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Culinary Care

Culinary Care (Illinois) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,029,529 to it, the largest being BOBBIE AND STANTON COOK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$644k
Funders on record
35
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$233k
17/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Culinary Care does

Mission

The organization provides free restaurant prepared meals to cancer patients and their families.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provides free meals to cancer patients and their families.

    $454,505 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $454,505.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($328k) Expenses 100 ($261k) Net assets 100 ($164k)2018 Revenue 82 ($271k) Expenses 96 ($250k) Net assets 112 ($185k)2019 Revenue 95 ($311k) Expenses 106 ($278k) Net assets 131 ($215k)2020 Revenue 120 ($395k) Expenses 122 ($317k) Net assets 182 ($298k)2021 Revenue 109 ($359k) Expenses 122 ($319k) Net assets 206 ($338k)2022 Revenue 135 ($442k) Expenses 187 ($489k) Net assets 177 ($291k)2023 Revenue 198 ($651k) Expenses 258 ($673k) Net assets 164 ($270k)2024 Revenue 196 ($644k) Expenses 261 ($680k) Net assets 142 ($233k)
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Revenue (196)Expenses (261)Net assets (142)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 2021 to 2022, from $442k to $841k (+90%).

$167k
$187k
$233k
$416k
$442k
$841k
$838k
$830k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of Culinary Care’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
’17
$20k
’18
$33k
’19
$78k
’20
$40k
’21
−$47k
’22
−$22k
’23
−$37k
’24
7.2
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.

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Listed45655555
Joined·+1+3+1+0+2+0+0
No longer listed·0220200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $10k → $175k.

7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Culinary Care’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

Culinary Care has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

38% 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 Culinary Care.

34%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 73% · 2019 31% · 2020 33% · 2021 48% · 2022 34% · 2023 29% — 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

33% of Culinary Care's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

98% of Culinary Care's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

WA
IL
MI
PA
CO
MO
DE
NC

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $340k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Culinary Care is better cushioned than half of the 2,975 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,975 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Culinary Care

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 12%Fundraising 21%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds Culinary Care?
Culinary Care (Illinois) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,029,529 to it, the largest being BOBBIE AND STANTON COOK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Culinary Care have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,029,529 in grants to Culinary Care, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Culinary Care?
BOBBIE AND STANTON COOK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Culinary Care find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing