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NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC
NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,798 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($303,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $465k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $549k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association Foundation Inc does
Mission
The north carolina restaurant & lodging association is a philanthropic organization that supports the north carolina hospitality industry's service to the public through education, community service, community engagement, and promotion of career opportunities. Ncrla foundation works to attract, develop, support, and retain a career-oriented professional workforce for the hospitality industry. We provide grants to workers in the hospitality industry who face financial hardships. We support career and technical education programming in nc classrooms with the goal of introducing students to career opportunities and facilitating on-the-job work experience in nc restaurants and hotels.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The north carolina restaurant and lodging association foundation supports prostart programming in high schools across the state by providing resources to supplement classroom instruction and by connecting hospitality industry professionals with the classroom. North carolina restaurant and lodging association foundation provides grants to classroom teachers and awards scholarships to students who aspire to careers in the hospitality industry.
$246,154 spentof which $131,250 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $246,154.
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 $933k to $1.1M (+22%).
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: 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $213k → $11.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $282k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION 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
NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 47% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
90% of NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $493k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $172k on record.
- Department of Commerce$172k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- North Carolina Restaurant and Lodgi · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC?
- NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,798 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($303,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $548,798 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $303,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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