Better Together – The Advantage Solutions Education Foundation directs its giving toward sponsorships and partnership support for charities tied to the grocery/retail industry, employee scholarship programs, food insecurity relief, and community nonprofits (notably in St. Louis). Most grants are event or sponsorship-oriented rather than direct program design funding, and the foundation supports a mix of national hunger and health charities alongside industry and corporate family foundations and local community organizations. It also funds scholarships for employees or beneficiaries via intermediaries like Scholarship America.
Better Together - the Advantage Solutions Education Foundation makes sponsorship-style grants across the grocery and retail ecosystem, with the largest recent awards going to industry-linked charities and hunger-relief groups. In 2025, it gave $225,000 to Ahold Delhaize USA Family Foundation and $175,000 to Feeding America, both labeled as sponsorship programs. That same year it also supported the Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis with a $100,000 sponsorship, showing that the foundation pairs industry partnerships with community-facing support. The grant record also includes employee scholarship funding, indicating that education support is part of the foundation’s work alongside event and partnership grants. Scholarship America appears in the recent list with awards for the Advantage Solutions Scholarship Fund and a separate sponsorship program grant. The foundation’s activity reaches both national organizations and local community nonprofits, but the recurring pattern is structured support through intermediaries, charities tied to retail and grocery companies, and organizations addressing food insecurity, health causes, and regional community needs.
One clear theme is industry partnership. The foundation gave $109,100 to Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust and $45,000 to The Albertsons Companies Foundation, both as sponsorship programs, which places grocery and retail affiliations at the center of its giving. Food insecurity is another visible area. In 2025, it awarded $175,000 to Feeding America and $15,000 to Food Marketing Educational Foundation, both in sponsorship roles, showing support for hunger-related work as well as sector-based charitable infrastructure. It also supports health-related sponsorships. Recent grants include $10,000 to American Diabetes Association, $10,000 to The American Cancer Society, $10,000 to Pink Ribbon Good Inc, and $5,000 to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. On the community side, the foundation gave $10,000 to St Louis American Charitable Foundation and $100,000 to Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis.
The reported grant-size distribution is tightly clustered: p25, median, and p75 are all $100,000. That lines up with a small set of repeated sponsorship awards rather than a wide spread of grant sizes. The foundation funds individuals and also makes grants through intermediaries such as Scholarship America, but the visible record is dominated by restricted sponsorship support. Most listed awards are from 2025, with one scholarship-related grant on file from 2023, suggesting both current activity and at least some repeat use of the same funding channel.
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$492K
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$1.2M
Most grants fall between $100K and $100K, with a median of $100K.
25th Percentile
$100K
Median
$100K
75th Percentile
$100K
About 7% of grants go to recipients in PA.
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Better Together - the Advantage Solutions Education Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 58 | $1.2M | 98.3% |
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Primarily sponsorship-driven, largely one-off or annual event grants across many beneficiaries rather than long-term multi‑year program investments; a mix of several large national gifts (six-figure) and numerous smaller sponsorships, with occasional repeat funding (e.g., Scholarship America) and a noticeable concentration on retail-industry partner organizations and hunger/health nonprofits.
Notable grantees: Ahold Delhaize USA Family Foundation, Feeding America, Scholarship America, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, HEB Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust
Grant recipients are overwhelmingly in the US, with one Canadian recipient in the recent list. Among US locations, Minnesota stands out by grant count, helped by awards to Minneapolis and Detroit entries connected to Scholarship America. St. Louis, Missouri also appears repeatedly, including Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis and St Louis American Charitable Foundation. Other recipient cities in the list include Chicago, San Antonio, Seattle, Jacksonville, and Carlisle.
The recent grants point to sponsorship support for grocery and retail industry charities, hunger-relief organizations, scholarship intermediaries, community nonprofits, and health charities. Examples in the record include industry foundations, Feeding America, Scholarship America, the Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis, and several disease-focused nonprofits.
The foundation’s grant-size distribution is flat at the center of the dataset: p25 is $100,000, the median is $100,000, and p75 is also $100,000. That suggests many of the recorded awards cluster around the $100,000 level, even though some individual sponsorships are larger or smaller.
Yes. The recent record includes a $100,000 grant to Scholarship America for the Advantage Solutions Scholarship Fund and a separate $18,625 award to Scholarship America. The broader profile also identifies employee scholarship programs as part of its giving.
The top state by grant count is Minnesota. In the recent list, that shows up through grants connected to Minneapolis and other Minnesota-linked recipient locations, even though the foundation’s headquarters are in Irvine, California and none of the listed grants go to California recipients.
