Virginia · Private foundation
Nestle USA Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2020
- 107
- Itemized grants FY2020
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
67% of Nestle USA Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Arlington Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Nestle USA Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 64 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2020
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2020
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 92
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2020
- 24
- Total assets, FY2020
- $32M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Nestle USA Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 12 | $470k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $898k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 92 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meals on Wheels America | $350,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Student Conservation Association Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Arlington Food Assistance Center | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| 911 Day | $54,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of Greater Washington | $52,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Manufacturing Institute | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Food Lifeline | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nestle USA Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Wal-Mart Foundation · The Gap Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation · The Union Home Foundation Inc · Marni & Morris Propp II Family Foundation Inc · The Reinberger Foundation
How this is measured
About Nestle USA Foundation
- How much does Nestle USA Foundation give?
- Nestle USA Foundation reported 107 itemized grants totaling $1,204,130, out of $1,487,879 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 92 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Nestle USA Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Food & Nutrition (9%), Environment (3%).
- Who are Nestle USA Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Meals on Wheels America ($350k), The Student Conservation Association Inc ($150k), The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ($100k).
- Does Nestle USA Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nestle USA Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nestle USA Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Nestle USA Foundation based?
- Nestle USA Foundation is based in VA.
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