New Jersey · Nonprofit
CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC
CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,415 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $361k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $0
What Chefs for Impact Inc does
Mission
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit educating the public on the environmental and personal impacts of sustainable eating. Collaborating with chefs and farmers, our team empowers people and connects communities to make sustainable food decisions through our events, community programming, and media.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
General programs - we operate weekly classes centered around growing food teaching students between the ages of 5 - 15.
$171,343 spent53% of program spendingChefs for kids - chefs for kids is our youth program aimed at educating nyc students on food sustainability, nutrition, agriculture, and culinary skills. Through weekly after-school classes, we bring our chef educators to community centers and schools and teach 1-1.5 hour classes focused on teaching students all about food from seed to plate. In addition to in-classroom lessons, we instruct our students in our community gardens as well. In 2022 we began 2 community gardens to complement our standard youth classes. Our students learn about seasonality, heirloom varieties of seeds, what composting is and how to do it, the importance of pollinators, how food grows, how to harvest it, and of course how to cook it, amongst a variety of other food topics.
$95,608 spent$78,411 earned by the program30% of program spendingFood and wine events - our food and wine events are designed to educate the public on what eating sustainably means. We partner with chefs and farmers in the ny area to design and execute dining experiences that introduce our guests to sustainable food producers and practices. Our food and wine events are ticketed and open to the public.
$56,730 spent18% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $323,681.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $18k to $0 (−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.
78% of CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 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
2021 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $11k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 CHEFS FOR IMPACT 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 54% · 2022 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
68% of CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHEFS FOR IMPACT 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHEFS FOR IMPACT 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 CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC?
- CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,415 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $62,415 in grants to CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEFS FOR IMPACT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 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