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The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation

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· 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.

$4.8M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$217k

Largest

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.

Employment$8.9MEducation$3.4MCommunity Improvement$3.0MFood & Nutrition$1.6MCrime & Legal$1.4MHuman Services$744kArts & Culture$506kHealth$453kOther$0

02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 71 grants below total $3,289,598, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,814,872 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,525,274 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
$10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
$50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M

$26,304

Median grant

States reached

$42M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$19M · 93 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$19M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+32%

Still filing today

88%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEmploymentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

TR
TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $711k · revenue +33%
SF
Safer Foundation
4× · 2021–2024 · $691k · revenue +21%
CR
COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $613k · revenue +112%

Funded once

FT
FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETYgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +126%
FR
FLORIDA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOC INC
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +11%
DI
Dalhart Independent School District
one grant, 2020 · $90k

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.

Culinary Hospitality Opportunities Program

Employment

Nebraska Hospitality Association

To promote the restaurant industry

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Nevada Hospitality Foundation

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…

Education

Texas Restaurant Association - Dallas Chapter

Promote the restaurant industry

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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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New Jersey Restaurant Association

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.

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Wisconsin Restaurant Association Inc

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…

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Colorado Restaurant Association

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.

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Washington Restaurant Association

We deliver wins for the hospitality industry.

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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.

Food & Nutrition

North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association

Ncrla is the uniting force of the north carolina hospitality industry. we impact legislation and policies, cultivate relationships, and provide training and other valuable resources to help members run their businesses.

Community Improvement

Food Jobs Work Foundation

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ri Hospitality Education Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

146 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

143/146

Grantees still filing

108/146

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$9,606,479Education$5,959,032Employment$1,954,081Crime & Legal$1,082,806Arts & Culture$907,238Human Services$698,848Community Improvement$512,709

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

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.

National Restaurant AssociationDC36.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 3 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

36report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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