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The Kroger Co Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
253
Grants FY2025still arriving
32
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$34MHuman Services$5.8MPhilanthropy$5.1MCommunity Improvement$4.2MEducation$4.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.2MHealth$3.0MCrime & Legal$2.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 253 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
32
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
OLIVE CREST$80,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$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
FOOD GATHERERS$50,000
MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK$50,000
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 (FY19–25, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK: $20k → 14%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $30k → 19%JOSEPHINE COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20k → 18%HEAVEN SOUTH INC: $25k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $30k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC NATIONAL COMPASSION FUND LLC: $2.1M → 9%THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE: $25k → 20%HEAVEN SOUTH INC: $25k → 14%MUST MINISTRIES INC: $30k → 8%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC: $25k → 14%PEOPLE IN NEED INC OF DELAWARE COUNTY OHIO: $20k → 5%THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $33k → 20%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $20k → 13%SAMARITAS: $40k → 21%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC: $25k → 14%PEOPLE IN NEED INC OF DELAWARE COUNTY OHIO: $20k → 5%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $25k → 11%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $50k → 14%HEAVEN SOUTH INC: $25k → 14%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS: $562k → 17%INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE: $61k → 16%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $20k → 9%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $25k → 14%CARING FOR OTHER: $50k → 13%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $62k → 16%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $32k → 15%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 12%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $60k → 16%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 15%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - CINCINNATI: $70k → 16%STORE TO DOOR: $60k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $300k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $560k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500k → 14%COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIM ASSISTANCE: $100k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500k → 14%DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%NNEMAP FOOD PANTY: $30k → 15%WESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY: $21k → 15%MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $40k → 14%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $25k → 16%YWCA GREATER CINCINNATI: $25k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $25k → 16%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

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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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 434 repeat orgs$25M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

434 repeat relationships: 138 still active in FY2025, 296 since wound down; 106 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

434
1320

Total granted

$46M
$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+10%

Still filing today

69%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +27%
  • FF
    FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +30%
  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $885k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TK
    THE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE
    one grant, 2020 · $2.3M
  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.1M · revenue +29% · 54% of their budget
  • TA
    THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
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.

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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
2
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
Coralville Community Food Pantry

We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…

Food & Nutrition
5
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Nourishing Hope

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

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Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
8
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
9
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
10
Ozarks Food Harvest Inc

Ozarks food harvest's mission is to transform hunger into hope.

Food & Nutrition
11
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
12
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is The Scripps Howard Foundation. 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

825 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. 825 of the 1,870 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
131
Early backer (in before they grew)
811/825
Grantees still filing
493/825
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE: $2,312,226 · OtherTHE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTEUSO: $873,298 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANK INC: $842,391 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA: $800,000 · OtherFOOD LIFELINE: $776,339 · OtherTHE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Other+101 more: $14,697,201 · Other+101 moreTHE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE FOUNDATION: $9,000,433 · Food & NutritionTHE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO W…FREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,244,798 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK INCCONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER INC: $799,297 · Food & Nutrition+36 more: $4,379,588 · Food & Nutrition+36 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,680,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC: $2,075,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CENTE…WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS: $562,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S FOUNDA…URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC: $310,000 · Human Services+13 more: $1,102,500 · Human Services+13 moreThurgood Marshall College Fund: $1,350,000 · EducationUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $500,000 · EducationNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $270,445 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $125,000 · EducationSimmons College of Kentucky Inc: $123,500 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $121,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $100,000 · Education+5 more: $330,500 · EducationUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $1,484,743 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston: $280,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $190,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $302,500 · PhilanthropyLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $885,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION: $670,000 · Community ImprovementOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $345,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $105,000 · Community ImprovementCorporation for Findlay Market: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS INC: $1,000,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $187,500 · HealthOLIVE CREST: $167,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $152,320 · HealthEskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $140,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $125,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $120,098 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $84,000 · Health+2 more: $101,000 · Health
Other$21,301,455Food & Nutrition$15,424,116Human Services$6,729,500Education$2,920,945Philanthropy$2,457,243Community Improvement$2,355,000Health$2,077,418

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE FOUNDATION: $9,000,433 over 3y, 21% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,680,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC: $2,075,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $1,484,743 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $1,350,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,244,798 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $885,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER INC: $799,297 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION: $670,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS: $562,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $540,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $400,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $345,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBLOC MINISTRIES INC: $344,300 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC: $310,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSUNSHINE DIVISION INC: $305,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $280,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $270,445 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS: $265,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $260,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $260,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC: $260,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHispanic Heritage Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $240,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTRANSFAIR USA: $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC: $193,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding Children Everywhere Inc: $190,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $187,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $176,980 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE: $174,250 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $167,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $165,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $152,320 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $152,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $151,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 2.3% 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 Kroger Co Zero Hu…The Albertsons Compan…Feeding AmericaWashington Federal Fo…Northwest Harvest EmmFarmlink ProjectPuget Sound Energy Fo…Food LifelineEmployees Community F…The Woodforest Charit…Trailhead InstituteThe Molina Healthcare…
The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste FoundationOH201.9× 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 Waste Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Feeding America · Washington Federal Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · Farmlink Project · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Food Lifeline · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Trailhead Institute · The Molina Healthcare Charitable 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 Kroger Co Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kroger Co Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • National Center for Victims of Crime Inc: 10% of income from government
  • William Temple House: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
101report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Kroger Co Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kroger Co 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 1870 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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