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CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM
CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM (New York) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,057,133 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($980,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Careers Through Culinary Arts Program Dba Culinary Careers Program does
Mission
Mission statement: empower under-resourced students & adults to become the next generation of leaders in food and hospitality through culinary arts education, job skills training, college scholarships, and career opportunities. Culinary careers program (ccap) is a national workforce development nonprofit dedicated to training and supporting the next generation of food and hospitality leaders. We provide culinary arts education, job skills, apprenticeships, scholarships, and career opportunities to under-resourced middle and high school students & adults. To date we have uplifted close to 400,000 students across the united states and awarded $76 million in college scholarships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CULINARY EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION - Across 8 of CCAP's regions - Arizona, Chicago, DC/Maryland, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Philadelphia - CCAP works with 25,000 youth annually, to help them pursue educational and professional opportunities via the pathway of culinary arts. CCAP culminates its school year program with culinary competitions, awarding more than $2.4 million in scholarships annually and $76 million since inception. Hundreds of previous scholarship winners have gone on to distinguished careers in the culinary and hospitality fields and beyond.
$3,686,432 spentof which $2,564,349 as grants$726,834 earned by the program77% of program spendingJOB TRAINING, CAREER ADVISING, INTERNSHIPS AND APPRENTICESHIPS - To help students find the avenue best suited to their interests and abilities, CCAP facilitates career exploration activities, designed to expose students to the many possible careers available to them, via job shadows, boot camps, and field trips. Our Career Awareness program focuses on in-classroom demonstrations and presentations, career days, employer workplace tours, and college campus tours as well as a comprehensive summer job training and internship program. CCAP also serves as an official US Department of Labor apprenticeship intermediary, matching students with employers for full-year, paid apprenticeships.
$901,570 spent19% of program spendingADULT PROGRAMMING - In New York City, CCAP ran multiple five-week Career Pathways programs to support adults interested in transitioning to the culinary industry. The training included food safety certification. CCAP then worked with employers to place graduates into entry-level, full-time positions. This program was funded by the State of New York and ended in March 2025.
$199,185 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,787,187.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $3.4M (+21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 14% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $353k → $756k.
28 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
77% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 14% · 2019 17% · 2020 17% · 2021 36% · 2022 22% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
36% of CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
72% of CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.7M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM is better cushioned than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 16 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM?
- CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM (New York) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,057,133 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($980,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $6,057,133 in grants to CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $980,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 84 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing