California · Nonprofit
California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation
California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $99,365 to it, the largest being THE HANDLERY FOUNDATION ($99,365). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $553k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $99k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation does
Mission
This corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation, the purpose of which is to engage in any lawful act of activity for which a corporation may be organized under such law. Within the parameters of the general purpose stated abobe, the specific purposes of this corporation include:a. To provide funding to and for, and otherwise assist, california institutions & similar entities which are engaged, or which seek to engage, in activities which will further the opportunities to aquire education & learning pertaining to the field of hotel & motel management and the lodging, hospitality, and food services industries.b. To provide funding & otherwise to assist in connection with activities which will further research & knowloedge in the field of lodging, hospitality and food service industries.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation (CHLAHF) helps people build careers that improve their lives and strengthen the hotel and lodging industry. The Foundation provides tools, resources, and scholarships in support of excellence among industry employees and hospitality students, to raise the profile of the California hospitality. In 2023 67 scholarships were provided totalling $176,117.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.2M to $3.6M (−13%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
96% of California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lynn Mohrfeld
President & CEO
Board chair
Michael Pace
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $19k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $26k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Asian American Hotel Owners Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation?
- California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $99,365 to it, the largest being THE HANDLERY FOUNDATION ($99,365). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $99,365 in grants to California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation?
- THE HANDLERY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $99,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing