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RESEARCH CHEFS ASSOCIATION

EIN 43-1763929 LEXINGTON, KY

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Revenue 2024
$927,896
Expenses 2024
$713,960

Program services were 78.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
201 E MAIN ST STE 810

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).

Other organizations at this address

29 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 810). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CULTIVATE COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN CHEFS AND FOOD SCIENCE PROFESSIONALS WHO DEVELOP FOOD, TO INCREASE INNOVATION, QUALITY AND SPEED TO MARKET.

  • ANNUAL CONFERENCE - THE RCA CONFERENCE IS HELD ANNUALLY. THE CONFERENCE IS AN EDUCATION FORUM WITH SPEAKERS, EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS FEATURING THE FOREMOST LEADERS IN CULINARY ARTS AND FOOD SCIENCE.

    Expenses $477,809 · Revenue $508,880

  • REGIONAL EVENTS - THROUGH REGIONAL HUBS, RCA PROVIDES CONTINUING EDUCATION WORKSHOPS CATERING TO THE CULINARY PROFESSION AND FOOD TECHNOLOGISTS AND FEATURING EXPERT CHEFS AND FOOD SCIENCE PROFESSIONALS.

    Expenses $44,112 · Revenue $86,645

  • MEMBERSHIP SERVICES & OTHER PROGRAMS - MEMBERSHIP PROVIDES ACESS TO A NETWORK OF PROFESSIONALS, AS WELL AS UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPAND AND DEVELOP CAREERS FOR GREATER SUCCESS. RCA ALSO OFFERS A TWO-LEVEL CERTIFICATION PROGRAM FOR ADVANCING AND CERTIFYING THE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE OF CULINARY PROFESSIONALS. CERTIFIED RESEARCH CHEFS (CRC) AND CERTIFIED CULINARY SCIENTISTS (CCS) PROVIDE THE FOOD INDUSTRY WITH TODAY'S MOST VALUABLE, SOUGHT-AFTER PRODUCT DEVELOPERS THAT EXCEL IN THE PRACTICE OF CULINOLOGY.

    Expenses $36,340 · Revenue $34,179

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Jeff Crace

    VP/PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anne Druschitz

    TREASURER/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nicole Linke

    SECRETARY/VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gregg Brickman

    DIRECTOR/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anna Cheely

    DIRECTOR/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mickey Miller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Slutzky

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kyle Stuart

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Thomas Gervasi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Adam Howell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Posner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Angel Tekriwal

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Casey Schallert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Howard Cantor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sam Kressler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles Hayes

    PRESIDENT/PAST PRES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cian Leahy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nelson Serrano-Bahri

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $927,896
    Expenses
    $713,960
    Contributions
    $284,843
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $761,403
    Expenses
    $491,496
    Contributions
    $343,418
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $354,544
    Expenses
    $181,347
    Contributions
    $0
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,421,503
    Expenses
    $1,308,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,507
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,171,129
    Expenses
    $925,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $110,877
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $744,182
    Expenses
    $1,415,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $280,355
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,605,336
    Expenses
    $1,527,400
    Assets (EOY)
    $579,459
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,509,550
    Expenses
    $1,364,277
    Assets (EOY)
    $460,126
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,281,573
    Expenses
    $1,353,686
    Assets (EOY)
    $242,561
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,521,809
    Expenses
    $1,580,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,173
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,560,128
    Expenses
    $1,640,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $305,982
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,489,455
    Expenses
    $1,659,475
    Assets (EOY)
    $392,206
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,417,426
    Assets (EOY)
    $562,226

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.