Hormel Foods Corporation Donations Grant

Hormel Foods Corporation is dedicated to making a positive impact through its charitable initiatives, primarily focused on food security, community support, and educational programming. The Hormel Foods Charitable Trust provides financial support to U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organizations that align with these giving pillars, ensuring access to nutritious and affordable meals while promoting sustainable practices. By emphasizing social responsibility, Hormel Foods aims to improve the quality of life in communities and address pressing social issues.

Background
At Hormel Foods, we’re not just inspired to make great food.
This means ensuring access to affordable, safe, nutritious and delicious foods with recognizable ingredients.
This is at the heart of our global impact work and the organizations we choose to support.
The Hormel Foods Charitable Trust was established to benefit various organizations and projects that create food security by expanding access to nutritious and affordable meals, support the communities where we have operations, and emphasize education. Since officially becoming a tax-exempt entity, the Charitable Trust has donated millions of dollars to support key areas of focus..
Giving Pillars
The Hormel Foods Charitable Trust supports organizations and causes that align with the following Giving Pillars:

• Food security

To be considered, requests must align with one or more of the following criteria. Alignment with the criteria does not guarantee that a donation request will be granted, but it does guarantee that your request will be reviewed and considered.
Work toward decreasing the food insecurity rate and/orProvide immediate food resources and relief to residents and/orExpand access to nutritious and affordable meals.
Community Support
Hormel Foods serves as a good corporate citizen and neighbor in the communities where we have operations.
To be considered, requests must align with one or more of the following criteria. Alignment with the criteria does not guarantee that a donation request will be granted, but it does guarantee that your request will be reviewed and considered.
Benefit/improve quality of life for residents and/orProvide residents a sense of belonging and/orImprove the health and wellbeing of residents.On occasion, non-profit organizations may request product donations for fundraising purposes. These requests will be considered for “in-kind” product donations on an individual basis.
Impact Programming
At Hormel Foods, we firmly believe that being a successful company means more than just delivering exceptional products to consumers.
To be considered, requests must align with one or more of the following criteria. Alignment with the criteria does not guarantee that a donation request will be granted, but it does guarantee that your request will be reviewed and considered.
Support DE&I and/orProtect the environment and/orSupport education or educational programming and/orProvide assistance, services, or benefits that address various social issues.

Eligibility

Only U.S.-based organizations classified as 501(c)(3) are eligible for financial support.To be considered, donation requests must align with one or more of the Giving Pillars detailed above.We strongly encourage 501(c)(3) organizations to request financial support for specific initiatives versus event sponsorships.For product donations, the company follows a process based on product availability and ease of donation. Products may also be available to charitable organizations to purchase at a level below retail price.

Ineligibility

We do not support political organizations and will not partner with any organization whose programs discriminate based on race/ethnicity, color, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital/parental status, pregnancy, childbirth or related conditions, religion, age, disability, genetic information, military service/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.