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Taco Bell Foundation Inc

The taco bell foundation breaks down barriers to educate and inspire the next generation of leaders.

$35M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$17M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Youth Development$34MHuman Services$27MEducation$16MInternational$3.1MHealth$254kCommunity Improvement$211kEmployment$160kArts & Culture$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 38 grants below total $23,574,339 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $34,628,311 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,053,972 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $316k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $162k
  • $250k+6 grants · $23M
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SUNCOAST$17,368,920
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TAMPA BAY$2,596,570
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VALDOSTA$1,457,700
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER$1,157,020
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH$260,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO$250,000
C5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORN$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CAPISTRANO VALLEY$61,952
MORRY'S CAMP INC$32,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTY$14,177
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY$10,000
CITY YEAR INC$10,000
NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 10%ALABAMA POSSIBLE: $10k → 16%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $13k → 14%ALABAMA POSSIBLE: $10k → 16%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $8k → 14%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $7k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSE: $10k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $25k → 14%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$49M · 26 repeat orgs$32M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
18

Total granted

$49M
$8.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+3%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentInternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthEmploymentOther

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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    4× · 2017–2023 · $6.9M · revenue +62%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +15%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUST
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • KS
    KALEIDOSCOPE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $8.1M
  • IF
    IOLA Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $206k · revenue -31%
  • A
    ASHOKA
    one grant, 2022 · $201k · revenue -8%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Junior Achievement of Sacramento Inc

Provide in school programs that educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business, economics and improve the quality of their lives.

International
2
Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc

The boys & girls clubs of the greater chippewa valley's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

Youth Development
3
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
4
Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley

To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
5
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc

The mission of the boys & girls club of palm beach county is to inspire and assist all young people, especially those who need them most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
6
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc

Junior achievement - rocky mountain, inc. (ja) is critical for inspiring and preparing young people to own their economic success. in partnership with business and educators, ja immerses students in disruptive, real-world experiences,…

International
7
Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.

Youth Development
8
Boys & Girls Clubs of East Alabama

To inspire all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

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9
Junior Achievement of Greater St Louis Inc

Empowering young people to own their economic success through work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy.

International
10
Boys and Girls Clubs of King County

Youth health and social, educational, and character development of youth.

Recreation & Sports
11
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
12
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Greater Washington and the most unlike its peers is American Educational Assistance 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Development ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Christian Youth CampsCancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesYmca Youth DevelopmentYouth Mentoring ProgramsYouth Development Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%28%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 28% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,486

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.

04the grantee network

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
40/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOURCAUSE LLC — $27,377,052 · OtherYOURCAUSE LLCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INC — $17,368,920 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INCCITY YEAR INC — $3,360,116 · OtherCITY YEAR INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA (LOCAL OFFICES - LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST) — $2,727,811 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUST — $2,539,441 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA (LOCAL OFFICES - LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST) — $1,938,173 · Other+28 more — $2,700,816 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $6,908,158 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLU…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC — $2,596,570 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLU…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VALDOSTA INC — $1,457,700 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLU…+17 more — $1,004,129 · Youth Development+17 moreKALEIDOSCOPE SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $8,050,000 · EducationKALEIDOSCOPE …NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC — $1,709,445 · EducationNATIONAL COLL…+5 more — $170,400 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $206,940 · InternationalASHOKA — $201,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $130,350 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $100,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO — $69,610 · International+3 more — $24,400 · InternationalLines for Life — $156,000 · HealthCRISIS TEXT LINE INC — $50,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $28,660 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON — $19,490 · HealthIOLA Foundation — $206,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY — $10,000 · PhilanthropyJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $150,000 · EmploymentThe Rightway Foundation — $10,000 · Employment
Other$58,012,329Youth Development$11,966,557Education$9,929,845International$732,300Health$254,150Philanthropy$216,000Employment$160,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $6,908,158 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $3,360,116 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC — $2,596,570 over 1y, 24% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUST — $2,539,441 over 2y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC — $1,709,445 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VALDOSTA INC — $1,457,700 over 1y, 38% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INC — $1,157,020 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTHE GET SCHOOLED FOUNDATION — $768,316 over 2y, 21% of budgetMONEYTHINK — $345,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH — $260,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $206,940 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetIOLA Foundation — $206,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetASHOKA — $201,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLines for Life — $156,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $130,350 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetUASPIRE INC — $126,900 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO — $69,610 over 2y, 16% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CAPISTRANO VALLEY — $61,952 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNotes For Notes Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMORRY'S CAMP INC — $32,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $28,660 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAPID CITY Y M C A — $28,240 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOHN W HEREFORD BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUBS OF HUNTINGTON INC — $23,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCASA OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC — $22,020 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetALABAMA POSSIBLE — $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON — $19,490 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $14,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC — $14,177 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DUMPLIN VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYouthbuild Collaborative of Southern California — $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCHILL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Boys & Girls Clubs of…The Blackbaud Giving …Rite Aid Healthy Futu…Boys & Girls Clubs of…Charities Aid Foundat…Inspire Brands Founda…Cla FoundationIma FoundationWeingart FoundationPublix Super Markets …The Albertsons Compan…Junior Achievement USA
Boys & Girls Clubs of AmericaGA27.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boys & Girls Clubs of America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Charities Aid Foundation America · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Cla Foundation · Ima Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Junior Achievement USA

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 Taco Bell Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Chill Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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