Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,501,508 to it, the largest being THE GUY FIERI FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $813k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $488k
What Hawaii Restaurant Association does
Mission
The Hawaii Restaurant Association is the organization unifying, representing and supporting the hawaii restaurant and food service industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Hawaii Restaurant Association also holds an annual hall of fame induction dinner to promote leaders within the industry.
The Hawaii Restaurant Association holds an annual golf tournament to encourage its members to socialize and share knowledge within the industry.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $461k (−66%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Matsuoka Sheryl
President / CEO
Board chair
Palmer Mike
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $18k → $1.2M.
From the IRS filings of HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 51% · 2022 46% · 2023 97% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states in all.
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.
Organizations like HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
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 Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: 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 HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION?
- HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,501,508 to it, the largest being THE GUY FIERI FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,501,508 in grants to HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION?
- THE GUY FIERI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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