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Tales of the Cocktail Foundation Inc

Tales of the cocktail foundation is a non-profit organization that educates, advances, and supports the global hospitality industry and creates lasting impact in host communities.

$226k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$107kEmployment$78kHealth$61kPublic Safety & Disaster$42kFood & Nutrition$20kPhilanthropy$20kCommunity Improvement$13kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $44,078, the rows itemized in this filing. The $225,613 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $181,535 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$32,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$531k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIU FOUNDATION INC$32,400
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF NEW OR$11,678
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 (FY18–23, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY: $10k → 11%CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES: $22k → 6%ANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY: $10k → 11%CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES: $10k → 6%MADE IN NEW ORLEANS (MINO) FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 23%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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$216k · 5 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$216k
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
-4%

Still filing today

60%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEmploymentArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • FF
    FIU FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $82k
  • TT
    Turning Tables
    2× · 2021–2023 · $53k · revenue +290%
  • CO
    CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LTD
    2× · 2018–2019 · $32k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • HL
    HISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -4%
  • LK
    LIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -44%
  • TG
    THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +42%
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
Culinary Hospitality Opportunities Program
Employment
2
Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd

Hot bread kitchen creates economic opportunity through culinary job skills training and placement, food entrepreneurship, and an ecosystem of support for individuals who face barriers to meaningful careers.

Human Services
3
Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association Foundation
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4
Greater New Orleans Hotel & Lodging Assn Hospitality Education Foundation

The greater new orleans hotel & lodging association hospitality education foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing hospitality education in the greater new orleans area. the foundations mission is to…

Philanthropy
5
Louisiana Restaurant Association Inc

Hospitality industry trade association

—
6
Food Jobs Work Foundation
Employment
7
The Migrant Kitchen Incorporated
Philanthropy
8
The Level Up Campaign

March 14, 2020, The Level Up Campaign exercised true heroism by launching the ongoing Crisis program, an initiative created to aid and assist individuals affected during national emergency disasters.The Level Up Campaign mission is to…

Arts & Culture
9
Support Staff

Support staff is a community of hospitality professionals collaborating with mental health professionals and community organizers to break down the stigmas of mental health and advocate for the well being of community members while also…

—
10
Friends of Codeys Nola

Dedicated to empowering food on entrepreneurs on their journey to scale by building bridges to education, collaboration, and capital.

Food & Nutrition
11
North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association Foundation Inc

The north carolina restaurant & lodging association is a philanthropic organization that supports the north carolina hospitality industry's service to the public through education, community service, community engagement, and promotion of…

Education
12
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Liberty's Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Turning Tables. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIU FOUNDATION INC: $82,400 · OtherFIU FOUNDATION INCBEVERAGE ALCOHOL RESOURCE LLC: $29,200 · OtherBEVERAGE ALCOHOL RESOURCE LLCA SIP OF PARADISE GARDEN: $20,000 · OtherA SIP OF PARADISE GARDENNOAIDS TASK FORCE: $20,000 · OtherNOAIDS TASK FORCEIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF NEW OR: $11,678 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF NEW ORCHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LTD: $31,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF RESTAUR…ANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY: $20,000 · Human ServicesANOTHER ROUND ANOTH…MADE IN NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesMADE IN NEW ORLEANS…Turning Tables: $52,500 · EmploymentTurning TablesHISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$183,278Human Services$64,000Employment$52,500Arts & Culture$25,000Education$25,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTurning Tables: $52,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LTD: $31,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNOAIDS TASK FORCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADE IN NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 5.9% 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 Greater New Orlea…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · 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 Tales of the Cocktail Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tales of the Cocktail Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 Tales of the Cocktail Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Tales of the Cocktail Foundation 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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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