2025 Annual Report

We held our inaugural Burrow’s Tiger Tee Off at TopGolf Baton Rouge, raising more than $550,000 for our mission. Presented by Raising Cane’s, the event featured an appearance by Joe, players and coaches from the 2019 LSU National Championship team, and Raising Cane’s founder, Todd Graves.

Our third Golf Invitational in Cincinnati raised more than $1.1 million, featuring guest speakers such as ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, Cincinnati Bengals Head Coach Zac Taylor, FOX News Anchor Bill Hemmer, and former Bengals players Boomer Esiason, Cris Collinsworth, and Kay Adams. The event concluded with its annual after-party.

In partnership with Hocking College, La Soupe, Bellisio Foods, the Wassertrom Comapny, and several other partners, we launched the 740 Rescue Kitchen at Hocking College – an initiative focused on reducing food waste while providing free, nutritious meals to those in need. Since then, the 740 Rescue Kitchen has provided 23,717 meals to families in need and eliminated 42,943 pounds in food waste.

In partnership with Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health, we launched the Burrow Blueprint: bringing primary care behavioral health education and training resources to providers to help them confidently address student mental health needs. We celebrated together at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital with donors, supporters, and partners.

Joe joined Kroger Health President Colleen Lindholz on stage at the Children’s Health Alliance’s (CHA) 30th Menu of Hope luncheon in Columbus, sharing our commitment to fighting food insecurity while recognizing CHA’s decades of work ensuring children have access to nutritious meals.

In Baton Rouge, we helped local students get ready for the upcoming school year by distributing 2,000 school supply bags filled with essentials from crayons to notebooks and an exclusive JBF backpack. Volunteers from local Baton Rouge schools came to help stuff the bags. Students also got to participate in football drills at Elite Training Academy and meet with local community support agencies from the Baton Rouge area.

In Cincinnati, we partnered with La Soupe Cincinnati to provide families with fresh soup and bags of nutritious goods to start the year off strong.

The Joe Burrow Foundation largely supported the launch of a pilot rescue kitchen run by Three O’clock Project in Baton Rouge. With JBF’s early investment and belief in the mission, the kitchen successfully produced 31,776 individual meals in 2025. Each of these meals represent food redirected into nutritious meals for individuals and families in need. This pilot year proved the demand for and the viability of a dedicated Rescue Kitchen model in Baton Rouge, laying the groundwork for long-term, scalable impact.

In 2026, the goal is to double meal production while simultaneously developing a permanent commercial kitchen that will house the 225 Rescue Kitchen located at 1440 Government St., in the heart of Baton Rouge. This facility will allow for increased efficiency, expanded rescue capacity, and sustained community impact for years to come.

For the third year, we hosted our annual Dine for Nine event on September 9, partnering with local restaurants in Baton Rouge, Cincinnati, and Athens who committed to 9% of proceeds to go back to the Foundation’s programming. Dine for Nine raised approximately $25,000 with a total of 75 restaurants participating.

Over the holiday season, we launched our Do Good t-shirts in partnership with Cincy Shirts, with proceeds going back to the Foundation’s programming. We are excited to launch more merchandise in 2026. Follow us on social media to be on the lookout for t-shirt drops!