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Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts at a glance

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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.

$259k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$494kFood & Nutrition$440kEducation$317kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kEmployment$50kInternational$50kPhilanthropy$30kEnvironment$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Edible Schoolyard Project$50,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$25,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$15,000
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$15,000
LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL$15,000
HERITAGE RADIO NETWORK INC$15,000
The Land Institute$15,000
OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10k → 16%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
DC
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 20 repeat orgs$403k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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20

Total granted

$1.1M
$318k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+91%

Still filing today

60%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionEmploymentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $197k · revenue +19%
  • TO
    THE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +20%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue ×11

Funded once

  • NA
    North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systemsgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +280%
  • TS
    THE SANDE YOUTH PROJECT CULTURE CUISINE COMMUNI
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +70%
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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
5
Institute of Food Technologists

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,…

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6
The James Beard Foundation Inc

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…

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7
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health
10
Ie New York College

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Education
11
United States Naval Institute

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.

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12
Center for Science in the Public Interest

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edward Charles Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $93,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYLES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL INC: $54,000 · OtherLES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL INCTHE SANDE YOUTH PROJECT CULTURE CUISINE COMMUNI: $50,000 · OtherTHE SANDE YOUTH PROJECT CULTURE CUISINE…CULINARY HISTORIANS OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · OtherCULINARY HISTORIANS OF NEW YORKIndividual grant recipient: $33,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOU…SANTA BARBARA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATIO: $25,000 · OtherAMRICAN FRIENDS OF THE OXFORD SYMPOSIUM ON FOOD &: $23,000 · OtherCAREERS CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM: $20,000 · OtherCULINARY HISTORIANS OF NY: $20,000 · Other+16 more: $129,500 · Other+16 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $196,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONTHE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJEC…HERITAGE RADIO NETWORK INC: $82,500 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE RADIO NETWORK INCCOMMON THREADS: $77,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMON THREADS+2 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $90,000 · EducationCULINARY INSTITU…The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $50,000 · EducationThe Edible Schoo…JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationJOHNSON & WALES …UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SO…+2 more: $3,200 · EducationNorth American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD TANK THE THINK TANK FOR FOOD: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100,000 · InternationalEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $20,000 · EmploymentJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $2,000 · Employment
Other$528,500Arts & Culture$481,500Education$218,200Food & Nutrition$110,000International$100,000Human Services$60,000Employment$22,000

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 budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $196,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC: $105,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $93,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE RADIO NETWORK INC: $82,500 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetCOMMON THREADS: $77,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL INC: $54,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNorth American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD TANK THE THINK TANK FOR FOOD: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Land Institute: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF NEARWEST CHICAGO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMDS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVID CENTER: $700 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts 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 47 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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