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Wingstop Charities

To amplify the flavor of our communities through service.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$366k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$404kFood & Nutrition$397kYouth Development$329kEducation$288kRecreation & Sports$138kHuman Services$115kArts & Culture$82kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $1,027,780, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,367,464 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,339,684 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

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $682k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$882k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE$365,809
NO KID HUNGRY$316,671
PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE$50,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NATIONAL SPONSORSHIP$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS OF AMERICA$45,300
DUVAL TIGERS SPORTS ASSOCIATION$40,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$30,000
HUMAN OPTIONS$20,000
INDUSTRIAL ISD TRACK AND FIELD$20,000
LAKE HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY$20,000
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$20,000
HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$20,000
HEARTS OF RESCUE$20,000
CHANGE OUR FUTURE$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 (FY19–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE FARM INC: $10k → 11%TEXAS BLACK EXPO INC: $15k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%HOME MAKERS OF HOPE: $13k → 13%CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES: $10k → 6%Hope Farm: $6k → 11%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

IL
MI
NY
NV
OH
PA
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
DC
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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 4 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +206% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
49

Total granted

$103k
$772k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+206%
+0%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $988k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • Human Options Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue -18%
  • PT
    PTA TEXAS CONGRESS Sonntag Elementary PTA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue -97%
  • PF
    Pearl Foundation Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +249%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -72%
  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • PS
    Project Scientist Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -3%
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
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
2
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
3
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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4
Boys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas

To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.

Youth Development
5
Kids' Meals Inc
Human Services
6
Brighter Bites Inc

To create communities of health through fresh food. Brighter Bites seeks to improve health outcomes among children and families in under-resourced communities by using data-driven, evidence-based strategies for providing fresh produce and…

Food & Nutrition
7
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
8
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
9
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
10
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
11
Regional East Texas Food Bank

Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.

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12
Junior Achievement of South Texas Inc

Junior achievement of south texas's mission is to inspire and prepare young peopleto succeed in a global economy. the purpose is to educate and inspire young peopleto value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tru Prep Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lumedia Musicworks Inc. 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

49 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. 49 of the 65 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
27/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA (GROUP RETURN): $45,300 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA …DUVAL TIGERS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · OtherDUVAL TIGERS YOUTH SPORTS ASSO…HEARTS FULL OF GRACE INC: $20,000 · OtherDALLAS ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherINDUSTRIAL ISD TRACK AND FIELD: $20,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherHEARTS OF RESCUE: $20,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20,000 · OtherBENNETT CENTER: $20,000 · OtherDAUGHTERS OF DESTINY INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · OtherPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $50,000 · OtherPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIEN…+21 more: $212,250 · Other+21 moreST JUDE INC: $365,809 · Housing & ShelterST JUDE INC+2 more: $15,500 · Housing & ShelterNo Child Hungry Inc: $316,671 · Food & NutritionNo Child Hungry IncRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionRegional Food Bank of …+3 more: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 moreDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVERSI…Project Scientist Inc: $50,000 · EducationProject Scienti…PTA TEXAS CONGRESS Sonntag Elementary PTA: $27,500 · EducationPTA TEXAS CONGR…TRU PREP ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · EducationTRU PREP ACADEM…HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationHOWARD COMMUNIT…Pearl Foundation Inc: $19,750 · EducationPearl Foundatio…PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS: $18,000 · EducationPLANO SENIOR HI…BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC: $15,000 · EducationBARBERSHOP BOOK…EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $15,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL FIR…OPERATION GRADUATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $6,150 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'…TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEAMMATES…CHANGE OUR FUTURE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHANGE OU…PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $7,400 · Youth DevelopmentHuman Options Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS BLACK EXPO INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHome Makers of Hope Inc: $13,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LTD: $10,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsThe JTR Suitcase Fund Inc % Judy Rankin: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsWEST TEXAS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$507,550Housing & Shelter$381,309Food & Nutrition$366,671Education$251,400Youth Development$157,400Human Services$124,000Recreation & Sports$75,000

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 budgetST JUDE INC: $365,809 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNo Child Hungry Inc: $316,671 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Scientist Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA (GROUP RETURN): $45,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Options Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPTA TEXAS CONGRESS Sonntag Elementary PTA: $27,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRU PREP ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDALLAS ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPearl Foundation Inc: $19,750 over 2y, 15% of budgetPLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS: $18,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHOPE FARM INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS BLACK EXPO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKeep Cincinnati Beautiful Inc: $14,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHome Makers of Hope Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLUMEDIA MUSICWORKS INC: $11,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABLE FAITH INC: $11,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GRADUATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHANGE OUR FUTURE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASOS FOR OAK CLIFF: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWEST TEXAS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAGON KIM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $7,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMCCLURE ELEMENTARY PTO: $6,150 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationHillcrest FoundationThe Molina Healthcare…United Way of Metropo…The Moody FoundationAT&T FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Verizon FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…The Ayco Charitable F…Christian Community F…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX17.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Molina Healthcare Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Moody Foundation · AT&T Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Alachua Conservation Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 65 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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