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Fine Chocolate Industry Association

Fine Chocolate Industry Association (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $52,710 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ($52,710). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$61k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$53k
Net assets
$7k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Fine Chocolate Industry Association does

Mission

Development and innovation of the fine chocolate industry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Fine Chocolate Industry Association (FCIA) is a professional non-profit organization representing the fine chocolate industry. The mission is to promote quality, innovations, ethical sourcing, and best practices in the fine chocolate industry from tree to bar and bonbon. FCIA achieves this by:Building a community of members along the entire cacao value chainCelebrating and promoting our members workSupporting ethical sourcing of cacao and other ingredientsBecoming the voice of fine chocolate to the media regarding growing, production and consumption of chocolate.Sharing information for chocolate professionals on best practices, ingredients, processing, equipment and technology.Support the defining of industry standards for fine cacao, chocolate production and use, sensory analysis and quality ingredients.Contribute to improving the economic prospects of smallholder cacao farmersBuilding partnerships to strengthen the value chain and preserve fine cacao varieties.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

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 ($160k) Expenses 100 ($173k) Net assets 100 ($75k)2018 Revenue 142 ($226k) Expenses 117 ($202k) Net assets 132 ($99k)2019 Revenue 179 ($286k) Expenses 183 ($317k) Net assets 91 ($68k)2020 Revenue 180 ($287k) Expenses 145 ($252k) Net assets 139 ($103k)2021 Revenue 104 ($166k) Expenses 132 ($228k) Net assets 56 ($42k)2022 Revenue 168 ($269k) Expenses 152 ($263k) Net assets 64 ($48k)2023 Revenue 143 ($227k) Expenses 158 ($273k) Net assets 3 ($2k)2024 Revenue 89 ($141k) Expenses 72 ($125k) Net assets 25 ($19k)2025 Revenue 38 ($61k) Expenses 42 ($73k) Net assets 10 ($7k)
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Revenue (38)Expenses (42)Net assets (10)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 $88k to $19k (−79%).

$75k
$99k
$68k
$103k
$138k
$104k
$88k
$19k
$8k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

3% of Fine Chocolate Industry Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,274 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’17
$24k
’18
−$30k
’19
$35k
’20
−$62k
’21
$6k
’22
−$45k
’23
$16k
’24
−$12k
’25
3.6
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.

201820192020202220232025
Listed13141313139
Joined·+8+1·+0·
No longer listed·72·0·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Fine Chocolate Industry Association’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.

Where its funders are

Fine Chocolate Industry Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.

MD

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Fine Chocolate Industry Association's revenue fell 62% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−19% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,647 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fine Chocolate Industry Association: 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 Fine Chocolate Industry Association?
Fine Chocolate Industry Association (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $52,710 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ($52,710). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Fine Chocolate Industry Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $52,710 in grants to Fine Chocolate Industry Association.
Who is the largest funder of Fine Chocolate Industry Association?
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC is the largest funder on record, with $52,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Fine Chocolate Industry Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 1 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