Wingstop Charities
Dallas, TX · EIN 81-2579902. Reported 56 grants totalling $1,731,430 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Wingstop Charities, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 5% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $365,809. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Inc | Dallas, TX | $365,809 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| No Child Hungry | Apopka, FL | $316,671 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Depaul University | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Perot Museum of Nature and Science | Dallas, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Scientist | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Special Olympics Texas Inc | San Antonio, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | Atlanta, GA | $45,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Duval Tigers Youth Sports Association | Jacksonville, FL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Human Options Inc | Irvine, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| PTA Texas Congress | Austin, TX | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bennett Center | Portsmouth, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Musuem of Brownsville Inc | Brownsville, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dallas Secondary Educational Academy | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Daughters of Destiny International Inc | Miami Gardens, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hearts Full of Grace Inc | Virginia Bch, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hearts of Rescue | Spring, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Howard Community College Educational Foundation Inc | Columbia, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Industrial Isd Track and Field | Vanderbilt, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Morse High School | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Texas Food Bank | Plano, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teammates Mentoring Program | Lincoln, NE | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tru Prep Academy Inc | Pembroke Pines, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Plano Senior High School Band Boosters | Plano, TX | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jeannas Ifeed | Virginia Bch, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jtr Suitcase Fund Inc | Lubbock, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oakleaf High School | Orange Park, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Black Expo Inc | Houston, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Home Makers of Hope Inc | Valrico, FL | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Luke Messick Futbol Charities Inc | Hampton, VA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Advantage Program | York, PA | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lumedia Musicworks Inc | Dallas, TX | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Able Faith Inc | Allen, TX | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alachua Conservation Trust Incorporated | Gainesville, FL | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Austin Street Center | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Change Our Future Foundation | Bala Cynwyd, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cisd Early Childhood School | Celina, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Citizens Learning and Educating About Neighborhood | Norfolk, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dragon Kim Foundation | Irvine, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pasos for Oak Cliff | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| West Texas Youth Development Inc | Midland, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pearl Foundation Inc | Columbia, MD | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Care Education Partners Nfp | Chicago, IL | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Christian Community Action | Lewisville, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Allentown Rescue Mission Inc | Allentown, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pace Center for Girls Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $7,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs Inc | Louisville, KY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| All Saints Catholic School | Dallas, TX | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Walther Lutheran High School Association Inc | Melrose Park, IL | $6,350 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mcclure Elementary PTO | Mckinney, TX | $6,150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lehigh Valley Inc | Allentown, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
2 of 54 (4%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Genesis Women's Shelter
SUPPORT FOR YOUTH BASED PROGRAMS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 42 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | $10,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 41 | $693,650 | $12,500 |
| 2024 | 14 | $1,027,780 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
42% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Wingstop Charities's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2801 N Central Expressway, Dallas, TX, 75204.
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