- Revenue 2024
- $7,953,012
- Expenses 2024
- $7,605,883
Program services were 83.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 2799 HEALTH CENTER DR
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
To transform lives through culinary arts.
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Project Kitchen: This program contains the Organizations revenue-generating food enterprises, which provide paid on-the-job training hours to the apprentices. Previously, this program included the Organizations catering enterprise. This program currently includes the concession contract at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park concert venue in San Diego. This contract is managed and operated by a culinary graduate and provides paid on-the-job training to the hospitality apprentices.
Expenses $2,710,160 · Revenue $3,034,468
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Project Launch: Our tuition-free, CA state certified, 20-month Apprenticeship Programs help individuals facing barriers to employment gain the skills needed to create sustainable careers. The Organization offers support services to the apprentices for the duration of their journey. We currently have three Apprenticeship tracks: Culinary, Hospitality and Baking.
Expenses $2,562,290
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The SHOP: This is a retail store opened in January 2022 that resells donated gently-used (and new or never-used) kitchenware, cookware, dinnerware, select home dcor, and specialty items made by social enterprises, mission-aligned partners, or current/former apprentices..
Expenses $661,474
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WORKS: This program launched in April 2022 and is a staffing social enterprise that builds a bridge between individuals facing barriers to employment and San Diegos robust hospitality industry by placing the Organizations apprentices into jobs. It provides human resources and support services to our apprentices and mitigates the challenges of onboarding for our employer partners.
Expenses $389,511
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Project Nourish: The Organization rescues surplus and cosmetically imperfect food from wholesalers and farmers and transforms these ingredients into nutritious meals. These healthy meals are distributed to high-need communities including at risk youth, low-income seniors, and various unsheltered and low-income individuals through partnerships with local nonprofit agencies.
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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JENNIFER GILMORE
CEO
- Total calculated
- $189,532
- From this org
- $184,081
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $5,451
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $184,081
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $5,396
- Nontaxable benefits
- $55
- Filer's total
- $189,532
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NATALIA MOUSSA
CFO
- Total calculated
- $161,025
- From this org
- $152,793
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,232
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $152,793
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $3,447
- Nontaxable benefits
- $4,785
- Filer's total
- $161,025
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JUANITA ATITISOGBUIE
DIRECTOR OF HR
- Total calculated
- $104,808
- From this org
- $102,069
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $2,739
- Hours/week
- 40
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KAREN HENKEN
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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JACK PERKINS
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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BOB WATSON
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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LEIANA SEDILLO
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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MIKE IRWIN
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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SALLY TOISTER
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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DON WILLIAMSON
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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AMBER HERRMANN
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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VICTORIA PARDO UZITAS
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $7,953,012
- Expenses
- $7,605,883
- Contributions
- $4,857,463
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $5,166,033
- Expenses
- $4,959,456
- Contributions
- $4,259,235
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $4,381,032
- Expenses
- $4,658,276
- Contributions
- $3,603,493
- Grants paid
- $0
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,022,292
- Expenses
- $3,602,216
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,447,069
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,877,346
- Expenses
- $2,957,764
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,990,533
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,672,075
- Expenses
- $3,982,093
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,304,742
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,450,865
- Expenses
- $3,872,920
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,575,132
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,558,033
- Expenses
- $3,112,148
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,204,537
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,459,439
- Expenses
- $2,422,528
- Assets (EOY)
- $548,866
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,509,878
- Expenses
- $1,616,879
- Assets (EOY)
- $302,613
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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2023 BREAKING BARRIERS
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$150,197
2022 PROJECT LAUNCH + WORKS
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2024 BREAKING BARRIERS
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2022 BREAKING BARRIERS
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2024 UNRESTRICTED
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$80,000
2023 SOCIAL SERVICES
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$60,000
2023 Hospitality Apprenticeships And Employment Service
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$50,000
2022 GENERAL OPERATIONS
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.