California · Nonprofit
Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute
Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,356 to it, the largest being WINROCK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ($122,280). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $122k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute does
Mission
Charitable, educational and scientific: CQI works internationally to improve coffee quality and the lives of the people who produce it.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To educate, train, and certify coffee industry personnel; coordinate research; develop, test, and certify products and services for the coffee industry.
$485,881 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $485,881.
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 2020 to 2021, from $543k to $1.3M (+141%).
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: 2017 14% · 2018 7% · 2019 15% · 2020 29% · 2021 23% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Michael Sheridan
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $20.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute’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
Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
20% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute: 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 Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute?
- Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,356 to it, the largest being WINROCK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ($122,280). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $122,356 in grants to Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute?
- WINROCK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT is the largest funder on record, with $122,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Coffee Quality Institute formerly Specialty Coffee Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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