· Private foundation
Yum Brands Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $950k
- $250k+8 grants · $9.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAF America | $4,308,006 |
| University of Louisville Foundation | $1,649,000 |
| Emergency Assistance Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| American Red Cross | $750,000 |
| The Giving Kitchen Initiative Inc | $530,000 |
| Dare to Care | $400,000 |
| American Online Giving Foundation | $323,035 |
| Conservation International Foundation | $250,000 |
| Fund for the Arts | $150,000 |
| Evolve502 INC | $125,000 |
| Metro United Way | $125,000 |
| ProLiteracy Worldwide Inc | $119,780 |
| Adventurous Minds Produce Extraordinary Dreams Inc | $100,000 |
| Initiative for Competitive Inner City | $100,000 |
| OneTen Coalition Inc | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $24.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Yum Brands Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $714k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +42%
- HIHATCH INC2× · 2021–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +521% · 85% of their budget
- DTDARE TO CARE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +9%
Funded once
- OOneTenone grant, 2023 · $1.1M
- HEHatch Enterpriseone grant, 2024 · $700k
- WEWest End Opportunity Partnershipone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -94%
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.
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.
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The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
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How this is measured
119 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. 119 of the 177 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
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- Who funds ONETEN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HATCH INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds EVOLVE502 INC ↗
- Who funds Simmons College of Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds TACO BELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds West End Opportunity Partnership ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Yum Brands Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yum Brands Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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