New York · Nonprofit
KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND
KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,000 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($55,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $246k
- Net assets
- $178k
What Keller Restaurant Relief Fund does
Mission
To provide timely financial assistance to the employees and former employees of entities in the thomas keller restaurant group and members of their families who are impacted by a national emergency, disaster, or other emergency hardship and thereby experience financially devastating circumstances beyond their control and means, with recipients being selected based on an objective determination of need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Until recently, there were approximately 1,200 thomas keller entity employees working in the restaurant and hospitality industry. From time to time, qualified disasters have impacted the lives of some of these individuals, and both the thomas keller restaurant group and the thomas keller entity employees have expressed a desire to provde financial assistance to such individuals in their times of need. Most recently, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (covid-19) has impacted a substantial portion of these individuals.the Keller Restaurant Relief Fund accepts contributions and provides financial assistance to affected thomas keller entity employees, and, where appropriate, their families. The fund is managed by a board of directors comprised of thomas keller entity employees, no more than a minority of whom are substantial influencers of the thomas keller restaurant group. The board selects the recipients of financial assistance in accordance with the grant-making policy adopted by the board. Accordingly, the thomas keller restaurant group's rank and file employee representatives have majority control over all decision making with respect to qualification for and award of…
$51,398 spentof which $51,398 as grants$16,690 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $51,398.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $219k to $178k (−19%).
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.
100% of KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Joe Wender
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $65k → $25k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND’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
KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 38% · 2021 38% · 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $110k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND is better cushioned than half of the 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND?
- KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,000 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($55,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $246,000 in grants to KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND?
- THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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