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ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $954,366 to it, the largest being Women's Business Development Center ($893,131). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- CoreGiving Coshared funders
- Chicago Association of REALTORSportfolio match
- Illinois Corn Marketing Boardportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 2% · 2020 6% · 2021 28% · 2022 8% · 2023 17% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $307k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $176k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Restaurant Association). These are real filings, and they are not money ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS 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
ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 50% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
94% of ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Illinois 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- CoreGiving Coshared fundersIL · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- Chicago Association of REALTORSportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Corn Marketing Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicagoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Local Union 130 Uaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Painters & Allied Trades District Council #14portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-America Carpenters Regional Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Javon Bea Hospitalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Beef Cattle Producers Association Dba Iowa Beef Industry Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding Americashared fundersIL · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Ira Educational Foundation · exempt
- Illinois Restauranteurs PAC · exempt
- Chicago Gourmet LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION?
- ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $954,366 to it, the largest being Women's Business Development Center ($893,131). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $954,366 in grants to ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION?
- Women's Business Development Center is the largest funder on record, with $893,131 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing