Minnesota · Private foundation
Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 128
- Grants FY2025
- 120
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $116,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 108 to 161
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 24
- Total assets, FY2025
- $80k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 124 | $1.5M | 40% |
| FY2024 | 120 | $1.3M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 161 | $2.2M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 121 | $2.1M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 108 | $1.8M | 54% |
| FY2020 | 123 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Merit Scholarship Corporation | $610,487 | 6 | 0% |
| Austin Aspires Inc | $464,967 | 5 | 22% |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $406,764 | 5 | 0% |
| The Conscious Alliance | $404,600 | 6 | 2% |
| Feeding America | $164,347 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Mower County Inc | $155,616 | 5 | 3% |
| American Junior Golf Association Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $132,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Riverland Community College Foundation | $128,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Thielen Foundation Inc | $127,500 | 6 | 3% |
Show all 269 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 121 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Mower County Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Rochester Area Foundation · Geo A Hormel Testamentary Trust · C K Blandin Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic
How this is measured
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About Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust
- How much does Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust give?
- Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust reported 128 grants totaling $1,585,611 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 108 and 161 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (30%), Education (23%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: National Merit Scholarship Corporation ($610k), Austin Aspires Inc ($465k), Iowa State University Foundation ($407k).
- Does Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Mower County Inc, Land O'Lakes Foundation, Rochester Area Foundation.
- Where is Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust based?
- Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust is based in MN.
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