Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation Inc

Analysis

Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Louisville, KY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation Inc reported income of $6.9m and spending of $6.5m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.1m to $6.9m (+232%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation Inc sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within KY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dutchess Day School ($6.9m), Buncombe County Partnership for Children Inc ($6.9m) and Oaks Education Association ($6.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $270k (4.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $223k. At year end it held assets of $10.6m against liabilities of $417k, net assets of $10.2m.