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Burger King Foundation Inc

The burger king foundation believes in empowerment through education and lending a helping hand, when needed, thus allowing you to live life your way.

$7.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$20MFood & Nutrition$550kYouth Development$81k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $5,656,988, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,975,511 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,318,523 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.4M
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$3,792,814
KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION$1,645,970
NATIONAL RESTAURANT EDUCATION FUND$150,400
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$30,000
FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITAT$15,500
BRANCHES OF SOUTH FLORIDA$10,126
BREAKTHROUGH$6,178
THE EDUCATION FUND$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $4.2M → 9%KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 14%ROOM TO READ: $445k → 10%NATIONAL RESTAURANT EDUCATION FUND: $150k → 14%BREAKTHROUGH: $6k → 15%SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $3.9M → 9%KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 14%ROOM TO READ: $409k → 10%NATIONAL RESTAURANT EDUCATION FUND: $150k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $35k → 15%SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $3.8M → 9%ROOM TO READ: $150k → 10%NATIONAL RESTAURANT EDUCATION FUND: $150k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $30k → 15%SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $3.5M → 9%ROOM TO READ: $100k → 10%NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDU: $150k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $30k → 15%SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $3.3M → 9%NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDU: $50k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI: $16k → 15%SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $3.2M → 9%NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDU: $50k → 14%BRANCHES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $10k → 15%GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITAT: $16k → 15%THE EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 15%THE EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 15%THE EDUCATION FUND: $6k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 6 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$27M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +37%
  • RT
    ROOM TO READ
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +37%
  • TN
    The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $701k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • GU
    GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +22%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
3
Kipp Miami Inc

Kipp miami public schools seek to create and sustain high achieving and inspiring community schools that battle inequity by empowering students to develop the knowledge, skills, character strengths, and habits to thrive in college and…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
Imentor Inc

Imentor is a not-for-profit organization that partners with public high schools in low income communities, where a majority of students served will be first-generation college graduates. imentor believes in the transformative power of…

Youth Development
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Miami Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gallaudet University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $21,954,185 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $2,777,470 · EducationKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATIONROOM TO READ: $1,103,878 · Education+4 more: $62,678 · EducationThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $700,800 · Food & NutritionBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC: $111,044 · Youth DevelopmentBRANCHES INC: $10,126 · Other
Education$25,898,211Food & Nutrition$700,800Youth Development$111,044Other$10,126

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $21,954,185 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $2,777,470 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetROOM TO READ: $1,103,878 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $700,800 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC: $111,044 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN: $26,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC: $6,178 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA12.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Burger King Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burger King Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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