About Wawa Foundation
To strengthen the communities Wawa serves by supporting hunger relief, education and youth development, and community safety and sustainability through charitable giving, partnerships and employee volunteerism.
Focus Areas
Hunger relief/food banksEducation and youth programsCommunity safety and emergency responseLocal community development
Funding Style
program supportgeneral operating / unrestricted supportinternal foundation initiative funding
Topics
foundation program initiativesinternal program developmentstrategic/unspecified programmatic fundingcross-sector or multi-issue support
About Wawa Foundation
The Wawa Foundation Inc’s recent grantmaking shows a clear pattern of large, repeated support for organizations tied to food access, pediatric care, blood cancer services, and emergency response. Its biggest recent grant in the list is $1,696,935 to Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc in Hillside, New Jersey, followed by $1,524,681 to the American Red Cross in Philadelphia. Those awards sit alongside other seven-figure grants to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society entities, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and United Service Organizations Inc, indicating a portfolio built around recurring institutional partners rather than one-off awards. The foundation’s stated priorities also center on hunger relief, education and youth development, community safety, and sustainability, while its active community-grant programs emphasize health, hunger, and everyday heroes. Recent grants include support for both local and regional nonprofits, with multiple awards to the same organizations across 2023, 2024, and 2025. The result is a grantmaking profile that combines major operating support, program initiatives, and targeted partnerships across several community needs.
What Wawa Foundation Funds
Hunger relief is one of the foundation’s clearest funding areas. In 2025, it gave $300,000 to Philabundance in Philadelphia and $475,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc in Orlando, both for foundation program initiatives. Health-related funding appears in several forms. The foundation gave $999,607 to Children’s Miracle Network in Salt Lake City in 2025 and $567,621 in 2024, and it also supported The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation with $823,333 in 2025. Community safety and emergency response show up through a $1,524,681 grant to the American Red Cross in Philadelphia and another $1,113,296 to United Service Organizations Inc in Arlington. The foundation also supports youth and disability sports through grants to Special Olympics entities in Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
How Wawa Foundation Gives
Typical grants cluster around a middle range: the 25th percentile is $10,000, median grant size is $15,000, and the 75th percentile is $35,000. At the same time, the recent list includes repeated large program-initiative awards, which suggests a tiered approach that combines many smaller awards with a smaller set of very large commitments. The same organizations appear across multiple years, including the American Red Cross, Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc, Children’s Miracle Network, United Service Organizations Inc, and several Special Olympics affiliates. The foundation is a public charity and a regular funder. It also accepts unsolicited applications through its community grants program.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$15.4M
Total Assets
$7.1M
Total Revenue
$20.3M
Total Expenses
$18M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $35K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$35K
Geographic Reach
Regional23 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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