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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $23,574,339, the rows itemized in this filing. The $34,628,311 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,053,972 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH$10,000
NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC$10,000
CHILL FOUNDATION$10,000
YOUTHBUILD COLLABORATIVE OF SOUTHERN CAL$10,000
BRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (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 its 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
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

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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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 ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • 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%
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.

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
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
3
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
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 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
6
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
7
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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8
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
9
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

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

Education
10
Junior Achievement of Greater St Louis Inc

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

International
11
Boys and Girls Clubs of King County

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

Recreation & Sports
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Greater Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
41/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Conejo Valley Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEAM KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $10,000 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.

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 77 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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