Washington, D.C. · 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.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 45
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 56
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 29
- Total assets, FY2024
- $201M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations National Restaurant Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 45 | $2.6M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $2.3M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $2.9M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $1.7M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $2.3M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $2.1M | 80% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $871k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurant Law Center | $1,579,000 | 7 | 49% |
| Council of State Restaurant Associations Inc | $1,156,975 | 7 | 29% |
| Save Local Restaurants | $1,118,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Multicultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance | $1,021,908 | 8 | 19% |
| Michigan Hospitality Foundation | $500,000 | 5 | 35% |
| The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation | $429,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Connecticut Restaurant Association Inc | $353,100 | 6 | 13% |
| Arizona Restaurant Association Foundation | $325,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Committee to Protect Tips | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Franchise Association | $290,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 134 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
National Restaurant Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About National Restaurant Association
- How much does National Restaurant Association give?
- National Restaurant Association reported 45 itemized grants totaling $2,641,440, out of $2,750,219 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does National Restaurant Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (44%), Public Benefit (12%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are National Restaurant Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Restaurant Law Center ($1.6M), Council of State Restaurant Associations Inc ($1.2M), Save Local Restaurants ($1.1M).
- Does National Restaurant Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Restaurant Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, American Hotel & Lodging Association, Edison Electric Institute Inc.
- Where is National Restaurant Association based?
- National Restaurant Association is based in DC.
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