New York State Restaurant Revitalization Fund Grant Recipients

Restaurant Revitalization Fund grants were awarded to New York State businesses under the American Rescue Plan Act, with funding up to $10 million per business. The dataset lists recipients and details grant purposes. It was published by data.ny.gov and last updated in April 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyze funding distribution by county using the Counties column and grant amounts.
• Model relationships between business attributes like LegalOrganizationType, VeteranIndicator, or WomenOwnedIndicator and approval likelihood.
• Assess spatial patterns of aid by joining on Georeference or New York Zip Codes.
• Break down grant fund allocation across specific purposes like grant_purpose_payroll, grant_purpose_rent, and grant_purpose_supplies.
• Examine temporal trends in approvals using the ApprovalDate_Year, ApprovalDate_Month, and ApprovalDate_Day columns.

Strengths

• Includes 30 distinct columns detailing business attributes, grant purposes, and location.
• Contains geospatial join keys (Georeference, New York Zip Codes) for mapping analysis.
• Data is specific to a major economic relief program with defined eligibility rules.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, preventing assessment of statistical power.
• Data is static from a 2022 update and does not reflect post-March 2023 fund usage compliance.
• Sample data is unavailable to verify data quality and null value prevalence.

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov, the official open data portal for New York State.

Collection Method

Administrative records from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund program.

Time Range

Approval dates covered by the ApprovalDate columns; program active during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Freshness

Last updated on 2022-04 19; static snapshot.

Geography

New York State, United States.