· Public charity
National Restaurant Association
To serve our industry and impact its success, we: strengthen operations, mitigate risk and develop talent; advance and protect business vitality through national, state and local advocacy; and drive knowledge and collaboration.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 45 grants below total $2,641,440 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,750,219 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $108,779 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $741k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Committee to Protect Tips | $300,000 |
| Arizona Restaurant Association | $285,000 |
| Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association | $265,000 |
| Restaurant Law Center | $225,000 |
| Massachusetts Restaurant Association | $220,000 |
| Council of State Restaurant Association | $175,000 |
| Save Local Restaurants | $125,000 |
| Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association | $83,000 |
| Multicultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance | $59,000 |
| Connecticut Restaurant Association | $56,500 |
| Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Association | $50,000 |
| Merchants Payments Coalition Inc | $50,000 |
| Tennessee Hospitality & Tourism Association | $40,000 |
| US Travel Association | $35,250 |
| Louisiana Restaurant Association | $35,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $748k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RLRestaurant Law Center7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +45% · 49% of their budget
- TNThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation5× · 2017–2022 · $429k · revenue +51%
- CRConnecticut Restaurant Association Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $353k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- NTNo to I82one grant, 2022 · $250k
- TATHE AHLA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -35%
- NRNational Restaurant Associationone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -60%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be the most trusted and indispensable partner for every foodservice operator in texas-championing their success through deep relationships, world-class advocacy, and unmatched resources-while building a thriving, inclusive, and…
To promote protect and educate members in the restaurant business.
Promoting excellence, education, professionalism and collegiality in the culinary profession
To promote excellence in campus dining, provide conference and tradeshow venues, and educational programs for professional development. As well as offer surveys for business practices and benchmarking.
The delaware restaurant association is a state trade association dedicated to the promotion, protection, and improvement of the delaware food service industry.
The definitive voice for legislative advocacy for the restaurant industry in california.
Member trade association
CH&LA operate to protect the right and interest of the California lodging industry. Legislative advocacy, educational training, communication, and cost-savings programs are provided for all segments of the industry. In addition, CH&LA…
To promote, enhance and develop the profession of accounting and technology in the hospitality industry.
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
Dedicated to advancing, serving, and protecting alaska's hospitality and foodservice industry.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Hospitality & Restauran Association and the most unlike its peers is Texas Christian University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 102 of the 134 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Restaurant Law Center ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF STATE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Save Local Restaurants ↗
- Who funds Multicultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Restaurant Association Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FRANCHISE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RI HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOODSERVICE FORUM ↗
- Who funds THE AHLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL CHAPTERS OF THE L R A INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION - DALLAS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds US TRAVEL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYMENT POLICIES INSTITUTE FOUNDATION dba EMPLOYMENT POLICIES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA RESTAURANT LODGING TRAVEL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FORWARD ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation · American Hotel & Lodging Association · Edison Electric Institute Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · American Petroleum Institute · Association for Accessible Medicines · Motion Picture Association Inc · International Franchise Association · American Gas Association · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · The Concord Fund · Biotechnology Innovation Organization
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization National Restaurant Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.