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Sprouts Chef Training

Sprouts Chef Training (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,721 to it, the largest being MIRANDA LUX FOUNDATION ($98,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$416k
Net assets
$852k
7/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Sprouts Chef Training does

Mission

Equipping youth to rise from hardship through culinary training and job placement. Youth at Sprouts are paired with a chef mentor and wraparound program to develop the vocational skills needed to secure and maintain a culinary job. Graduates use these entry-level jobs to kickstart culinary careers, pay for education, or pursue new industries.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Apprenticeships/ Chef Training: vocational culinary training program for young adults 16-23 years old that teaches them the essential career skills to land a job in the culinary industry.

    $356,753 spent$45,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $356,753.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($447k) Expenses 100 ($500k) Net assets 100 ($216k)2020 Revenue 36 ($163k) Expenses 40 ($201k) Net assets 84 ($181k)2021 Revenue 24 ($106k) Expenses 24 ($122k) Net assets 77 ($166k)2022 Revenue 112 ($502k) Expenses 72 ($360k) Net assets 143 ($308k)2023 Revenue 166 ($741k) Expenses 114 ($572k) Net assets 231 ($499k)2024 Revenue 253 ($1.1M) Expenses 157 ($785k) Net assets 395 ($852k)
201820202021202220232024
Revenue (253)Expenses (157)Net assets (395)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 $512k to $894k (+75%).

$217k
$190k
$170k
$317k
$512k
$894k
201820202021202220232024
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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of Sprouts Chef Training’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$54k
’18
−$38k
’20
−$15k
’21
$142k
’22
$168k
’23
$345k
’24
4.5
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

Michael Bauer

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018202220232024
Listed6987
Joined··+2+1
No longer listed··32
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $12k → $113k.

9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Sprouts Chef Training’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

Sprouts Chef Training has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

50% 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 Sprouts Chef Training.

24%
largest funder
45%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 51% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.

“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

20% of Sprouts Chef Training's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

77% of Sprouts Chef Training's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
MA
NV
CA
DE
NC
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

Sprouts Chef Training runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Sprouts Chef Training

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

45% of spending goes to programs.

Program 45%Management 17%Fundraising 37%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sprouts Chef Training: 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 Sprouts Chef Training?
Sprouts Chef Training (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,721 to it, the largest being MIRANDA LUX FOUNDATION ($98,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sprouts Chef Training have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $415,721 in grants to Sprouts Chef Training, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sprouts Chef Training?
MIRANDA LUX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $98,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sprouts Chef Training find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 20 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