Ohio · Nonprofit
EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE
EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,458,650 to it, the largest being EDWINS FOUNDATION ($1,489,132). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $195k
What Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute does
Mission
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute is a unique approach to giving formerly-incarcerated adults and similarly disadvantaged and at risk individuals a foundation in the hospitality industry while providing a support network necessary for a successful re-entry. Edwins' goal is to enhance the community of cleveland's vulnerable neighborhoods by providing its future leaders. Our mission is to teach a skilled trade in the culinary arts, empower willing minds through passion for the hospitality and prepare students for a successful transition into the world of business professionals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The goal of edwins' program is to create a pipeline of skilled talent into one of cleveland's growth industries: restaurant and hospitality.our program:- creates an educational program that provides 6 months of intensive training in food preparation, food service and hospitality- establishes a fully functioning kitchen and commercial restaurant that is open to the public and located within the city of cleveland- collaborates with an existing transition support organization in cleveland- provides a modest stipend for students attending and meeting the program's performance standards- provides students exposure to experienced industry specialists such as teachers, mentors, and potential employers- provides case management and assistance for prevention of any barriers for completion of the program, including assistance with housing, transportation, and clothing.
$4,919,359 spentof which $1,255,036 as grants$236,313 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,919,359.
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 2024 to 2025, from $811k to $1.6M (+98%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Brandon E Chrostowski
President/founder/CEO
Board chair
J David O'Halloran
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $169k → $1.0M.
18 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
64% 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 EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 40% · 2019 39% · 2020 26% · 2021 14% · 2022 26% · 2023 14% — 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 EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
80% of EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Edwins Second Chance Life Skills Center · exempt
- Edwins Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT 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 EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE?
- EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,458,650 to it, the largest being EDWINS FOUNDATION ($1,489,132). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $7,458,650 in grants to EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE?
- EDWINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,489,132 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 83 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