Does Bloomin' Brands, Inc. support Israel?

We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Bloomin' Brands, Inc.. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.

Filed under: Fast food & restaurant chains · Companies that support Israel

Background

No documented Bloomin' Brands or Outback Steakhouse support for Israel was found, and the widely repeated idea that Outback once operated in Israel could not be substantiated. Bloomin' Brands reported 355 international franchised restaurants across 11 countries and Guam at the end of fiscal 2025; its franchising site lists current markets in Latin America, Asia, Australia and the Gulf states of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and lists its open development territories as Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the UAE, Turkey, Poland, the United Kingdom and others — Israel appears in neither list, and no Israeli Outback location, licensee or opening was found in any contemporaneous source. A neighbourhood pub in Zikhron Ya'akov trading as 'Outback' is an unaffiliated Israeli business that shares the name. The company's 10-K filings mention Israel only in a boilerplate risk factor about the global economic effects of 'the ongoing conflicts in Israel and Ukraine'. Its corporate PAC has made no contributions to pro-Israel committees, and no corporate foundation filings show Israel-linked grants.

Bloomin' Brands FY2025 Form 10-K (Israel mentioned only in the geopolitical risk factor) Bloomin' Brands global franchising — current and available international markets FEC — Bloomin' Brands, Inc. Political Action Committee (C00253153)

What we checked

• News & official statements — 2026-07-30
  Searched Bloomin' Brands, Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba's and Bonefish Grill in English and Hebrew for Israel donations, statements, franchises or boycott coverage. Nothing found: no Israeli locations past or present, no relief contribution, no public position on the conflict. The company's documented giving is domestic (hurricane relief, military-family programmes, local community fundraising).
• Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-30
  ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer searches for "Bloomin Brands", "Outback Steakhouse" and related names return no corporate private foundation or affiliated charity for the company; its giving runs through corporate partnerships rather than a filing foundation. No Israel-linked grants could therefore be identified in any 990 filing attributable to the company.
• SEC filings — 2026-07-30
  EDGAR full-text search of Bloomin' Brands filings (CIK 1546417) for "israel" returns six documents. Five are the FY2023-FY2025 10-Ks and annual reports, where the word appears once each in a risk factor on the global economic effects of "the ongoing conflicts in Israel and Ukraine"; the sixth is a Schedule 13G filed by Millennium Management, referring to its principal Israel A. Englander. No Israeli restaurants, franchisees, investments or contracts are disclosed.
• Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-30
  Bloomin' Brands, Inc. Political Action Committee (C00253153, Tampa FL) is active. Its Schedule B disbursements for the 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2026 two-year periods were screened for pro-Israel recipients (AIPAC-affiliated, NORPAC, Pro-Israel America, J Street and similar): no matches. The PAC reported no disbursements at all in the 2026 cycle. Any political money here is PAC money raised from employees, not corporate treasury support for a foreign cause.
• Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-30
  No Snopes, Reuters, AFP or Logically Facts item addresses a Bloomin' Brands or Outback Steakhouse claim about Israel, and neither the parent nor the brands appear on the BDS movement's target lists. The recurring social-media claim that Outback 'used to have branches in Israel' has no supporting source; the 'Outback' pub in Zikhron Ya'akov is an unrelated local business.

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Sources & citations

Record last updated: 2026-07-30

• Bloomin' Brands FY2025 Form 10-K (Israel mentioned only in the geopolitical risk factor) sec.gov
• Bloomin' Brands global franchising — current and available international markets franchise.bloominbrands.com
• FEC — Bloomin' Brands, Inc. Political Action Committee (C00253153) fec.gov