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CHOW CORP

CHOW CORP (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,388 to it, the largest being ROTARY CLUB OF ANNAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($23,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$317k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$48k
Net assets
$0
2/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Chow Corp does

Mission

To provide services for military veterans through cooking therapy cookware donations culinary education and business advice for anyone from home chefs to aspiring food truck or restaurant owners.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Lets Chow purchases food trucks and provides to veteran owned businesses at a minimum rental fee. In return the veteran receives business mentorship and operational coverage of the truck to include maintenance and regulatory fees.

    $0 spent$28,886 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  2. Lets Chow food truck program expenses are the primary training and food donation platform for the program. Lets Chow donated over 10,000 meals and provided 20,000 training hours for veterans with these funds which ensured the food trucks were maintained and operating. This included food and programmatic costs.

    $232,822 spent
    85% of program spending
  3. Lets Chow provided week long training at a professional sports event in Washington DC area to all of the program veterans. Expenses included training lodging transportation and other associated costs with operations.

    $39,667 spent
    15% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $272,489.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($469k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($354k)2022 Revenue 46 ($218k) Expenses 192 ($222k) Net assets 90 ($319k)2023 Revenue 54 ($252k) Expenses 231 ($268k) Net assets 91 ($320k)2024 Revenue 67 ($317k) Expenses 236 ($272k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2021202220232024
Revenue (67)Expenses (236)Net assets (0)Peer revenue range

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 $320k to $0 (−100%).

$354k
$319k
$320k
$0
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 100% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of CHOW CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$354k
’21
−$4k
’22
−$16k
’23
$44k
’24
1.4
months of
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.

Chief executive

Jordan Foley

CEO

Board chair

Samuel Schraer

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed7877
Joined·+2+0+0
No longer listed·110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $5k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 CHOW CORP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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

CHOW CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

98% 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 CHOW CORP.

49%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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

62% of CHOW CORP's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

ME
PA
MD
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHOW CORP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CHOW CORP

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 Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 4 states

PA
NJ
CA
MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHOW CORP: 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 CHOW CORP?
CHOW CORP (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,388 to it, the largest being ROTARY CLUB OF ANNAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($23,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHOW CORP have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $48,388 in grants to CHOW CORP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHOW CORP?
ROTARY CLUB OF ANNAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHOW CORP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 8 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