For 90 Years…

for Children

2020 Annual Report

In the nine decades since Will Keith Kellogg established the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, our dedication to his vision for children has only deepened. In a 90th year of challenges and crises, Mr. Kellogg’s bold action so that “children can face the future with confidence” is more compelling and vital than ever.

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For 90 Years…

for Children

2020 Annual Report

In the nine decades since Will Keith Kellogg established the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, our dedication to his vision for children has only deepened. In a 90th year of challenges and crises, Mr. Kellogg’s bold action so that “children can face the future with confidence” is more compelling and vital than ever.

CELESTE
A. CLARK

BOARD CHAIR

“Mr. Kellogg was a force for change. When we look at leadership from that lens, its relevance today is striking.”

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A Legacy In Action

In 1930, W.K. Kellogg established a private philanthropy “for the health, happiness and well-being of children.” In 2020, Board Chair Celeste A. Clark and President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron speak to the relevance of WKKF’s legacy today and how Mr. Kellogg’s leadership and action continue to direct our path.

LA JUNE
MONTGOMERY TABRON

PRESIDENT & CEO

“In such a year, the spirit of Mr. Kellogg’s leadership has called us to innovate, stretch and adapt with the same boldness he did in 1930.”

READ LETTER

A Legacy In Action

In 1930, W.K. Kellogg established a private philanthropy “for the health, happiness and well-being of children.” In 2020, Board Chair Celeste A. Clark and President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron speak to the relevance of WKKF’s legacy today and how Mr. Kellogg’s leadership and action continue to direct our path.

CELESTE A. CLARK

BOARD CHAIR

“Mr. Kellogg was a force for change. When we look at leadership from that lens, its relevance today is striking.”

READ LETTER

LA JUNE
MONTGOMERY TABRON

PRESIDENT & CEO

“In such a year, the spirit of Mr. Kellogg’s leadership has called us to innovate, stretch and adapt with the same boldness he did in 1930.”

READ LETTER

Michigan was the foundation’s first priority place and remains one today. But the reach and scope of our grantees’ work on behalf of children, families and communities today bears out Mr. Kellogg’s confidence in people to solve problems and surmount obstacles when given the opportunity.

Our Backyard and Beyond

Michigan was the foundation’s first priority place and remains one today. But the reach and scope of our grantees’ work on behalf of children, families and communities today bears out Mr. Kellogg’s confidence in people to solve problems and surmount obstacles when given the opportunity.

Our Backyard and Beyond

Shared Data Moving the Needle for Young Children

In 2014, just 15.5% of Battle Creek’s children were ready for kindergarten. By 2020, that rate has more than doubled to 39.2%. Improvement on that scale doesn’t happen by accident. In Battle Creek, it’s the result of a decade-long collaborative focus involving organizations across the early childhood education and care spectrum…

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Change Happens at the Pace of the People

New Orleans is known as the soul of America. But like many iconic American communities, the city faces the racial inequities at the forefront of every conversation now. As W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) grantees and partners in New Orleans know, the challenges they create for children and families are immense and continuous.

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Creativity and Speedy Adaption Outfit Frontline Workers

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, at Southwest Creations Collaborative’s (SCC) 10,000-square-foot industrial building, a social enterprise group of 36 successful entrepreneurs — a culturally diverse mix of women, some of whom are immigrants — are busy designing and sewing protective gear for frontline workers across the state.

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Facing a Monumental Challenge While Improving Access to Quality Child and Maternal Care in Mirebalais, Haiti

In Haiti, the coronavirus pandemic threatens an already fragile health system for a country that’s too familiar with devastating natural disasters. As the uncertainty mounts, here’s how one local hospital is courageously fighting the pervasive disease in the island nation.

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In a Pandemic, Kids’ TV Producers Keep Indigenous Mexican Voices in the Conversation

Some of us are watching and reading credible sources on the coronavirus every day. Others face a serious dearth of helpful information about the pandemic in a language they can understand. It’s a dangerous situation that organizations around the world have quickly and creatively stepped up to address.

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Spreading Information to Fight COVID-19 Across Cultures

In early 2020, as the novel coronavirus began to spread, fear and misinformation did, too. In response, W.K. Kellogg Foundation grantees and partners across the Americas brought together artists, communicators and translators to craft urgent messages that would reach and touch people in many communities.