It does not make program-related investments, and it does fund individuals. The profile flags funds individuals as true, while program-related investments are marked false. The visible grant record still centers on sponsorship and restricted support rather than open-ended program design funding.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
| Canada |
| 1 |
| $25K |
1.7% |
Recipient country reflects the grantee's headquarters per IRS 990-PF and Schedule F filings, not the program's implementation country.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FOUNDATION | CARLISLE, PA | $225,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| FEEDING AMERICA | CHICAGO, IL | $175,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| HEB TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS CHARITABLE TRUST | San Antonio, TX | $109,100 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | ST LOUIS, MO | $100,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Friends of Costco Guild | Seattle, WA | $95,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| SEG Gives Foundation | Jacksonville, FL | $65,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| The Albertsons Companies Foundation | Pleasanton, CA | $45,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Century Club Charities | Ridgeland, MS | $26,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| VETERANS FUTURE FOUNDATION | Quesnel, Br | $25,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Scholarship America | Detroit, MI | $18,625 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| WEIS MARKETS INC | SUNBURY, PA | $16,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| UNITED WAY INC | Portland, ME | $15,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Food Marketing Educational Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| New Jersey Food Council | Trenton, NJ | $11,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| The American Cancer Society | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| FMI Foundation | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| American Diabetes Association | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| PINK RIBBON GOOD INC | ENGLEWOOD, OH | $10,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| ST LOUIS AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | ST LOUIS, MO | $10,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| C&S Charities | Keene, NH | $10,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| BGC Charity | Tyler, TX | $9,800 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| ST PETERS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | Albany, NY | $8,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| ThinkBig Pediatric Cancer Fund | Boomsburg, PA | $8,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| ST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | ALBANY, NY | $8,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Core-Mark Families Foundation | Danville, CA | $7,500 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| UNFI Foundation | Providence, RI | $7,500 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| The Cancer Challenge | Bentonville, AR | $6,500 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| NEWFDA | Duxbury, MA | $6,044 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Sheetz for the kids | Altoona, PA | $5,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| SOAR NWA | Rogers, AR | $5,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | BETHESDA, MD | $5,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| SOUTHEASTERN GROCERS LLC | JACKSONVILLE, FL | $5,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Regional Business Council | Saint Louis, MO | $5,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| RICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC | McCall, ID | $4,500 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| March of Dimes Inc | Arlington, VA | $4,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| NIAGARA UNIVERSITY | NEW YORK, NY | $4,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Food for Families | West Sacramento, CA | $3,750 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Mid-adlantic Food Trade organization | Reading, PA | $3,500 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKOMA INC | SPRINGDALE, AR | $3,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Freestore Foodbank | Cincinnati, OH | $3,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| New England Food Foundation | Norfolk, MA | $3,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Friends of Food Industry | Suffern, NY | $3,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC | WORCESTER, MA | $2,585 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| NFFFA Annual Scholarship Award Charity | St Johns, FL | $2,500 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| FRANE Frozen | Manchester, CT | $2,500 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDRENS SHELTER INC | BENTONVILLE, AR | $2,500 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | Rye Brook, NY | $2,000 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| SCARC FOUNDATION INC | AUGUSTA, NJ | $1,600 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC | SAN DIEGO, CA | $1,500 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
| Children & Family Advocacy Center | Rogers, AR | $1,500 | 2025 | SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM |
AHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FOUNDATION
$225,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
HEB TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS CHARITABLE TRUST
$109,100SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Friends of Costco Guild
$95,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
SEG Gives Foundation
$65,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
The Albertsons Companies Foundation
$45,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
VETERANS FUTURE FOUNDATION
$25,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Scholarship America
$18,625SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
WEIS MARKETS INC
$16,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Food Marketing Educational Foundation
$15,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
New Jersey Food Council
$11,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
The American Cancer Society
$10,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
ST LOUIS AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
$10,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
C&S Charities
$10,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
BGC Charity
$9,800SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Core-Mark Families Foundation
$7,500SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
UNFI Foundation
$7,500SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
The Cancer Challenge
$6,500SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
NEWFDA
$6,044SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Sheetz for the kids
$5,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
SOAR NWA
$5,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
SOUTHEASTERN GROCERS LLC
$5,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
RICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC
$4,500SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY
$4,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Food for Families
$3,750SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Mid-adlantic Food Trade organization
$3,500SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKOMA INC
$3,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Freestore Foodbank
$3,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
New England Food Foundation
$3,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Friends of Food Industry
$3,000SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
NFFFA Annual Scholarship Award Charity
$2,500SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
FRANE Frozen
$2,500SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
SCARC FOUNDATION INC
$1,600SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC
$1,500SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Children & Family Advocacy Center
$1,500SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM