Culinarians Helping Entrepreneurial Folks (CHEF) Inc
C.H.E.F. creates life-changing opportunities by providing recovery-focused restaurant training, mentorship, and leadership development for individuals who are in or seeking recovery, have insecure housing, or are involved in the justice system.
About Culinarians Helping Entrepreneurial Folks (CHEF) Inc
C.H.E.F. is a Denver-area nonprofit that operates a recovery-first culinary training program combining hands-on restaurant skills, ServSafe certification, employability coaching and trauma-informed recovery support to help participants secure and retain paid work in the hospitality industry.
The organization is a registered 501(c)(3) (IRS ruling year 2022) that has partnered with local funders and workforce programs and, in recent years, received competitive grants to expand peer-led recovery supports and apprenticeship pathways (notable awards and partnerships occurred in 2024).
Notable achievements
Colorado Health Foundation grant (2024)
Awarded funding to expand a recovery-focused and supported restaurant training project (multi-year award period supporting program enhancement and peer recovery components).
Local workforce & foundation support (2024)
Selected as a grantee by local funders and workforce programs (including Caring for Denver and Colorado workforce grant cohorts) to scale apprenticeship and re-entry job supports.
Early program outcomes
Reported early cohort results and placements in the program’s first operating years (program reporting included a multi‑dozen trainee throughput and a strong graduation rate in initial cohorts as the program scaled).
At a glance
- Total assets
- $120K
- Annual revenue
- $341K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 87-3209542
- Location
- Lakewood, CO
- Website
- chefco.org
- On Mahalo since
- November 2025
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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