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The Trotter Legacy The Trotter Project

The mission is to create, innovate, and advances place-based culinary arts learning and promote food security.

$25k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Education$200kFood & Nutrition$95kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $24,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,600 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$364k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tarleton State University$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Island Creek Oyster Bar: $11k → 16%California Polytechnic State: $10k → 12%Dama: $6k → 14%Culinary Institute of America: $50k → 9%Monroe College: $7k → 9%Cornell University: $10k → 16%Tarleton State University: $10k → 13%World Central Kitchen: $10k → 14%Johnson & Wales - North Miami: $10k → 15%Exquisite Catering & Events: $24k → 14%Anne Arundel Community Colleg: $10k → 6%Culinary Institute of America: $20k → 9%Restaurant Relief Fund for Co: $10k → 14%Johnson & Wales - North Miami: $9k → 15%Rooh: $10k → 14%Culinary Institute of America: $10k → 9%The Fat Shallot: $14k → 14%City Colleges of Chicago Foun: $36k → 14%City Colleges of Chicago Foun: $8k → 14%Soul & Smoke: $27k → 14%Depaul University: $10k → 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

IL
NY
MA
CA
MD
DC
TX
FL
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$143k · 3 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$143k
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationInternationalFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
    3× · 2019–2021 · $80k · revenue +18%
  • CC
    City Colleges of Chicago Foundation
    2× · 2018–2019 · $44k · revenue -6%
  • JW
    JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $19k · revenue -22%

Funded once

  • CI
    Carter Investments dba Feast & Imbibe
    one grant, 2020 · $27k
  • EC
    Exquisite Catering & Events
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • TF
    The Fat Shallot
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
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
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
2
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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3
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
4
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
5
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
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
8
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
9
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Culinary Institute of America; the most unlike its peers is Depaul University. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City Colleges of Chicago Foundation: $44,041 · OtherCity Colleges of Chicago FoundationCarter Investments dba Feast & Imbibe: $26,800 · OtherCarter Investments dba Feast & ImbibeExquisite Catering & Events: $24,000 · OtherExquisite Catering & EventsThe Fat Shallot: $14,000 · OtherThe Fat ShallotIsland Creek Oyster Bar: $10,500 · OtherIsland Creek Oyster BarTarleton State University: $10,000 · OtherTarleton State UniversityRooh: $10,000 · OtherRoohANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGEMONROE COLLEGE: $7,000 · OtherCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $80,000 · EducationCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICAJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $19,000 · EducationJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITYDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA…Cornell University: $10,000 · EducationCornell UniversityWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFASHION CENTER DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOC: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Other$156,341Education$129,000International$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Community Improvement$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFASHION CENTER DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Trotter Legacy The Trotter Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Trotter Legacy The Trotter Project. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%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 · 0–30%
    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.

    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 17 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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