Les Dames D'escoffier Ltd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
132997628
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
5024561851
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Recreational l Clubs

Reported finances

Revenue
$136,100
Expenses
$158,084
Assets
$268,560
Liabilities
$13,606

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JILL KREUTZER ORENT (PRESIDENT)
  • PAT COBE (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KAREN GOODLAD (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • BOBBIE LLOYD (DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE)
  • DAWN PADMORE (DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE)
  • KELLY MITCHELL (DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE)

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 premier, invitational, non-profit organization of women leaders dedicated to education, advocacy, and philanthropy through the support of its partners and members in the food, fine beverage and hospitality industries. Our main mission is education, advocacy and philanthropy in food, fine beverage, and hospitality.

What it reported doing in 2025

Ldny provides scholarships to young women who are looking to start a career in the culinary field. During 2025, ldny awarded $57,798 in scholarships to 22 talented young future chefs. It is the mission of ldny to encourage, grow, mentor, and support future leaders in the culinary field and to forge important connections for them as they start their pursuit of a career in the culinary world. Each scholarship recipient is matched with a mentor within their chosen career field who provides career-building guidance.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 43% for direct work, and 57% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 64.7%; rating input score 65

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: -16.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 64.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $102K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • 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 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.