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MENT LTD

MENT LTD (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,459,615 to it, the largest being BEZOS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,116,649). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
$283k
13/33 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Ment Ltd does

Mission

Aims to educate, train and inspire excellence in young culinary professionals and champions the diversity and creativity of the traditions and quality of cuisine in america.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Team usa training - funding provided to effectively train team usa as they prepare to represent our country at the most recognized and competitive culinary event called the bocuse d. Funding is used for all aspects of training from equipment and supplies to ingredients and travel.

    $2,083,061 spent
    94% of program spending
  2. Grant program - funds used to provide young culinary professionals with fully paid internships ("stages") at restaurants around the world to further their education and ongoing training.

    $128,041 spentof which $89,016 as grants
    6% of program spending
  3. Giving fund grants - issued to restaurants and other public charities for disaster relief and assistance with employee relief efforts related to covid, natural disasters or devastation.

    $10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,221,102.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($560k) Expenses 100 ($894k) Net assets 100 ($600k)2022 Revenue 182 ($1.0M) Expenses 102 ($909k) Net assets 116 ($698k)2023 Revenue 246 ($1.4M) Expenses 211 ($1.9M) Net assets 31 ($189k)2024 Revenue 388 ($2.2M) Expenses 174 ($1.6M) Net assets 138 ($828k)2025 Revenue 427 ($2.4M) Expenses 327 ($2.9M) Net assets 47 ($283k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (427)Expenses (327)Net assets (47)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $665k (−43%).

$1.2M
$1.1M
$678k
$1.2M
$665k
20212022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

119% of MENT LTD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

’21
$107k
’22
−$505k
’23
$615k
’24
−$536k
’25
0.9
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.

Board chair

Daniel Boulud

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed9109912
Joined·+5+0+0+4
No longer listed·4101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $20k → $1.5M.

13 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 MENT LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

MENT LTD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

38% 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 MENT LTD.

32%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 42% · 2019 37% · 2020 83% · 2021 37% · 2022 42% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.

“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

0% of MENT LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

MENT LTD draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 10 states in all.

WA
NY
NV
OH
CT
CA
MO
DE
AZ
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MENT LTD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)44% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MENT LTD

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 12%Fundraising 12%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 40 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENT LTD: 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 MENT LTD?
MENT LTD (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,459,615 to it, the largest being BEZOS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,116,649). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MENT LTD have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,459,615 in grants to MENT LTD, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MENT LTD?
BEZOS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,116,649 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MENT LTD find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 33 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