New York · Nonprofit
RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC
RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC (New York) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,230,832 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($11,427,985). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc does
Mission
To serve as a resource and advocacy organization for low-income and otherwise disadvantaged restaurant workers across the country, providing job training, support services, research and advocacy for needy restaurant workers and the general public.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
ROC United has been constantly inspired by a community of thousands of members, supporters, funders and staff by its side. They are the reasons why we believe we can improve the lives of restaurant workers and make the restaurant industry a better place to work in our lifetime. In summary, as a national organization, we are proud of what we accomplished in 2023 Reintroduced the Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights, in a day of action in front of the State Capitol Building with dozens of restaurant workers from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, Michigan, and New Orleans. Representative Rashida Tlaib MI-12, along with 19 original sponsors, introduced H.R. 702 in Congress. The bill was drafted in collaboration with ROC United and endorsed by 60 organizations. Hosted an in-person roundtable discussion with Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su and restaurant workers and operators in New York City. The roundtable centered on the need for heat standards, job protections, workforce development programs to support good quality jobs, and ROC Uniteds partnership with th
$4,151,392 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,151,392.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.2M to $7.8M (−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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 3% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 23% · 2022 1% · 2023 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Teofilo Reyes
Interim president/CEO
Board chair
Maria Figueroa
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 26 funders to 23 funders, grant income fell $4.4M → $3.1M.
31 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 funders by total. 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
RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 23% · 2019 32% · 2020 45% · 2021 17% · 2022 39% · 2023 42% — 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.
How long its funders stay
23% of RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
61% of RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Organizations like RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Roc Action · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED 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 RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC?
- RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC (New York) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,230,832 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($11,427,985). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $32,230,832 in grants to RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,427,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 111 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