Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,829,224 to it, the largest being The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ($710,618). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Texas Restaurant Association Education Foundation Inc does
Mission
As the workforce development arm of the association, the foundation provides pathways to rewarding careers in an industry where all are welcome. 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
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization launched its second chances program in 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Texas prostart and prostart invitational - high school culinary and management program to foster the next generation in restaurant and foodservice employees. In collaboration with the national restaurant association education foundation, the trf works to support the teachers in more than 250 texas prostart schools and manages the largest annual competition invitational in the united states.
$606,767 spentof which $47,500 as grants$119,143 earned by the program80% of program spendingGrants & scholarships - the trf manages and distributes scholarships to students in the prostart program across the state of texas and manages the tx restaurant relief fund which provides grants to texas foodservice operators in times of crisis (pandemic, wildfires, floods, hurricanes, etc.) to keep their doors open and retain their employees.
$149,481 spentof which $109,948 as grants$3,676 earned by the program20% of program spendingSecond chances - launched in 2024, the program, in collaboration with the texas department of criminal justice, works to provide justice-involved individuals with training that leads to a long-lasting career in the foodservice upon release.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $756,248.
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 2019 to 2020, from $622k to $1.5M (+133%).
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: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Chief executive
Emily Williams Knight
President & CEO
Board chair
Russell Woodward
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $67k → $164k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $55k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Texas Restaurant Association - Houston Chapter). These are real filings, and they are not money TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 45% · 2022 86% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“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
43% of TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
54% of TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $269k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Texas Restaurant Association · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,829,224 to it, the largest being The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ($710,618). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,829,224 in grants to TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $710,618 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC 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 14 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