We are delighted to announce our first round of 2026 Principal Grant awardees and four Partnership Circle Grant awardees.
Mult-year Funding Partnership Circle Grant Awardees
$25,000 per year for each program
- Cathedral Kitchen, Camden, NJ
- Kitchens for Good, San Diego, CA
- Life’s Kitchen, Boise, ID
- YWCA Evanston/North Shore, Evanston, IL
$10,000 Principal Grant Awardees
- 2Unique Community Salvation Foundation, Memphis, TN
- Café Hope, Gretna, LA
- Café Momentum, Dallas, TX
- EntreNous Community Empowerment, Compton, CA
- Gap Ministries, Tucson, AZ
- Good Life Community Development, Lincoln, NE
- Project Healthy Kids, Huntington, WV
- Navigate Foundation, Tucker, GA
- New Beginning Reentry Services, Roxbury, MA
- Plant to Plate Internship Program, Richmond, CA
We are honored to partner with these community-based culinary training programs, and excited to see how far their graduates will go.
Thank you to our grants review committee
The Jacques Pépin Foundation is deeply grateful to our Grants Review Committee volunteers. The time they spent reading and providing feedback on the 137 proposals we received is vital to the success of the JPF’s mission to share culinary education. Here is what one of our wonderful volunteers had to say:
The applicants are doing phenomenal work, and their dedication is inspiring. Every single group deserves recognition for the heart and soul they pour into the community. Thank you so much for allowing me to take part, it was an absolute honor to serve on the committee and support the vital mission of the JP Foundation.
Tracey, Grants Review Committee member, May 2026
Thank you to all our volunteers and supporters, and congratulations to our Grantees!