ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

EIN 36-3271510 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025: $812,528
Expenses 2025: $447,052

Program services were 78.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A82Z
Classification: 2000
Street: 33 W MONROE ST STE 250

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

ADAM BARRONS

CHAIRMAN

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BRYCE BURTON

1ST VICE CHAIRMAN

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BRAD VANCIL

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
WAYNE HILSTON

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LEIGH UHLIR

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DEVEN RAND

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DALEESIA UNDERWOOD

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
VIVIANA RADENBAUGH

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
RAYVA MYLES

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
ANTHONY TERLATO JR

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MIKE COKER

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JOEL REYNOLDS

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
PATTI GREEN

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CHRISTINE DESOUSA

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
RICHARD SCHNEIDER

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BYRON WILLIAMS

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
RENEE SYKES

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
NATALIE OLUND

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JESSICA BLOMQUIST LAMERS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$128,227

From this org

$0

From related orgs

$125,688

Other

$2,539

Hours/week

40
SAM TOIA

2ND VICE CHAIRMAN

Total calculated

$439,535

From this org

$0

From related orgs

$417,201

Other

$22,334

Hours/week

1 + 63 related

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$0 + $321,901 related

Bonus

$0 + $95,300 related

Other

$0

Deferred

$0 + $10,500 related

Nontaxable benefits

$0 + $11,834 related

Filer's total

$0 + $439,535 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2025

Revenue

$812,528

Expenses

$447,052

Contributions

$579,019

Grants paid

$128,700
2024

Revenue

$517,429

Expenses

$444,725

Contributions

$286,137

Grants paid

$122,100
2023

Revenue

$487,658

Expenses

$421,927

Contributions

$244,031

Grants paid

$115,450
2022

Revenue

$451,897

Expenses

$398,872

Contributions

$249,269

Grants paid

$100,000

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$812,528	$447,052	$579,019	$128,700
2024	$517,429	$444,725	$286,137	$122,100
2023	$487,658	$421,927	$244,031	$115,450
2022	$451,897	$398,872	$249,269	$100,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$610,840

Expenses

$473,788

Assets (EOY)

$1,348,179
2020 · 990

Revenue

$846,048

Expenses

$718,187

Assets (EOY)

$1,159,289
2019 · 990

Revenue

$439,920

Expenses

$478,579

Assets (EOY)

$1,113,128
2018 · 990

Revenue

$439,435

Expenses

$452,431

Assets (EOY)

$1,005,056
2017 · 990

Revenue

$446,240

Expenses

$462,386

Assets (EOY)

$1,110,821
2016 · 990

Revenue

$545,345

Expenses

$475,813

Assets (EOY)

$1,062,028
2015 · 990

Revenue

$486,847

Expenses

$471,289

Assets (EOY)

$929,585
2014 · 990

Revenue

$549,497

Expenses

$486,568

Assets (EOY)

$929,040
2013 · 990

Revenue

$659,820

Expenses

$562,049

Assets (EOY)

$948,974
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$441,676

Assets (EOY)

$850,844

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$610,840	$473,788	$1,348,179
2020	990	$846,048	$718,187	$1,159,289
2019	990	$439,920	$478,579	$1,113,128
2018	990	$439,435	$452,431	$1,005,056
2017	990	$446,240	$462,386	$1,110,821
2016	990	$545,345	$475,813	$1,062,028
2015	990	$486,847	$471,289	$929,585
2014	990	$549,497	$486,568	$929,040
2013	990	$659,820	$562,049	$948,974
2012	990	not reported	$441,676	$850,844

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION

$230,000

2024 CULINARY AND NUTRITION EDUCATION
THE NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

$49,114

2024 ProStart Program
THE NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

$27,010

2022 ProStart Program
THE NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

$26,908

2023 ProStart Program
JOURNEY FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC

$20,000

2025 TO SUPPORT THE GROWTH OF STUDENTS IN THE SOUTHSIDE AND CHICAGOLAND AREAS THROUGH HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY TRAINING AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
JOURNEY FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC

$15,000

2024 TO SUPPORT THE GROWTH OF STUDENTS IN THE SOUTHSIDE AND CHICAGOLAND AREAS THROUGH HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY TRAINING AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION

501(C)(6) · TRADE ASSOCIATION · IL
ILLINOIS RESTAURANTEURS PAC

527 · PAC · IL

Declared as related by

ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION

On its 2025 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.