Eleanor Crook Foundation

About Eleanor Crook Foundation

A defining feature of Eleanor Crook Foundation’s giving is its repeated support for malnutrition advocacy and systems change, with large grants to organizations working on policy, financing, and implementation across multiple countries. In 2025, the foundation gave $1,614,349 to Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc for work spanning Cote d'Ivoire scoping, global malnutrition finance reform, Ghana, and Uganda maternal micronutrient supplementation. It also made two consecutive $1,179,410 grants to the United Nations Foundation for congressional malnutrition advocacy support, showing a sustained emphasis on policy engagement alongside program delivery. The foundation’s grants point to a clear strategy: back organizations that can move evidence into practice for child malnutrition, maternal nutrition, and wasting treatment. Its recent support includes research, coalition work, guideline uptake, and operational support for partners active in Africa, South Asia, the UK, and the US. Recipients range from large multilateral-adjacent intermediaries to implementation organizations and research institutions. Several grants are tied to specific country efforts, while others support broader advocacy or scale-up platforms. That mix suggests a funder focused less on one-off project funding and more on coordinated efforts to expand proven nutrition interventions across systems and geographies.

What Eleanor Crook Foundation Funds

In advocacy and policy work, Eleanor Crook Foundation backed the United Nations Foundation with $1,179,410 in 2025 for congressional malnutrition advocacy support. It also gave $350,000 to The Global Fund for Women Inc for MMS advocacy support, linking maternal nutrition with policy engagement. For guideline uptake and wasting response, the foundation gave $794,558 to Action Against Hunger in 2025 for weight gain analysis, Uganda wasting reform, Nepal wasting prevention, Nepal acute malnutrition, and accelerating uptake of new wasting guidelines. That grant shows a focus on translating evidence into country-level practice. The foundation also supports research and implementation platforms. It gave $750,000 each in 2024 and 2025 to Alima USA the Alliance for International Medical Action for malnutrition intervention research in Nigeria, and $742,542 to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for community management of at-risk mothers and infants. It also funded Dimagi with $250,000 for kangaroo mother care support.

How Eleanor Crook Foundation Gives