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School Breakfast Grants (Kellogg Company Partnership)

Action for Healthy Kids

Funding Amount

Not stated

Deadline

Deadline not published

Grant Type

Foundation

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Cycle
Annual
Tracked since
April 2026

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Overview

Geographic Scope: Nationwide

Focus Areas:

  • Pilot or expand National School Breakfast Programs
  • Increase breakfast access for more students
  • Provide nutritious start to school day
  • Implement alternative breakfast models

Program Scale:

  • 40 school districts funded
  • More than 175 schools in 2017-2018
  • Served more than 23 million new breakfasts
  • Benefited 153,770 hungry or undernourished students
  • Average breakfast participation increase: 39%

What They Fund:

  • Equipment for breakfast programs
  • Program implementation costs
  • Alternative breakfast models:
    • Breakfast in the classroom
    • Grab 'n go breakfast

Program Rationale:

  • Less than half (48%) of students participating in National School Lunch Program also participated in school breakfast (2016)
  • 30.4 million lunch participants vs. 14.7 million breakfast participants
  • Research shows children with breakfast do better in school, improved metabolism, energy, and focus

Additional Support: AFHK provides technical assistance to help schools overcome barriers to breakfast participation

Kellogg's Global Initiative: "Breakfasts for Better Days" launched 2013

  • Fighting hunger and feeding potential globally
  • To date: 1.9 billion servings of cereal and snacks provided

What Action for Healthy Kids actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990, 2025

Grants in 2025
206
Total given
$12.16M
Median grant
$53K
Range
$5,083–$212K
  • By dollars: Texas 8%, Michigan 8%, New York 8%. Top recipient cities: Detroit, MI; Nevada City, CA; Cleveland, GA.
  • 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.

Example grants

  • White County School District · Cleveland, GA

    School grant

    $212K

  • Ashdown School District 31 · Ashdown, AR

    School grant

    $150K

  • Colville School District 115 · Colville, WA

    School grant

    $150K

  • Gregory School District 26 - 4 · Gregory, SD

    School grant

    $150K

  • Carroll Consolidated School Corporation · Flora, IN

    School grant

    $150K

IRS Form 990, 2025. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

  • K-12 schools
  • Nutrition
  • Food security
  • School health

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