Ohio · Nonprofit
THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION
THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,956 to it, the largest being BEYOND BORDERS FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $111M
What The Kroger Co Foundation does
Program
Grants awarded to support causes and programs that provide meals for families struggling with hunger or improve access to fresh, healthy food in local communities. Grants also support health and nutrition programs, youth development and education, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and local grassroots organizations.
$5,509,359 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $116M to $127M (+9%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Patty Leesemann
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION?
- THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,956 to it, the largest being BEYOND BORDERS FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,956 in grants to THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION?
- BEYOND BORDERS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE KROGER CO FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing