California · Nonprofit
Protect Local Restaurants
Protect Local Restaurants (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $178,079 to it, the largest being No on AB 1228 - Stop the Attack on Local Restaurants ($178,079). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $905k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $178k
- Net assets
- $652k
What Protect Local Restaurants does
Mission
To promote the common good and social welfare of the public by educating and advocating on important issues of public policy, including issues related to consumers, local restaurants, and workers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promoted the common good and social welfare of the public by educating and advocating on important issues of public policy, including issues related to consumers, local restaurants, and workers.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $178k to $652k (+266%).
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 Protect Local Restaurants’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Protect Local Restaurants’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 Protect Local Restaurants's grant income comes from California 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.
Against its field
Protect Local Restaurants runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Protect Local Restaurants
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Protect Local Restaurants: 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 Protect Local Restaurants?
- Protect Local Restaurants (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $178,079 to it, the largest being No on AB 1228 - Stop the Attack on Local Restaurants ($178,079). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Protect Local Restaurants have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $178,079 in grants to Protect Local Restaurants.
- Who is the largest funder of Protect Local Restaurants?
- No on AB 1228 - Stop the Attack on Local Restaurants is the largest funder on record, with $178,079 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Protect Local Restaurants find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2023–2024), 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