Kentucky · Private foundation
Yum Brands Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $10M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,308,006
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 54
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Yum Brands Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $5.7M | 46% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $9.3M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $11M | 67% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $11M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $17M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $15M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc | $22,604,428 | 6 | 10% |
| Ashoka | $4,690,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Oneten Coalition Inc | $2,625,000 | 2 | 7% |
| The Giving Kitchen Initiative Inc | $2,515,000 | 3 | 21% |
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $2,280,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Hatch Inc | $2,125,485 | 2 | 85% |
| Dare to Care Inc | $2,002,477 | 6 | 1% |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | $1,999,999 | 4 | 0% |
| Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc | $1,880,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Fund for the Arts Inc | $1,420,000 | 6 | 8% |
Show all 123 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Yum Brands Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
How this is measured
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About Yum Brands Foundation Inc
- How much does Yum Brands Foundation Inc give?
- Yum Brands Foundation Inc reported 41 grants totaling $10,343,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Yum Brands Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), International (17%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Yum Brands Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc ($23M), Ashoka ($4.7M), Oneten Coalition Inc ($2.6M).
- Does Yum Brands Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yum Brands Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Yum Brands Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
- Where is Yum Brands Foundation Inc based?
- Yum Brands Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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