Oregon · Nonprofit
GERMAINES CULINARY INC
GERMAINES CULINARY INC (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,930 to it, the largest being WAYNE D KUNI AND JOAN E KUNI FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $149k
What Germaines Culinary Inc does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of Germaine's Culinary Inc. is culinary training for people experiencing intellectual and developmental disabilities. The hands-on training that Germaine's Culinary Inc. provides prepares participants for community-based work in the food industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Nourish & Flourish Spring Internship was a hands-on culinary training program for people experiencing intellectual and developmental disabilities. Eleven individuals ages 18-21 trained for 12 weeks alongside a professional chef in the commercial kitchen of Portland's First Baptist Church. Participants gained experience in basic cooking skills, kitchen safety and sanitation. They gained confidence and explored work in the food industry.
$12,385 spent16% of program spendingOn September 2, 2025, Germaine's Culinary Inc. launched Nourish & Flourish Kitchen Cohort One in Portland, Oregon. Nourish & Flourish Kitchen is a 16-week, curriculum-based culinary training program for people experiencing IDD. Six students in Cohort One prepared for work in the food industry alongside two professional chefs. Nourish & Flourish Kitchen is in session four days per week, six hours per day. Students learned safety and sanitation, cooking skills and other skills necessary to work in a commercial kitchen In addition to hands-on kitchen work, once a week students traveled into the community to visit prospective employers and learn about food systems. Students prepared resumes and participated in mock job interviews. While gaining marketable culinary skills, students prepared 100 meals per week for the free drop-in lunch hosted by First Baptist Church of Portland. Following graduation on December 19, 2025, students worked with employment specialists to apply for jobs in the food industry.
$66,869 spent84% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,254.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $109k to $152k (+40%).
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.
84% of GERMAINES CULINARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Cynthia Dulcich
Chair, Board of Directors
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 GERMAINES CULINARY INC’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
GERMAINES CULINARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 GERMAINES CULINARY INC.
“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
GERMAINES CULINARY INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GERMAINES CULINARY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,448 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GERMAINES CULINARY INC
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In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GERMAINES CULINARY INC: 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 GERMAINES CULINARY INC?
- GERMAINES CULINARY INC (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,930 to it, the largest being WAYNE D KUNI AND JOAN E KUNI FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GERMAINES CULINARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $117,930 in grants to GERMAINES CULINARY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of GERMAINES CULINARY INC?
- WAYNE D KUNI AND JOAN E KUNI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GERMAINES CULINARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 7 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