Lawrence Restaurant Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850521042
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lawrence, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9135587849
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,860
- Expenses
- $37,383
- Assets
- $22,962
- Liabilities
- $3,850
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Codi Bates (Vice President)
- Laura Klien (President)
People named in this filing
- Codi Bates (Vice President)
- Mary Holt (Director)
- Laura Klien (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The lawrence restaurant association lra is an assembly of commercial restaurant owners, executive chefs and hospitality industry professionals who work together for the benefit of lawrence, ks and douglas county, ks. Lra aims to support hospitality industry workers, our community, economy and environment within douglas county, ks through funds, grants and community support programs. Lra was founded in 2017 with principal fundraising activities beginning in 2020. The hospitality workers relief fund relief fund was established by lra in 2020 to provide direct aid to unemployed and underemployed service industry workers as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. Lra intends to maintain the relief fund beyond the resolution of the pandemic to provide emergency aid to hospitality workers experiencing unforeseen financial hardships in addition to other community support causes such as hunger relief, food waste reduction and future programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Support for hospitality workers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 42.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.9% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.