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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 FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
29
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$7.4MPublic Benefit$2.1MFood & Nutrition$1.4MCrime & Legal$1.3MEducation$1.1MEmployment$777kCivil Rights$653kRecreation & Sports$461kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $2,641,440, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,750,219 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $108,779 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $741k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $850k
$25,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$201M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Iowa Latino Hospitality Council: $23k → 5%Miriam's Kitchen: $10k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $10k → 14%Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 80 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
43

Total granted

$14M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+17%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $748k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPublic BenefitArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RL
    Restaurant Law Center
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +45% · 49% of their budget
  • TN
    The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
    5× · 2017–2022 · $429k · revenue +51%
  • CR
    Connecticut Restaurant Association Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $353k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • NT
    No to I82
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • TA
    THE AHLA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -35%
  • NR
    National Restaurant Association
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -60%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas Restaurant Association

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…

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2
Oklahoma Restaurant Association

To promote protect and educate members in the restaurant business.

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3
American Culinary Federation Inc

Promoting excellence, education, professionalism and collegiality in the culinary profession

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4
The National Association of College and University Food Services

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.

Education
5
Delaware Restaurant Association

The delaware restaurant association is a state trade association dedicated to the promotion, protection, and improvement of the delaware food service industry.

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6
California Restaurant Association

The definitive voice for legislative advocacy for the restaurant industry in california.

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7
Colorado Hotel & Lodging Association

Member trade association

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8
California Hotel & Lodging 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…

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9
Interna'l Assoc of Hospitality Accountan Dba Hospitality Financial & Technology

To promote, enhance and develop the profession of accounting and technology in the hospitality industry.

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10
Minnesota Grocers Association

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…

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11
Alaska Cabarethotel Restaurant & Retailers Association

Dedicated to advancing, serving, and protecting alaska's hospitality and foodservice industry.

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12
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Hospitality & Restauran Association; 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.
04the grantee network

102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/102
Grantees still filing
69/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COUNCIL OF STATE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATIONS INC: $1,156,975 · OtherCOUNCIL OF STATE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATIONS INCConnecticut Restaurant Association Inc: $353,100 · OtherARIZONA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $325,000 · Other+99 more: $7,767,606 · Other+99 moreRestaurant Law Center: $1,579,000 · Community ImprovementRestaurant Law CenterMulticultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance: $1,021,908 · Community ImprovementMulticultural Foodserv…NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION: $258,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH CAROLINA RESTAUR…GEORGIA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC: $181,000 · Community ImprovementGEORGIA RESTAURANT ASS…+4 more: $200,000 · Community Improvement+4 moreMICHIGAN HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION: $500,000 · EducationMICHIGAN …MASSACHUSETTS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $220,000 · EducationMASSACHUS…THE AHLA FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationTHE AHLA …RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $118,000 · EducationRESTAURAN…UNIVERSAL ORLANDO FOUNDATION INC: $76,666 · EducationUNIVERSAL…CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $75,000 · EducationCULINARY …American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research: $50,000 · EducationOHIO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $47,000 · Education+6 more: $118,500 · Education+6 moreSave Local Restaurants: $1,118,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FORWARD: $125,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $429,000 · Food & NutritionWOMEN'S FOODSERVICE FORUM: $205,000 · Food & NutritionDELAWARE RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: $63,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican Heart Association Inc: $130,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $48,000 · HealthEMPLOYMENT POLICIES INSTITUTE FOUNDATION dba EMPLOYMENT POLICIES INSTITUTE: $140,000 · Social Science
Other$9,602,681Community Improvement$3,239,908Education$1,405,166Public Benefit$1,253,000Food & Nutrition$697,000Health$228,000Social Science$140,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRestaurant Law Center: $1,579,000 over 7y, 49% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATIONS INC: $1,156,975 over 7y, 29% of budgetSave Local Restaurants: $1,118,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMulticultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance: $1,021,908 over 8y, 19% of budgetMICHIGAN HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $429,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetConnecticut Restaurant Association Inc: $353,100 over 6y, 13% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FRANCHISE ASSOCIATION: $290,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWISCONSIN RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC: $267,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION: $258,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetOREGON RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION: $251,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $249,181 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $241,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetRI HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION: $234,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $220,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetNEW JERSEY RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $207,500 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetWOMEN'S FOODSERVICE FORUM: $205,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AHLA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC: $190,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION: $186,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetGEORGIA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC: $181,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetLOCAL CHAPTERS OF THE L R A INC: $172,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetTEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION - DALLAS CHAPTER: $170,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION: $166,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $165,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetHAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $159,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetOHIO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $156,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetUS TRAVEL ASSOCIATION: $153,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEMPLOYMENT POLICIES INSTITUTE FOUNDATION dba EMPLOYMENT POLICIES INSTITUTE: $140,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetRestaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington Inc: $139,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetVIRGINIA RESTAURANT LODGING TRAVEL ASSOCIATION: $135,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION INC: $125,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetCENTER FORWARD: $125,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRESTAURANT ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $118,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetCannery Row Association Inc Cannery Row Merchants Association: $105,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetNational Restaurant Association: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $97,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetALASKA CHARR EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $92,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $78,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetMICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION: $78,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSAL ORLANDO FOUNDATION INC: $76,666 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $75,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOB CREATORS NETWORK INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMICHIGAN OPPORTUNITY: $75,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetALABAMA RESTAURANT & HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetOREGON HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION: $74,000 over 2y, 14% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The National Restaura…American Hotel & Lodg…Edison Electric Insti…Pharmaceutical Resear…American Petroleum In…Association for Acces…Motion Picture Associ…International Franchi…American Gas Associat…Ncta - the Internet &…The Concord FundBiotechnology Innovat…
The National Restaurant Association Educational FoundationDC36.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 3 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Restaurant Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Restaurant Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home