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KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN FOUNDATION INC

EIN 61-1337601 LOUISVILLE, KY

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Revenue 2025
$5,842,535
Expenses 2025
$7,495,986

Program services were 96.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B82
Classification
1000
Street
1900 COLONEL SANDERS LN

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The KFC Foundation fulfills its mission through programs that provide scholarships and educational support, hardship assistance during times of crisis, personal development opportunities, and investments that strengthen local communities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The KFC Foundation supports, empowers, and serves joy to KFC restaurant employees and communities through education accessibility, financial and crisis assistance, personal development, and community giving programs that create meaningful opportunities and lasting impact.

  • Scholarship Program: This program provides KFC U.S. restaurant employees with the opportunity to apply for scholarships of up to $20,000 to support their educational dreams at the accredited two-year or four-year college, trade school, or graduate program of their choice. Team members may reapply annually and can receive scholarship funding multiple times throughout their educational journey. In 2025, the program awarded scholarships to 338 recipients and provided tuition assistance to 211 students attending Western Governors University.

    Expenses $6,059,862 · Grants $4,539,785

  • Hardship Assistance Program: This crisis assistance program is available to KFC U.S. restaurant employees who have been directly impacted by a severe hardship, crisis, or catastrophic incident that was beyond their control. The purpose of the program is to provide temporary, limited financial relief. While money can't eliminate the sorrow, it can eliminate the added stress that often accompanies it. In 2025, the program provided relief for 151 team members.

    Expenses $340,221 · Grants $340,221

  • Kentucky Fried Wishes: KFC restaurant employees can nominate their local 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for a $10,000 capacity building grant from the KFC Foundation. In 2025, the KFC Foundation granted 60 Kentucky Fried Wishes grants.

    Expenses $635,000 · Grants $635,000

  • Hardship Assistance Program: This crisis assistance program is available to KFC U.S. restaurant employees who have been directly impacted by a severe hardship, crisis, or catastrophic incident that was beyond their control. The purpose of the program is to provide temporary, limited financial relief. While money can't eliminate the sorrow, it can eliminate the added stress that often accompanies it. In 2025, the program provided relief for 151 team members. Savings Match Program: This financial wellness program supports KFC U.S. restaurant employees in building savings habits and improving financial stability. Participants contribute weekly and are matched by the KFC Foundation after a six-month savings period. The program encourages positive financial behaviors, reduces financial stress, and helps employees build emergency savings through education and incentive-based support. Mental Health Program: This program provides KFC U.S. restaurant employees with access to confidential, online counseling through BetterHelp. Eligible team members and their dependents receive six therapy sessions with licensed providers for personal and work-related challenges. In 2025, the program provided access to mental health services for 55 team members, resulting in 165 therapy sessions being utilized.

    Expenses $194,380 · Grants $60,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Emma Horn

    SECRETARY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $173,011
    From this org
    $145,120
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,891
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,882
    Bonus
    $11,092
    Other
    $146
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,891
    Filer's total
    $173,011

  • Matt Hansen

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Orton

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Adams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Clinton Lewis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Basinger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Sherman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bill Byrd

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heather Becker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lana Swearingen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thuthuka Nxumalo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,842,535
    Expenses
    $7,495,986
    Contributions
    $5,456,504
    Grants paid
    $5,575,006
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,895,190
    Expenses
    $6,492,445
    Contributions
    $6,785,060
    Grants paid
    $4,494,520
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,382,876
    Expenses
    $3,911,469
    Contributions
    $5,309,516
    Grants paid
    $2,896,029

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,045,887
    Expenses
    $2,285,608
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,394,233

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,426,337
    Expenses
    $2,639,806
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,322,528

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,078,321
    Expenses
    $2,230,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,065,626

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,059,978
    Expenses
    $1,752,782
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,021,553

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,830,834
    Expenses
    $1,799,411
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,540,314

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,084,484
    Expenses
    $1,769,344
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,437,421

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.