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The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation at a glance

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The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$27MFood & Nutrition$9.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.1MYouth Development$1.3MEducation$150kHealth$100kEmployment$50kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $950k
  • $250k+5 grants · $7.1M
$200,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC$5,001,314
FEEDING AMERICA$1,000,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO$500,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$300,000
THE LUNCHBOX FUND$250,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$200,000
NO KID HUNGRY$200,000
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL$150,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC$100,000
GROW PITTSBURGH$25,000
NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOUR CHILDREN: $25k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $500k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $500k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $250k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $250k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $202k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $200k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $31k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
VA
AR
NC
SC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39M · 13 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$39M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+10%

Still filing today

92%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $20M · revenue +215%
  • HI
    HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.3M · revenue ×15
  • Feeding America
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue +10%
  • CA
    CHILD AID
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -14%
  • RM
    Role Model Movement Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -78%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
5
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
6
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
7
Share Food Program

As the largest serving hunger-relief organization in the greater philadelphia region, share food program's mission is reducing regional food insecurity by providing nourishing food to a network of community-based partners and directly to…

Food & Nutrition
8
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
9
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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10
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Chicago Food Depository; the most unlike its peers is Council for Jewish Elderly. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $20,001,314 · InternationalRISE AGAINST HUNGER INCHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $6,350,000 · InternationalHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION+2 more: $200,000 · InternationalFeeding America: $4,900,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,150,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FO…GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $350,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $310,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,932,650 · Human ServicesTHE LUNCHBOX FUND: $1,200,000 · Human Services+2 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $750,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · Other+6 more: $190,000 · OtherTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $1,150,000 · Youth DevelopmentRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $150,065 · EducationCANCER BRIDGES: $60,000 · HealthFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health
International$26,551,314Food & Nutrition$6,710,000Human Services$3,172,650Other$2,340,000Youth Development$1,250,000Education$150,065Health$95,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $20,001,314 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $6,350,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetFeeding America: $4,900,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,932,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LUNCHBOX FUND: $1,200,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $1,150,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $350,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $150,065 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AID: $150,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGROW PITTSBURGH: $125,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES: $60,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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