Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation primarily funds employee giving and corporate community impact programs, channeling large matching and pooled gifts through intermediaries and corporate-affiliated foundations. Beyond matching, it makes targeted investments in tech-for-good and social innovation intermediaries that support startups, accelerators and issue-focused initiatives (e.g., anti–modern slavery). Its granting is concentrated and strategic rather than broadly distributed, with repeat multi-million dollar grants to a small set of partners.
Focus Areas
Employee matching and workplace giving programs administered through community foundationsCommunity impact and pooled corporate grantmaking via donor-advised/community foundationsTech-for-good accelerators and capacity support for social venture builders (e.g., Fast Forward)Corporate foundation general operating support and internal HPE program fundingTargeted support for innovation-driven responses to human trafficking/modern slavery (e.g., MIT Solve grants)
Who They Fund
survivors of modern slavery / trafficking
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation’s largest recent grants are the annual employee matching and community impact payments routed through American Online Giving Foundation, including $4,260,000 in 2025 and $4,220,000 in 2024. That pattern sets the tone for the funder: much of its giving supports workplace-giving infrastructure, while a second tier of grants backs corporate community partners and a smaller set of innovation intermediaries. The foundation also makes repeated grants to organizations that connect HPE employees with tech-centered social impact work. Fast Forward received $1,588,500 in 2025 for employee engagement programs and accelerator programming, after a $1,503,830 general operating grant in 2024. MIT Solve received $1,030,000 in 2025 to support its work with survivors of modern slavery. These awards show a mix of pooled giving, operating support, and targeted program funding. Other grants point to a practical, partner-driven approach. The foundation funded the HPE Foundation’s own internal operations, supported disaster response through the American National Red Cross, and gave to LabStart for climate programming. Its grantmaking is concentrated rather than broad, with large awards recurring across a limited set of intermediaries and mission-aligned nonprofits.
What Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation Funds
Employee giving infrastructure is a major theme. The foundation awarded $4,260,000 in 2025 to American Online Giving Foundation for employee matching program and community impact grants, and $2,313,000 in 2025 to Silicon Valley Community Foundation for the same purpose. Those grants show that workplace-giving administration is a core channel. Technology and startup support appears through intermediaries and accelerators. Fast Forward received $1,588,500 in 2025 in support of employee engagement programs and accelerator programming, while Vilcap Inc. received $235,000 in 2024 for general operating expenses. The foundation also backed LabStart with $150,000 in 2024 for general operating expenses. Two issue areas appear in the recent grants list: climate and modern slavery. LabStart received $75,000 in 2025 for climate programming, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Solve) received $1,030,000 in 2025 to support its work to support survivors of modern slavery.
How Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$8.5M
Total Assets
$103.3M
Total Revenue
$3.7M
Total Expenses
$9.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $33K and $872K, with a median of $175K.
25th Percentile
$33K
Median
$175K
75th Percentile
$872K
Geographic Reach
National8 states funded
About 18% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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