Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC
MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,057 to it, the largest being The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ($224,057). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $299k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Mass Restaurant Association Inc does
Mission
Servicing the hotel/restaurant industry in massachusetts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our most popular service is our informational services. In today's rapidly changing regulatory world, operators need to stay informed in order to comply with new laws and regulations. Our members can call us and ask us any legal or regulatory question and we will research the answer for them. Additionally, we send out alerts, newsletters and e-newsletters with any pertinent information that they should know in order to comply with a new law or regulation. The new england food show is our biggest event. It is produced and owned by our partner, the national restaurant association. There is approximately 50,000 square feet of exhibitor space. There are chef demos, educational seminars, and keynote speakers. About 10,000 attendees will visit the show over a three day period to see the very latest in food and beverage products, equipment, technology and services. Government affairs uses a great deal of our resources. There are so many bills that are proposed in a year that could hurt or help the industry. Our job is twofold: to educate the legislators and to educate our members. It's important that the legislators be aware of the effects of their legislation. We do this by meeting with…
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $3.5M to $3.0M (−15%).
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. 4 of the last 7 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
Stephen Clark
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $26k → $60k.
From the IRS filings of MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC’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
MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
92% 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 MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 77% · 2019 66% · 2020 93% · 2021 90% · 2022 97% — 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
MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 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 MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Mra Educational Foundation · exempt
- Association Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC: 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 MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC?
- MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,057 to it, the largest being The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ($224,057). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $299,057 in grants to MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC?
- The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $224,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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