Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION
WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $510k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $255k
What Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation does
Mission
The wra education foundation is leading solutions, career development and training provider for washington state's hospitality community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Prostart is a nationwide two-year hospitality program that develops culinary techniques and management skills in high school students. The industry-driven curriculum links classroom learning with hands-on experience to develop the best and brightest talent in tomorrow's restaurant and food service leaders. With support of community-minded industry members, washington's prostart program reaches more than 1,500 high school students per year.
$216,019 spentof which $4,140 as grants$22,684 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $216,019.
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 2022 to 2023, from $88k to $527k (+498%).
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 19% · 2018 27% · 2020 6% · 2021 30% · 2022 12% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Anthony Anton
President & CEO
Board chair
Brian Moreno
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $510k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Washington Restaurant Association). These are real filings, and they are not money WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
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.
Against its field
WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 5 related entities
- Washington Hospitality Association · exempt
- Wra Political Action Committee · exempt
- Washington Hospitality Association Insurance Services LLC · corp_trust
- Wra Member Services Corp · corp_trust
- Wra Retro Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION 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 WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $60,000 in grants to WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing