
    • Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes: Pass
    • Grants outside qualifying charitable organization categories: Pass
    • Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
    • Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
  • Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100

Endowment Health

  • Endowment-health comparison: 31.94; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
  • Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
  • Trustees: Filed trustees detail
  • Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
  • Investments: 89th percentile for endowment coverage
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 22 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 33/100.
  • Review — Compliance: Foundation activity disclosures: Compensation paid to a disqualified person not reported.