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10 Chefs Inc

To raise funds for community-based charitable organizations in Anchorage, Alaska by hosting a chef-driven fundraising event that engages local culinary professionals, with net proceeds distributed to selected nonprofit partners.

$429k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$522kPublic Safety & Disaster$230kAnimals$224kYouth Development$209kHuman Services$187kFood & Nutrition$183kCrime & Legal$95kRecreation & Sports$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $378k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$37,754
Median grant
2
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$51,156
Big Brothers Big Sisters Alaska$37,754
American Cancer Society$37,754
Food Bank of Alaska$37,754
Alaskan Animal Rescue Foundation$37,754
AK Afterglow$37,754
Volunteers of America Alaska$37,754
Alaska Police & Fire Chaplains$37,754
Anchorage Firefighters Charitable Foundation$37,754
Alzheimer Resources of Alaska$37,754
Alaska Kidney Patients Association$37,754
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The TEARS Foundation: $40k → 9%The TEARS Foundation: $29k → 9%Tears Foundation: $25k → 9%AK Afterglow: $38k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 14 repeat orgs$264k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$1.5M
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+74%

Still filing today

93%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FB
    Food Bank of Alaska
    5× · 2019–2025 · $183k · revenue +83%
  • AK
    ALASKA KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $129k · revenue +34%
  • AP
    ALASKA POLICE & FIRE CHAPLAINS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $129k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • NA
    NAMI Alaskagraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +28% · 25% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $29k
  • GA
    GRACE ALASKA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +156%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
Alaska Childrens Alliance

Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…

Crime & Legal
3
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
4
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
5
Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation
Civil Rights
6
Alaska Mountain Rescue Group

To finding and doing basic medical to people lost or have perished in the wilderness. Our goal is to bring people home safely!

—
7
Alaska Solstice Search Dogs

Assd trains and deploys highly qualified and certified search dog teams to support and assist law enforcement and other government agencies in the search, rescue, and recovery of missing persons.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Alaska Wins

AK Wins promotes responsible economic development, fiscal policy and general prosperity by educating, engaging and empowering Alaskans on important public policy issues.

—
9
Pediatric Resource Center of Alaska
Human Services
10
Alaska Airlines Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.

Housing & Shelter
12
Alaska Impact Alliance

The alaska impact alliance is a statewide alliance of prevention partners joining communities in implementing supports for children and families.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska; the most unlike its peers is National Crisis Response Canines. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $183,497 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY I…ALASKA KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $128,954 · HealthALASKA KIDNEY PATIENTS AS…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $91,200 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR S…ALASKA POLICE & FIRE CHAPLAINS: $128,954 · OtherALASKA POLICE & FIRE CHAPLAINSAlzheimers Disease Resource Agency of Alaska: $88,910 · OtherAlzheimers Disease Resource Ag…VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $62,914 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCChallenge Alaska: $54,543 · OtherChallenge AlaskaNAMI Alaska: $29,383 · OtherNAMI AlaskaTHE SALVATION ARMY: $29,383 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYANCHORAGE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $37,754 · OtherANCHORAGE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITA…NATIONAL CRISIS RESPONSE CANINES: $25,160 · OtherALASKA MARINE COMMUNITY COALITION: $25,160 · OtherAlaskan Animal Rescue Friends: $128,954 · AnimalsAlaskan Animal…BIRD TREATMENT & LEARNING CENTER: $69,427 · AnimalsBIRD TREATMENT…STRAW FOR DOGS: $25,160 · AnimalsSTRAW FOR DOGSBoys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska: $120,583 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls …Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska: $88,910 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers …Food Bank of Alaska: $183,497 · Food & NutritionFood Bank o…Tears Foundation: $94,587 · Human ServicesTears Foun…AK Afterglow: $37,754 · Human ServicesAK Aftergl…COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $25,160 · Human ServicesCOVENANT H…PARTNERS FOR PROGRESS: $94,587 · Community ImprovementGRACE ALASKA INC: $29,383 · Community Improvement
Health$403,651Other$482,161Animals$223,541Youth Development$209,493Food & Nutrition$183,497Human Services$157,501Community Improvement$123,970

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $183,497 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Alaska: $183,497 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $128,954 over 3y, 15% of budgetALASKA POLICE & FIRE CHAPLAINS: $128,954 over 3y, 18% of budgetAlaskan Animal Rescue Friends: $128,954 over 3y, 12% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska: $120,583 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTears Foundation: $94,587 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PROGRESS: $94,587 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $91,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimers Disease Resource Agency of Alaska: $88,910 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska: $88,910 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBIRD TREATMENT & LEARNING CENTER: $69,427 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetChallenge Alaska: $54,543 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetANCHORAGE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $37,754 over 1y, 53% of budgetNAMI Alaska: $29,383 over 1y, 25% of budgetGRACE ALASKA INC: $29,383 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetSTRAW FOR DOGS: $25,160 over 1y, 39% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $25,160 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Alaska Community …Rasmuson FoundationValley Hospital Assoc…United Way of Anchora…The Carr Foundation I…Alaska Children's Tru…Richard L and Diane M…Anchorage Mayors Char…Swanson Family Founda…MEWebber FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…The Gap Foundation
The Alaska Community FoundationAK37.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · United Way of Anchorage · The Carr Foundation Inc · Alaska Children's Trust · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball · Swanson Family Foundation · MEWebber Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Gap Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 10 Chefs Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 10 Chefs Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to 10 Chefs Inc?

    Find your warmest path to 10 Chefs Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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