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MICHIGAN

Shared Data Moving the Needle for Young Children

In 2014, just 15.5% of Battle Creek’s children were ready for kindergarten. By 2020, that rate has more than doubled to 39.2%. Improvement on that scale doesn’t happen by accident. In Battle Creek, it’s the result of a decade-long collaborative focus involving organizations across the early childhood education and care spectrum…

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NEW ORLEANS

Change Happens at the Pace of the People

New Orleans is known as the soul of America. But like many iconic American communities, the city faces the racial inequities at the forefront of every conversation now. As W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) grantees and partners in New Orleans know, the challenges they create for children and families are immense and continuous.

READ MORE
NEW MEXICO

Creativity and Speedy Adaption Outfit Frontline Workers

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, at Southwest Creations Collaborative’s (SCC) 10,000-square-foot industrial building, a social enterprise group of 36 successful entrepreneurs — a culturally diverse mix of women, some of whom are immigrants — are busy designing and sewing protective gear for frontline workers across the state.

READ MORE
HAITI

Facing a Monumental Challenge While Improving Access to Quality Child and Maternal Care in Mirebalais, Haiti

In Haiti, the coronavirus pandemic threatens an already fragile health system for a country that’s too familiar with devastating natural disasters. As the uncertainty mounts, here’s how one local hospital is courageously fighting the pervasive disease in the island nation.

READ MORE
MEXICO

In a Pandemic, Kids’ TV Producers Keep Indigenous Mexican Voices in the Conversation

Some of us are watching and reading credible sources on the coronavirus every day. Others face a serious dearth of helpful information about the pandemic in a language they can understand. It’s a dangerous situation that organizations around the world have quickly and creatively stepped up to address.

READ MORE
COVID-19

Spreading Information to Fight COVID-19 Across Cultures

In early 2020, as the novel coronavirus began to spread, fear and misinformation did, too. In response, W.K. Kellogg Foundation grantees and partners across the Americas brought together artists, communicators and translators to craft urgent messages that would reach and touch people in many communities.

READ MORE

Community Collaboration

Community has been at the core of WKKF efforts from the beginning. Mr. Kellogg described it as “cooperative planning, intelligent study and group action.”  In 2020, grantees live that legacy. Cross-sector collaboration, relationships and shared purpose turn the insight and resolve of people into tangible change on the ground in communities.

Community Collaboration

Community has been at the core of WKKF efforts from the beginning. Mr. Kellogg described it as “cooperative planning, intelligent study and group action.”  In 2020, grantees live that legacy. Cross-sector collaboration, relationships and shared purpose turn the insight and resolve of people into tangible change on the ground in communities.

Our grantees and investment partners have always been catalytic partners in their communities and sectors — generating and using ideas, data and knowledge to attract resources for innovation. In broad networks, they are reinvigorating sectors and illustrating the power and relevance of collective leadership.

Our grantees and investment partners have always been catalytic partners in their communities and sectors — generating and using ideas, data and knowledge to attract resources for innovation. In broad networks, they are reinvigorating sectors and illustrating the power and relevance of collective leadership.

New Mexico: A Day in the Life of a Childcare Provider in New Mexico

The sun has yet to rise over the Organ Mountains in Las Cruces New Mexico, and Valeria Holloway has already disinfected every corner of her home-based childcare center, sanitized all toys and ensured activity stations are set for safe distance learning.Read More »

Haiti: Engaging With Community to Fight COVID-19

Dr. Inobert Pierre has seen his share of emergencies. In 2010, after working for eight years as a pediatrician at the St. Boniface Hospital in Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti, Pierre became the institution’s general director. Just months before, an earthquake had killed more than 100,000 of his compatriots, and in the decade that followed he led the hospital through a relentless parade of crises.Read More »

National: Dismantling Structural Racism Removes Barriers to Capital

The racial wealth gap persists in part because businesses owned by people of color are shut out of the capital markets at every turn. This was true before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, according to a 2018 Small Business Administration report that found business enterprises owned by entrepreneurs of color experienced higher interest rates and more loan denials. Similar trends persisted throughout 2020.Read More »

