Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO
HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,964 to it, the largest being Germaine Hope Brennan Foundation ($22,487). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Hawaii Culinary Education Foundatio does
Mission
The Hawaii Culinary Education Foundation's mission is to provide hawaiis culinary students and professional access to the best knowledge and exposure to cutting-edge techniques through a variety of programs and educational opportunities with local, national and international chefs and food experts. The Hawaii Culinary Education Foundation is dedicated to the development and support of culinary training programs throughout the state of hawaii to promote our unique culinary traditions. Created in 1998, as the hale aina ohana, the Hawaii Culinary Education Foundation recognizes the contribution of the culinary industry to hawaiis economy. An advisory committee comprised of prominent members of the hawaii restaurant and hospitality industry and leaders of culinary programs meet regularly to plan activities and fund-raising events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Hawaii Culinary Education Foundation (hcef) provides financial and professional resources towards activities that enhance the scope of learning by culinary students and professionals. Hcef facilitates the sharing of knowledge by experts with students. Hcef is the only organization of its kind in the state of hawaii and the u.s. Accomplished chefs and food experts are partnered with hawaiis culinary students and professionals through hcef programs such as the following: visiting culinary experts introduce national and international food trends and ideas through demonstrations and workshops center of the plate workshops throughout the state feature top island chefs sharing their knowledge and experience master chef classes help hone student skill sets by focusing on specific techniques and philosophies professional workshops for industry professionals to improve and update their skills high school culinary mentoring programs hcef is also involved in: public educational programs celebrity chef dinners annual fundraiser golf tournament for culinary supporters raising the culinary bar in hawaii through ongoing culinary education
$73,953 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $73,953.
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 2020 to 2021, from $87k to $48k (−46%).
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.
98% of HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Tom Mullen
Chairman/tre
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $4k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO’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
HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO
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 Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO: 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 HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO?
- HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,964 to it, the largest being Germaine Hope Brennan Foundation ($22,487). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $34,964 in grants to HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO?
- Germaine Hope Brennan Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $22,487 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 5 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