New York · Nonprofit
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA (New York) receives grants from 156 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,051,141 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($853,301). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $224M
- Funders on record
- 156
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $411M
What Culinary Institute of America does
Mission
The Culinary Institute of America is a private, not-for-profit college dedicated to bettering the nation and the world, by means of outstanding education, practice, and scholarship on all aspects of food and the enterprises related to it. Through transformative learning experience, the cia prepares food leaders, innovators and experts for personal and professional success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Culinary Institute of America (cia) is widely recognized as the world's premier culinary college dedicated to driving leadership development for the food service and hospitality industry. The cia was founded in 1946 and has enjoyed a distinctive and successful history characterized by rapid expansion in its over 75 years of service. Today more than 3200 students representing every state and more than 40 countries are enrolled in degree programs. The cia offers associate degrees in culinary arts and baking and pastry arts; and bachelor degree majors in food business management, hospitality management, culinary science, applied food studies, and a bachelor's of professional studies offered through the degree completion program in either culinary arts or baking and pastry arts.the curricula for both the associate and bachelor's degree include a required internship that provides real-world experience at top restaurants, hotels, resorts and other food service companies. Students may also opt to participate in an overseas travel experience in japan, singapore and spain. Students may also take part in an immersive learning experience with a semester long deep dive into specific…
$176,440,520 spentof which $45,599,006 as grants$204,554,030 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,440,520.
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 2023 to 2024, from $520M to $554M (+7%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 5% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Mark Sarazin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $956k → $1.5M.
30 of 156 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 INSTITUTE OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 156 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 INSTITUTE OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
45% 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 INSTITUTE OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 21% · 2019 17% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 16% · 2023 17% — 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
35% of CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
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
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.6M on record — $17.6M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Education$15.5M
- Department of Defense$2.2M
- Department of State$16k
- CT$2k
- DE$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Cia San Antonio Beverages LLC · disregarded
- Cia San Antonio Management LLC · disregarded
- Cia San Antonio Operations LLC · disregarded
- Cia Investment Holdings LLC · disregarded
- The Culinary Institute of America · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: 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 CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA?
- CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA (New York) receives grants from 156 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,051,141 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($853,301). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 156 organizations giving $11,051,141 in grants to CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $853,301 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 156 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