Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO
THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,913,200 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,025,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What The Food Marketing Educational Foundatio does
Mission
To promote and support food marketing education; to provide services to food marketing students, including scholarship aid, recruiting, internships, cooperative education, counseling, and placement; (see continuation on schedule o)to support the development of food marketing graduates to serve the food and non-food industries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The board of governors is charged with fundraising. That is primarily achieved with assistance from our board and partner companies. Companies are asked to contribute to The Food Marketing Educational Foundation program's future food industry leaders program. These funds are given to the foundation to support the food marketing program and its students in the way of scholarships, experiential learning, events, operating budget, summits, conferences, program enrollment, co-op, internships, mentoring, etc. As a result of the fundraising efforts, students have been able to remain in school while obtaining the educational fundamentals needed to prepare them for positions and careers after college. Our fundraising campaigns have helped generate an efficient and effective way (continued in schedule o) to support a student talent portal for our industry, as well as enhance most companies' current workforce. During fy25, 2 student were awarded a total of $10,000 in scholarships.
$423,663 spentof which $10,000 as grants$945,621 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $423,663.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $5.2M (+23%).
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.
3% of THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
George Knobloch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $220k → $195k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL 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
THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 77% · 2021 91% · 2022 81% · 2023 77% — 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 THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
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
81% of THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO'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. Of the $363k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO?
- THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,913,200 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,025,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,913,200 in grants to THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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