California · Public charity
Taco Bell Foundation Inc
The taco bell foundation breaks down barriers to educate and inspire the next generation of leaders.
- $35M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $24M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $17,368,920
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $82M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Taco Bell Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $24M | 86% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $16M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $16M | 54% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $9.8M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $5.2M | 43% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $6.2M | 32% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $4.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yourcause LLC | $27,377,052 | 5 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Suncoast Inc | $17,368,920 | 1 | n/a |
| Kaleidoscope Scholarship Fund | $8,050,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $6,908,158 | 4 | 2% |
| City Year Inc | $3,360,116 | 8 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Tampa Bay Inc | $2,596,570 | 1 | 24% |
| Junior Achievement USA Health & Welfare Benefit Plan Trust | $2,539,441 | 2 | 16% |
| National College Advising Corps Inc | $1,709,445 | 7 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta Inc | $1,457,700 | 1 | 38% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Whittier Inc | $1,157,020 | 1 | 9% |
Show all 74 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Taco Bell Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Taco Bell Foundation Inc
- How much does Taco Bell Foundation Inc give?
- Taco Bell Foundation Inc reported 38 itemized grants totaling $23,574,339, out of $34,628,311 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Taco Bell Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (41%), Human Services (34%), Education (20%).
- Who are Taco Bell Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yourcause LLC ($27M), Boys and Girls Club of the Suncoast Inc ($17M), Kaleidoscope Scholarship Fund ($8.1M).
- Does Taco Bell Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Taco Bell Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boys & Girls Clubs of America, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Rite Aid Healthy Futures.
- Where is Taco Bell Foundation Inc based?
- Taco Bell Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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