· Public charity
The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
As the philanthropic foundation of the National Restaurant Association, we enhance the industry's service to the public through education, community engagement, and promotion of career opportunities.
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 71 grants below total $3,289,598 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,814,872 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,525,274 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Antonio Food Bank Inc | $217,014 |
| American Hotel & Lodging Foundation | $159,860 |
| Texas Restaurant Foundation | $157,421 |
| Peckham Vocational Industries Inc | $152,559 |
| Goodwill Industries of Houston | $123,306 |
| Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Ed Fdn | $116,011 |
| Educational Foundation of the Louisiana Restaurant Association | $115,740 |
| Alvis Inc | $115,027 |
| Colorado Restaurant AssocColorado Restaurant Foundation | $109,877 |
| Delaware Restaurant Foundation | $109,826 |
| Restaurant Association of Maryland Ed Fdn | $109,512 |
| Michigan Hospitality Foundation | $90,511 |
| OAR of Richmond Inc | $77,076 |
| Lawrence Hall | $67,954 |
| Missouri Restaurant Association Educational Foundation | $65,737 |
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 (FY20–24, $699k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
93 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 6 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- TRTEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $711k · revenue +33%
- SFSafer Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $691k · revenue +21%
- CRCOLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $613k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- FTFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +126%
- FRFLORIDA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOC INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +11%
- DIDalhart Independent School Districtone grant, 2020 · $90k
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 promote the restaurant industry
Promote the restaurant industry
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…
The organization has been a resource for the foodservice and hospitality industries since 1947. support, advocacy and education are a part of our recipe for success.
The ProStart Program is a two year high school culinary training course, taken as an elective class. The program is three hundred fifty hours of instruction and four hundred hours of an industry work experience. After passing the exams for…
To provide members the services and tools to be successful, through advocacy, education and communication. as an advocate, wra provides representation for the restaurant industry to create a favorable political and regulatory environment…
The colorado restaurant association is the champion for our state's restaurant and hospitality industry. we are trusted leaders for our community, protecting, serving, and promoting success from entry level to ownership.
As the philanthropic foundation of the National Restaurant Association, we enhance the industry's service to the public through education, community engagement, and promotion of career opportunities.
The corporation is organized and operated to promote social welfare within the meaning of code section 501(c)(4), including but not limited to, advocacy and communications related to public policies that create new job opportunities for…
To enhance the restaurant industry's legal advocacy capabilities to provide protection and advancement for the industry, including fighting overregulation at the federal, state and local level, while promoting pro-business laws and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ri Hospitality Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association Foundation. 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 30 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
146 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 146 of the 172 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 TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE LRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PECKHAM VOCATIONAL INDUSTRIES INC DBA PECKHAM INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Hall ↗
- Who funds OHIO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOC Family Services LLC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC ↗
- Who funds OAR of Richmond Inc ↗
- Who funds RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Foundation ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ALVIS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE HOSPITALITY & TOURISM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WVHTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY EDUCATION FOUN ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY MAINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS RESTAURANT & HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Hospitality Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION ↗
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: National Restaurant Association · Jacques Pepin Foundation The · Farestart · The Denver Foundation · Redf · Sourceamerica · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Share Our Strength · The Pittsburgh Foundation
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 The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation 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.
- St Vincent Depaul Mission of Waterbury — 49% of income from government
- Delaware Restaurant Association — 40% of income from government
- Community Workshops Inc — 39% of income from government
- Project New Start Inc — 37% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- Teen Warehouse Inc — 28% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
- Connected Lane County — 17% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland — 6% 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.