Les Dames DEscoffier - Austin Chapter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200691437
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2023205784
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,770
- Expenses
- $100,473
- Assets
- $232,019
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ha Lam (President)
- Katrina Ferraro (President)
- Traci Velebil (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ha Lam (President)
- Katrina Ferraro (President)
- Traci Velebil (Vice President)
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
The purposes of Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter are:* To further the knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of food, wine, and the arts of the table in the tradition of Auguste Escoffier.* To promote the education and advancement of, and to offer advice and assistance to, women in careers related to food, wine, fine beverage, and hospitality.* To raise and disburse funds for food, wine, fine beverage, and hospitality, educational scholarship funds and other worthy, charitable, beneficial or educational projects.* To provide business grants aimed at improving and advancing current women-owned businesses related to food, wine, fine beverage, and hospitality.* To promote high standards in the supply, preparation, and service of food and beverage.* To disseminate such information that advances the purpose and interests of the Chapter.* To raise and disburse funds for worthy charitable and educational projects.* To maintain affiliation with Les Dames dEscoffier International.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through collaboration, community service, and education-focused initiatives, we worked to strengthen and elevate the voices of women in the culinary, beverage, and hospitality industries. Scholarships and grants were awarded for food and beverage classes, wine education, business courses and all things educational.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 89% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.2%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 63.8%; rating input score 64
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: 21.4%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.31; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.2% of revenue deployed · 63.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.