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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 FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$120kYouth Development$72kFood & Nutrition$59kHuman Services$58kEmployment$45kHousing & Shelter$37kArts & Culture$31kEducation$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $186k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$3,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dream Center Foundation$15,000
Seeds of Fortune Inc$5,250
School Lunch Matters$5,000
Exceptional Minds$5,000
San Ysidro Health$5,000
WI Cook Foundation Inc$5,000
Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer$5,000
Jacaranda Housing$5,000
Rachels Bags of Love Inc$5,000
March of Dimes$5,000
EntreNous Community Empowerment$5,000
The Crayon Initiative$5,000
Columbia Ability Alliance Columbia Indu$5,000
J3 Foundation$5,000
Broncos Kitchen Foundation$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Victims First Inc: $10k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $4k → 7%PATHWAYS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 13%Reaching Maximum Independence: $6k → 16%Early Learning Centers of Lubbock: $2k → 17%Robert Irvine Foundation: $10k → 13%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $5k → 15%Practical Knowledge Inc: $5k → 13%Limitless Disability Services: $4k → 6%Vista del Mar Child and Family Services: $3k → 14%GIRLS OF EXCELLENCE: $2k → 13%SPECIAL NEEDS NETWORK: $6k → 14%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $8k → 14%Step Up on Second Street: $8k → 14%Step Up on Second Street: $6k → 14%Dream Center Foundation: $15k → 14%Exceptional Minds: $5k → 14%Covenant House CA: $5k → 14%Pathways LA: $4k → 14%Ability First: $5k → 14%United in Harmony: $5k → 14%United in Harmony: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$163k · 18 repeat orgs$597k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
76

Total granted

$163k
$411k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & 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

  • SU
    STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +54%
  • VISION TO LEARN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +40%
  • HF
    HOLDYOU FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • MU
    MAUI UNITED WAYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +188%
  • VF
    Victims First Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -95%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MISSION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -5%
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.

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La's Best

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).

Education
2
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
3
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
5
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
6
Alliance for Children's Rights

The alliance has improved the lives of more than 178,000 young clients with stability through adoption and legal guardianship, and with access to healthcare, education, and other critical supports, serving over 5,600 children and young…

Unclassified
7
Children's Institute Inc

Cii transforms the lives of children exposed to adversity and poverty in los angeles. by providing early education, behavioral health and family strengthening services, cii reaches 30,000 children and families annually in communities where…

Human Services
8
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
9
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
10
Feeding San Diego

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 & Nutrition
11
Legacy La Youth Development Corp

To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…

Crime & Legal
12
Options for Learning

Options for learning is a leader in preparing children and supporting families for life success through innovative, quality child development programs.vision: unlocking the promise of every child.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home of the Innocents Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 145 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/100
Grantees still filing
38/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+77 more: $379,100 · Other+77 moreDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesDREAM CENTER FOUNDA…STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECOND S…Victims First Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesVictims First IncUNITED IN HARMONY: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED IN HARMONYROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesROBERT IRVINE FOUND…THE GIVING SPIRIT: $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE GIVING SPIRITPATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesSpecial Needs Network Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesREACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE: $6,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5,000 · Human ServicesCASA DE MISERICORDIA: $5,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRST: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $5,000 · Human ServicesPRACTICAL KNOWLEGDE INC: $4,500 · Human Services+6 more: $19,350 · Human Services+6 moreVISION TO LEARN: $13,500 · HealthVISION TO LE…HOLDYOU FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · HealthHOLDYOU FOUN…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIM…CHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL (: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S A…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $9,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC …CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY: $6,650 · HealthCONVALESCENT…PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $5,650 · HealthPROVIDENCE H…CENTRO DE SALUD DE LA COMUNIDAD DE SAN YSIDRO INC: $5,000 · HealthCENTRO DE SA…WI Cook Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthWI Cook Foun…IMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 · HealthIMUA FAMILY …+2 more: $3,200 · HealthMAUI UNITED WAY: $20,241 · PhilanthropyCANCER CARTEL: $7,500 · PhilanthropyRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyYouth Business Alliance Inc: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyDEFY VENTURES INC: $7,500 · EducationKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationREALITY CHANGERS: $5,200 · EducationEntrenous Community Empowerment Inc: $5,000 · EducationThe Crayon Initiative: $5,000 · EducationWILLIAM S HART EDUCATION FOUNDATION WISH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EducationTHE SHADOW PROJECT: $2,500 · EducationPrivate School Axis: $2,500 · EducationCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $2,000 · EducationSTILETTO BOSS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationMORE PERFECT UNION: $1,500 · EducationTHREE SQUARE: $10,000 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $8,000 · Food & NutritionSCHOOL LUNCH MATTERS INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFARM SHARE INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionPNW Plateful: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFIGHT2FEED A CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $2,500 · Food & NutritionARTS BRIDGING THE GAP: $7,500 · Arts & CultureSCOTTSDALE ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL ARTS CORPORATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Dance Theatre Inc: $4,000 · Arts & CultureVIVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $2,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNAL CREATIONS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE GLENDALE YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WILL INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBRIGHT LIGHTS THEATRE: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$379,100Human Services$134,350Health$85,500Philanthropy$46,241Education$42,200Food & Nutrition$40,500Arts & Culture$38,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $20,241 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLDYOU FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetVictims First Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNational Restaurant Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL (: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA INDUSTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sunday: $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING SPIRIT: $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CARTEL: $7,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTS BRIDGING THE GAP: $7,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY: $6,650 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYouth Business Alliance Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSpecial Needs Network Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $5,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEEDS OF FORTUNE INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREALITY CHANGERS: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLYWOOD POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEntrenous Community Empowerment Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL LUNCH MATTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetL A WORKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIT LIVING FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCASA DE MISERICORDIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Crayon Initiative: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA IMPACT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLACER AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …Jewish Community Foun…The Stanley & Joyce B…Harvey E Najim Charit…United Way IncStern Sidney Memorial…Elbridge Stuart Found…Pasadena Community Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…
The Rose Hills FoundationCA17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Fat Brands Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fat Brands Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fat Brands Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fat Brands Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 145 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-PF 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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