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Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter
Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($62). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $62
- Net assets
- $232k
What Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter does
Mission
The purposes of Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter are:* To further the knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of food, wine, and the arts of the table in the tradition of Auguste Escoffier.* To promote the education and advancement of, and to offer advice and assistance to, women in careers related to food, wine, fine beverage, and hospitality.* To raise and disburse funds for food, wine, fine beverage, and hospitality, educational scholarship funds and other worthy, charitable, beneficial or educational projects.* To provide business grants aimed at improving and advancing current women-owned businesses related to food, wine, fine beverage, and hospitality.* To promote high standards in the supply, preparation, and service of food and beverage.* To disseminate such information that advances the purpose and interests of the Chapter.* To raise and disburse funds for worthy charitable and educational projects.* To maintain affiliation with Les Dames dEscoffier International.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Through collaboration, community service, and education-focused initiatives, we worked to strengthen and elevate the voices of women in the culinary, beverage, and hospitality industries. Scholarships and grants were awarded for food and beverage classes, wine education, business courses and all things educational.
$64,127 spentof which $56,960 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,127.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $205k to $232k (+13%).
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.
73% of Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13 → $18.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter’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
100% of Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62 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
Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Texas
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter?
- Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($62). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $62 in grants to Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $62 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Les Dames dEscoffier - Austin Chapter find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2019–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing