Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,500 to it, the largest being FWDUS INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $408k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Texas Restaurant Association does
Mission
To be the most trusted and indispensable partner for every foodservice operator in texas-championing their success through deep relationships, world-class advocacy, and unmatched resources-while building a thriving, inclusive, and sustainable hospitality industry for generations to come. We live our mission through our core values: nimble, trusted, empathetic, compassionate, entrepreneurial, inclusive, smart, strategic, and connected.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Membership & member engagement - as a 501(c)(6) member driven organization, it is our fundamental focus to engage and retain the most restaurant and foodservice operators in texas as members of the association.
Texas restaurant show - our annual trade show and education conference is the largest state-run convention of its kind, and second largest in the us behind the nra annual restaurant show. The event brings together the industry and presents them with the latest information, innovations, and technologies/equipment in order to successfully run their foodservice establishments.
Sponsor and partner relationships - to bring a curated set of solutions to our members, supporting their running of an efficient operations, the tra seeks our sponsors and partners to provide not only financial support of the association so that dues may be kept at a reasonable, but also to provide our membership with the products, services, and discounts that help them run an efficient and more profitable business.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $10.0M (−20%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Emily Williams Knight
President & CEO
Board chair
Skeeter Miller
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $228k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION’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
TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 78% · 2021 63% · 2022 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
51% of TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Texas Restaurant Association Education Foundation Inc · exempt
- Restaurant Insurance Solutions Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: 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 TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION?
- TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,500 to it, the largest being FWDUS INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $407,500 in grants to TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION?
- FWDUS INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 3 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