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Does El Pollo Loco support Israel?
El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.
We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from El Pollo Loco. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.
Filed under: Fast food & restaurant chains · Companies that support Israel
Background
No link of any kind between El Pollo Loco and Israel was found. The Costa Mesa chain operates roughly 500 restaurants, all in the western and southwestern United States, with no international franchise programme and therefore no Israeli presence or supplier relationship. Its SEC filings mention Israel only as one line in the country tables of the underwriting agreements filed with its 2014 share offerings — standard securities selling restrictions. El Pollo Loco Charities is a small foundation funding local community and youth causes in Southern California, the company operates no political action committee, and it has issued no statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The chain is absent from BDS target lists and from fact-checker coverage; the occasional social-media question about it is generic brand-list speculation.
SEC EDGAR — El Pollo Loco Holdings underwriting agreement (EX-1.1, 2014) with country selling-restriction table ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer — El Pollo Loco Charities (EIN 80-0114109)
What we checked
- News & official statements — 2026-07-30
- Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-30
- SEC filings — 2026-07-30
- Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-30OpenFEC committee search for "El Pollo Loco" returns no registered or affiliated committee. The company operates no corporate PAC and therefore made no disbursements to pro-Israel or other political committees.
- Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-30No Snopes, Reuters, AFP or Logically Facts item concerns El Pollo Loco and Israel, and the chain does not appear on BDS movement target lists or on consumer boycott lists. The absence of any claim to check is itself consistent with the absence of records.
- usaspending — 2026-09-24Queried the USAspending.gov award API on 2026-09-24 for US federal contracts, grants and other awards to this company whose award text mentions Israel. It returned no awards.
- lobbying — 2026-09-24Searched the US Lobbying Disclosure Act database at lda.gov on 2026-09-24 for filings naming this company as the client whose reported lobbying issues mention Israel. No filings matched.
- ohchr — 2026-09-24Checked the UN OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, report A/HRC/60/19, on 2026-09-24. This company is not listed in it.
- whoprofits — 2026-09-24Searched the Who Profits company index on 2026-09-24 — the research centre that documents corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation. This company has no profile there.
- hebrew-arabic-press — 2026-09-24Searched Hebrew and Arabic news for this company on 2026-09-24 via Google News and Bing News. No headline mentioned a donation, aid, the war, an investment, an acquisition or a boycott.
Frequently asked questions
Did El Pollo Loco donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
No records found. We searched 10 public source types — news and official statements, nonprofit tax filings, SEC filings, and federal election records — and found no donations from El Pollo Loco. The dated search log on this page shows exactly where we looked.
Where does this information come from?
Every record on this page links to its source — news reports, official company statements, tax filings, or government records. 2 distinct sources are cited for El Pollo Loco. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-24