Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION
MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $139,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN OPPORTUNITY ($139,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association does
Mission
To lead the foodservice, lodging and hospitality industry through advocacy, education and innovation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Publication - the mrla magazine is designed to inform and educate members about industry developments (approximately 2,000 members served)
Seminars/industry mixers- members are brought together to share their expertise. Seminars are provided to educate members on industry topics. (600 members attended the wihl conference, in addition to various other small seminars/event held with less than 100 individuals at each event)
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
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 $6.0M to $7.7M (+27%).
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: 2021 17% · 2022 6% · 2023 6% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. 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
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
Justin Winslow
President & CEO
Board chair
Jean Lanfear
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $309k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
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 MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Michigan Hospitality Foundation · exempt
- Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association PAC · exempt
- Michigan Opportunity · exempt
- Hospitality Industry Protection Fund · exempt
- Hospitality Training Institute of Michigan Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING 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 MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION?
- MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $139,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN OPPORTUNITY ($139,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $139,000 in grants to MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION?
- MICHIGAN OPPORTUNITY is the largest funder on record, with $139,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN RESTAURANT & LODGING ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), 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