Does Five Guys support Israel?

We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Five Guys. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.

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

Background

No recorded donations to or support for Israel by Five Guys have been found, and the company has no verified presence in Israel. Five Guys Enterprises is the family-controlled burger chain founded by the Murrell family in Virginia; it is private, so there are no SEC filings, and searches found no corporate PAC and no US foundation in its name. Its own franchising materials say the brand operates in 29 countries and list its open development markets across Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific — Oman, Turkey, Thailand, Japan and the Philippines among them — with Israel appearing nowhere as a market, a development target or an existing location. One Israeli consumer-news report on the February 2025 opening of the Big Fashion Galilot mall near Tel Aviv listed "a branch of the American burger chain Five Guys" among the complex's thirty food tenants, but no other Israeli outlet, no company announcement and no restaurant listing corroborates it, and Israeli diners were still publicly petitioning Five Guys to open its first branch in the country, so we treat that single mention as unconfirmed. Because there is nothing to weigh, this page reports no records rather than a yes or no — and our records are a floor, not a ceiling.

Five Guys — franchise markets ICE (Big Fashion Galilot opening, February 2025) Atzuma — public petition for Five Guys to open in Israel Hebrew Wikipedia — Five Guys

What we checked

• News & official statements — 2026-07-30
• Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-30
  No Five Guys corporate foundation appears in the IRS exempt-organization data (the ProPublica organisation search returned no matching Five Guys entity), so there is no 990 grant list in which Israel-linked grantees could appear.
• SEC filings — 2026-07-30
  Five Guys Enterprises is privately held and files nothing with the SEC — it has no CIK, so no filings could disclose Israeli subsidiaries, investments or contracts.
• Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-30
  FEC committee search for "Five Guys" returns no committees; the company has no PAC, so no political disbursements to pro-Israel committees could exist.
• Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-30
  Boycott-status pages and social posts asking whether Five Guys supports Israel offer no documentation; the BDS movement does not name Five Guys as a target, and no fact check by Snopes, Reuters or AFP addresses the brand.
• usaspending — 2026-09-24
  Queried 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 — 2026-09-24
  Searched 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 — 2026-09-24
  Checked 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 — 2026-09-24
  Searched 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 — 2026-09-24
  Searched 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.

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Sources & citations

Record last updated: 2026-09-24

• Five Guys — franchise markets fiveguys.com
• ICE (Big Fashion Galilot opening, February 2025) ice.co.il
• Atzuma — public petition for Five Guys to open in Israel atzuma.co.il
• Hebrew Wikipedia — Five Guys he.wikipedia.org