Ohio · Nonprofit
Center for Food Innovation Inc
Center for Food Innovation Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $40
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $40
What Center for Food Innovation Inc does
Mission
charitable educational scientific
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
charitable: Organized and conducted via several cash prizes a coaching and pitch competition entitled "Your Amazing Food Idea" for eligible individuals and local food businesses start-ups to support selected small food-related enterprises that promote healthy eating culinary education and employment of underserved residents.
$12,000 spentof which $12,000 as grants86% of program spendingeducational: Organized and conducted via professional coaching sessions a coaching and pitch competition entitled "Your Amazing Food Idea" for eligible individuals and local food businesses start-ups to support selected small food-related enterprises that promote healthy eating culinary education and employment of underserved residents.
$1,980 spentof which $1,980 as grants14% of program spendingscientific: no scientific activities in 2023
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,980.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $15k to $40 (−100%).
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.
100% of Center for Food Innovation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Bara Watts
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Adele Flynn
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Center for Food Innovation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Center for Food Innovation Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Center for Food Innovation Inc's revenue fell 100% between 2022 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,125 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like Center for Food Innovation Inc
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center for Food Innovation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Center for Food Innovation Inc?
- Center for Food Innovation Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Food Innovation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to Center for Food Innovation Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Food Innovation Inc?
- THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Food Innovation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 1 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