How much did THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

brothers sisterscarpentertownship foodresearchclarknorthwest foodsusan komen

2020

peoplessoc vincentway junctionwingsdecaturroadrunner foodfdtn

2021

childhoodwoodlands religiousvalley seniorbayjacobs cushmancushman sandiego food

2022

paul cincinnatitogethermaplehillsspecialbank northeastconservation

2023

lexingtonhighlandneighborsbackpack brigadelikeartsdistribution

2024

extended handsfarmers marketcupboardhispanicblack girlgirl venturesconference

2025

hunger reliefchrisunion gospelmetropolitan inter-faithmemphisharvest foodbankmaple

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 253 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k116 grants · $465k
$10k–50k114 grants · $2.1M
$50k–250k21 grants · $1.5M
$250k+2 grants · $750k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$116M

Total assets

Largest grants

AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$500,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$250,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY$150,000
US UNITED INC$120,000
GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA$100,000
US HUNGER$95,000
KANSAS FOOD BANK WAREHOUSE INC$85,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$80,000
OLIVE CREST$80,000
CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER$75,684
HOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC$75,000
THE COMMON MARKET GEORGIA INC$69,700
FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA$57,500
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK$50,000
MID-OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE$50,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$44M · 416 repeat orgs$26M to everyone else

416 repeat relationships — 128 still active in FY2025, 288 since wound down; 117 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

416

1374

Total granted

$44M

$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

Still filing today

60%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

AN
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS
5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +9%
TM
THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND
2× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +294%
FF
FREESTORE FOODBANK
5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +61%

Funded once

NC
NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC NATIONAL COMPASSION FUND LLC
one grant, 2022 · $2.1M
TK
THE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE
one grant, 2020 · $1.3M
TA
THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $1.0M

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Food for People Inc

Food for people is a designated food bank committed to providing food for those in need.

Food & Nutrition

The Food Bank for Central

Hunger relief network sharing millions of pounds of nutritious food with thousands of missourians.

Food & Nutrition

Coralville Community Food Pantry

The Coralville Community Food Pantry is an anti-hunger nonprofit organization providing critical and innovative food assistance services to the greater Coralville community.

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank of Northwest

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition

Community Food Bank Inc

We change lives in the communities we serve by feeding the hungry today and building a healthy, hunger-free tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition

Central California Food Bank

Distribute food to the hungry in fresno, madera, tulare, kern and kings county.

Food & Nutrition

Missoula Food Bank & Community Center

We lead the movement to end hunger through activism, volunteerism and healthy food for all. we nourish community.

Food & Nutrition

Rainier Valley Food Bank

Distributing donated and purchased food to low-income households and homeless individuals.

Unclassified

Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition

Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc

Together, we nourish our neighbors and improve their lives one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank of Iowa

We provide food for iowa children, families, and seniors to lead full and active lives, strengthening the communities where they live.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feast Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westminster University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%3/779

the rest of the field

6,875/73,527

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

731 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

259

Early backer (in before they grew)

715/731

Grantees still filing

616/731

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$38,689,247Food & Nutrition$16,809,438Human Services$5,392,991Education$3,537,678Health$2,046,800Community Improvement$1,898,800Philanthropy$1,316,237

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Kroger Co Zero Hunger ZeroOH195.4× affinity154 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero · Feeding America · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Farmlink Project · Northwest Harvest Emm · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Employees of Community Fund · The Molina Healthcare Charitable Foundation · Trailhead Institute · Food Lifeline

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CONNECT CLERMONT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 811705040 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CONNECT CLERMONT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 64% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Kroger Co Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kroger Co Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

731 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Kroger Co Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

731 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Kroger Co Foundation?

More from the funding graph