Rhode Island · Nonprofit
RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $403,342 to it, the largest being The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ($302,674). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $166k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $403k
- Net assets
- $118k
What Ri Hospitality Education Foundation does
Mission
To develop, support, and promote career growth opportunities within the hospitality industry to benefit students, organizations, and the economy. We achieve this mission through our work with youth, unemployed adults, and incumbent employees. Our focus is on career awareness providing work-readiness training, and offering skill training.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Encouraging individuals embarking on a career in the food service industry in rhode island and promoting education and understanding of the industry to the general public.hospitatlity career conference with 125 high school students attending from across the entire state. Partnerhip with fabnewport and van beuren charitable foundation to provide career- exploration experiences to middle school students allowing them to work in kitchens alongside chefs and industry leaders to get a real hands-on education. We awarded four local students with our annual scholarship this year. We helped over fifty industry workers this year through our employee relief fund, bringing our grant total to 296 since the pandemic. We trained 950 employees, a 37% increase in training over last year.
$168,467 spentof which $10,108 as grants$72,762 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $168,467.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $364k to $592k (+63%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
David Depetrillo
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $159k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 58% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ri Hospitality Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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 RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $403,342 to it, the largest being The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ($302,674). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $403,342 in grants to RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $302,674 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RI HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 6 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