Does Chipotle donate to fundraisers?

Food companies that do donate

Our directory lists 49 food companies with a published donation program. Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar (APPLE AMERICAN GROUP), Benihana and Bob's Red Mill are among them.

Those food companies are listed further down this page, with what each one gives and how much notice each one asks for.

How to ask a company with no published program

We found no company-wide donation program for Chipotle at our last check, which is not the same thing as a refusal. Small community donations at national chains are often handled by individual locations, so the local route is the one to try, and it works differently from a corporate application.

• Ask a local store or franchise manager directly. National chains often leave small community donations to individual locations even where there is no company-wide program, so an in-person ask is a different route from a corporate request.
• Check Chipotle's own website for a giving or community page. Programs change and are not always announced — our directory records what we found at the last check, not what is true today.
• Give as much notice as you can. Programs that do publish requirements commonly ask for several weeks, and a late request is refused on timing alone regardless of the cause.
• Ask a Food company that does publish a program — 49 companies in our directory do.

When to ask

The food companies in our directory that do publish a program state lead times of 4 weeks and 6 weeks — a local ask has no published deadline of its own, so use those as the guide.

Across more than 25,000 fundraising events in our own records over fifteen years, March, April and May are the busiest months for fundraisers, October is the next busiest, and July and December are the quietest.

Work backwards from your event date rather than forwards from today, and if your event falls in the spring peak, ask earlier than those lead times rather than later.

Common questions

Why is no donation program listed for Chipotle?

Ultimate Donations records what a company publishes about donation requests, and at our last check we found no published program for Chipotle. That is a record of what we found, not a statement from Chipotle: programs start, change and end, and they are not always announced.

Can we still ask Chipotle for a donation?

Nothing recorded here says Chipotle turns down donation requests — only that we found no company-wide program. National chains often leave small community donations to individual locations, so a local store or franchise manager is a different route from a corporate request, and it is the one worth trying when no program is published.

Which Food companies donate to fundraisers instead of Chipotle?

Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar (APPLE AMERICAN GROUP), Benihana, Bob's Red Mill, Bonefish Grill, Brinker International, Cabot Cheese. Each one has a donation program recorded in our directory, with what it gives and how much notice it asks for.