Does Tim Hortons support Israel?

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

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

Background

No recorded donations to or support for Israel by Tim Hortons have been found. Tim Hortons is the Canadian coffee-and-doughnut brand of Restaurant Brands International, and it has never opened in Israel: the countries it lists for its roughly 6,000 restaurants — Canada, the United States, Mexico, Panama, Spain, Andorra, the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Pakistan and the Gulf states — do not include Israel, and its Middle East master franchisee, the Dubai-based Apparel Group (AG Café), develops the brand in the Gulf, not in Israel. Tim Hortons appears on consumer boycott lists purely by association: the October 2023 free meals for Israeli soldiers were given by the Israeli franchisee of its sister brand Burger King, and no Israel-related donation, statement, investment or contract by Tim Hortons itself, by its Tim Horton Children's Foundation, or by parent RBI has been documented. RBI's only public comments on the war concern lost sales in boycott-affected markets.

Wikipedia — Tim Hortons (countries of operation) Gulf News (Apparel Group / AG Café, Middle East master franchisee) Newsweek (Burger King Israel franchisee meals) Reynolds Center (RBI CEO on boycott impact)

What we checked

• News & official statements — 2026-07-30
• Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-30
  Tim Horton Children's Foundation Inc. (EIN 31-1681440) and Tim Horton Children's Foundation US Inc. (EIN 31-1681446) fund summer camps for children in Canada and the United States; no Israel-linked grantees identified.
• SEC filings — 2026-07-30
  Tim Hortons is not a separate SEC filer; disclosures fall under Restaurant Brands International (CIK 1618756), whose "israel" full-text hits are subsidiary-list exhibits and shareholder Schedule 13D/A attachments, none of them Tim Hortons-related.
• Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-30
  FEC committee search returns no Tim Hortons committee, and none for parent Restaurant Brands International; no corporate PAC exists through which political money could be traced.
• Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-30
  Boycott guides and app listings that include Tim Hortons cite only its corporate parent's link to Burger King's Israeli franchisee; the BDS movement does not name Tim Hortons as an official target, and no fact check documents Israel-related giving by the brand.
• usaspending — 2026-09-25
  Queried the USAspending.gov award API on 2026-09-25 for US federal contracts, grants and other awards to this company whose award text mentions Israel. It returned no awards.
• lobbying — 2026-09-25
  Searched the US Lobbying Disclosure Act database at lda.gov on 2026-09-25 for filings naming this company as the client whose reported lobbying issues mention Israel. No filings matched.
• ohchr — 2026-09-25
  Checked the UN OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, report A/HRC/60/19, on 2026-09-25. This company is not listed in it.
• whoprofits — 2026-09-25
  Searched the Who Profits company index on 2026-09-25 — the research centre that documents corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation. This company has no profile there.

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Sources & citations

Record last updated: 2026-09-25

• Wikipedia — Tim Hortons (countries of operation) en.wikipedia.org
• Gulf News (Apparel Group / AG Café, Middle East master franchisee) gulfnews.com
• Newsweek (Burger King Israel franchisee meals) newsweek.com
• Reynolds Center (RBI CEO on boycott impact) businessjournalism.org