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Restaurant Law Center

Restaurant Law Center (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,579,000 to it, the largest being National Restaurant Association ($1,579,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$667k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$-51703
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($245k) Expenses 100 ($429k) Net assets -25 ($-11742)2018 Revenue 188 ($460k) Expenses 93 ($401k) Net assets 100 ($47k)2019 Revenue 189 ($464k) Expenses 108 ($464k) Net assets 101 ($48k)2020 Revenue 194 ($476k) Expenses 105 ($453k) Net assets 149 ($71k)2021 Revenue 240 ($589k) Expenses 137 ($588k) Net assets 150 ($71k)2022 Revenue 301 ($736k) Expenses 179 ($768k) Net assets 83 ($39k)2023 Revenue 290 ($709k) Expenses 179 ($768k) Net assets -40 ($-18962)2024 Revenue 272 ($667k) Expenses 163 ($699k) Net assets -110 ($-51703)
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Revenue (272)Expenses (163)Net assets (-110)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Restaurant Law Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,403 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$184k
’17
$59k
’18
$577
’19
$23k
’20
$399
’21
−$32k
’22
−$58k
’23
−$33k
’24
0.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $225k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Restaurant Law Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of Restaurant Law Center's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

Restaurant Law Center has grown faster than half of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Restaurant Law Center

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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • National Restaurant Association · exempt
  • National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation · exempt
  • Multicultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance · exempt
  • NRA Political Action Committee · exempt
  • National Restaurant Association Services LLC · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Restaurant Law Center: 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 Restaurant Law Center?
Restaurant Law Center (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,579,000 to it, the largest being National Restaurant Association ($1,579,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Restaurant Law Center have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,579,000 in grants to Restaurant Law Center, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Restaurant Law Center?
National Restaurant Association is the largest funder on record, with $1,579,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Restaurant Law Center find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing