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Fat Brands Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k62 grants · $265k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MARIN HUMANE | $10,000 |
| National Restaurant Association Educatio | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LA MISSION | $10,000 |
| THREE SQUARE | $10,000 |
| THE GIVING SPIRIT | $8,000 |
| Step Up on Second Street | $7,500 |
| PATHWAYS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $7,000 |
| YOUTH BUSINESS ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| SPECIAL NEEDS NETWORK | $6,000 |
| THE GEMINI FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| PROVIDENCE TARZANA FOUNDATION | $5,650 |
| Kids in Need Foundation | $5,500 |
| Shaun Foundation | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SUSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +54%
VISION TO LEARN2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +40%- HFHOLDYOU FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- MUMAUI UNITED WAYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +188%
- VFVictims First Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -95%
- COChildren of Restaurant Employees COREone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
Project angel food (the organization) improves health and fights food insecurity for critically ill individuals in los angeles county through its medically tailored meal program and nutrition counseling. for over 35 years, they have served…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
La clinica provides primary and preventive medical, dental, behavioral health, and other health promotion services to underserved and low-income patients.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hit Living Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds HOLDYOU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Victims First Inc ↗
- Who funds National Restaurant Association ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED IN HARMONY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds Big Sunday ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARTEL ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Special Needs Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Youth Business Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds REACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fat Brands Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Shadow Project — 8% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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