· Private foundation
Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Edible Schoolyard Project | $50,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $25,000 |
| HERITAGE RADIO NETWORK INC | $15,000 |
| The Land Institute | $15,000 |
| OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC | $15,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $13,750 |
| CULINARY HISTORIANS OF NEW YORK | $12,500 |
| JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| KCRW Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CAREERS CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| COMMON THREADS | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION6× · 2019–2024 · $197k · revenue +22%- TOTHE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +20%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue ×11
Funded once
- TSTHE SANDE YOUTH PROJECT CULTURE CUISINE COMMUNIone grant, 2021 · $50k
- FTFOOD TANK THE THINK TANK FOR FOODgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +138%
- NANorth American Traditional Indigenous Food Systemsgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +280%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
As an organization, the institute of food technologists is focusing its work in four main areas, or "roles and goals." each is wide-reaching and helps to advance our mission.steward for the profession and its community - provide learning,…
The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The center for science in the public interest is america's food and health watchdog. cspi envisions a healthy population with reduced impact and burden of preventable diseases and an equitable food system that makes healthy, sustainable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edward Charles Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mount Auburn Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE RADIO NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON THREADS ↗
- Who funds LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD TANK THE THINK TANK FOR FOOD ↗
- Who funds North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Collaborative Support Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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