California · Private foundation
Fat Brands Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $201k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 79%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 67
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 79% of the organizations Fat Brands Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 54 | $201k | 93% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $319k | 79% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $240k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maui United Way | $20,241 | 1 | 1% |
| Dream Center Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Step Up on Second Street Inc | $13,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Vision to Learn | $13,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Holdyou Foundation Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Victims First Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Los Angeles Mission Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United in Harmony | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| National Restaurant Association | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 107 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fat Brands Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · United Way Inc · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
How this is measured
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About Fat Brands Foundation
- How much does Fat Brands Foundation give?
- Fat Brands Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $201,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 67 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Fat Brands Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Youth Development (13%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Fat Brands Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Maui United Way ($20k), Dream Center Foundation ($15k), Step Up on Second Street Inc ($14k).
- Does Fat Brands Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fat Brands Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fat Brands Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rose Hills Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Fat Brands Foundation based?
- Fat Brands Foundation is based in CA.
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