El Pollo Loco Charities

Analysis

El Pollo Loco Charities is a registered charity in United States, based in Costa Mesa, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2004, 22 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, El Pollo Loco Charities reported income of $132k and spending of $193k, spending 146% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $234k to $132k (-44%), an average of -25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 103%. Over the whole period it spent 49% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, El Pollo Loco Charities sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Friends of Nishmas Yisroel Inc ($132k), Westlake High School Football Boosters Club Inc ($132k) and German School Campus Inc ($132k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.0% of the total. It paid $5,101 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $526k against liabilities of $24k, net assets of $502k.