The Culinary Trust Co Under Control LLC
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521333505
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5034904235
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nutrition
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,949
- Expenses
- $177,578
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Judith Dern (Director)
- Alexa Van de Walle (Board Chair)
- Adam Salomone (Director)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Culinary Trust gives culinary professionals the tools and opportunites to understand and act on critical issues in the world of food. The mission is fulfilled through educational programs, grants for hunger alleviation, culinary history preservation and, most notably, scholarships, internships, and grants for students and professionals.
What it reported doing in 2018
Scholarships, Grants and Professional Development Program: As the philanthropic partner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, co-founded by the late Julia Child in 1984, The Culinary Trust has awarded nearly $1,500,000 through its scholarship program, assisting more than 500 talented individuals from all over the world in their pursuit of culinary knowledge and education. Each year, The Culinary Trust partners with a variety of culinary schools (based on donor commitment and roster changes year to year)and nonprofits focusing on youth nutrition education and hunger relief to offer scholarships and professional develoment internships. Also, The Culinary Trust and The Boston Foundation both offer an independent study grant to a culinary professional doing research and writing. All scholarships, grants and professional development opportunities are application based and are open to anyone who meets the qualifying criteria; the awardees are selected through a rigorous evaluation process by a team dedicated to application review.
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 99% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,087.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $153K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2009 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.