Michigan: Finding Hope in Detroit

Why do some children develop resilience, while others don’t? Understanding why some children do well despite adverse early experiences is crucial. Healthy development in the early years provides the building blocks for educational achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, lifelong health, strong communities and successful parenting of the next generation.Read More »

Michigan Grantees Protect Equitable Employment by Supporting Small Businesses

In 2019, there were more than 870,000 small businesses in Michigan employing about 1.9 million people (more than 49% of the state’s private workforce). *Small businesses play a vital role in the economic health and security of families and communities across the state.Read More »

Strong Relationships and Big Ideas Catalyze Philanthropists of Color

When communities envision the future and the changes they want to see, creativity, leadership and generosity are on full display. This is especially true in the cohort of more than 30 organizations in the Catalyzing Community Giving (CCG) initiative.Read More »

WKKF Community Leadership Network (CLN): Visionary Leaders Rise to the Occasion

In times of unprecedented turmoil, communities turn to compassionate and capable local leaders to help bridge the divides and bring about positive change.Read More »

Mission Driven Investing Accelerates Change

Mission-driven investing uses both below-market-rate and market-rate investments–effectively putting more money to work in communities and growing the range of opportunities available to investors looking for ways to fuel meaningful change.Read More »

WKKF-Resource Directory: Knowledge as a Public Good, Informing Today’s Challenges

W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Enhanced Resource Directory – A newly refreshed and enhanced Resource Directory is available on the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s website, featuring resources published or funded by WKKF.Read More »

The Kellogg Foundation’s roots are in changing the status quo, and grantees embrace that legacy with children’s lives and futures in mind. As their actions demonstrate, that may require taking risks, going out front on issues, finding unlikely allies and amplifying voices often muted in decision making.

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The Kellogg Foundation’s roots are in changing the status quo, and grantees embrace that legacy with children’s lives and futures in mind. As their actions demonstrate, that may require taking risks, going out front on issues, finding unlikely allies and amplifying voices often muted in decision making.

The Year Ahead

The Kellogg Foundation’s legacy set us on a path. But learning has been continuous in the 90 years since. This past year’s lessons, based on grantee adaptation, commitment and action mark the way forward.

Racial Equity

Advance Racial Equity by 2030

A global call to advance racial equity by 2030. Our founder Will Keith Kellogg established the foundation in 1930 during a global economic crisis. He made his commitment known by saying, “I’ll invest my money in people.” For 90 years, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has pursued its mission based on his belief that people have the capacity to solve their own problems.

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Racial Equity

Racial Equity 2030

A global call to advance racial equity by 2030. Our founder Will Keith Kellogg established the foundation in 1930 during a global economic crisis. He made his commitment known by saying, “I’ll invest my money in people.” For 90 years, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has pursued its mission based on his belief that people have the capacity to solve their own problems.

READ MORE

Advancing Racial Equity in Business

Advancing racial equity requires leadership at every level. That is why the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) broadened its racial equity efforts in 2020 to work directly with the corporate sector. The goal is to expand equitable opportunity by transforming some of the largest and fastest-growing industries in the United States.

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Expanding Equity

Expanding Equity

Advancing Racial Equity in Business

Advancing racial equity requires leadership at every level. That is why the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) broadened its racial equity efforts in 2020 to work directly with the corporate sector. The goal is to expand equitable opportunity by transforming some of the largest and fastest-growing industries in the United States.

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By The Numbers

Grant Making Data

Transparency

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was one of the first private philanthropies to operationalize transparency by publishing an annual report in 1951. In the practice of steady measurement and accounting over 90 years, we infuse Mr. Kellogg’s practical business orientation into every aspect of our work on behalf of children, families and communities.

Financial Report

Transparency

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was one of the first private philanthropies to operationalize transparency by publishing an annual report in 1951. In the practice of steady measurement and accounting over 90 years, we infuse Mr. Kellogg’s practical business orientation into every aspect of our work on behalf of children, families and communities.

Grant Making Data

Financial Report

Meet Our Board

From Left: Celeste A. Clark (Battle Creek, Michigan), Milton Chen (San Francisco, California), Richard M. Tsoumas (Battle Creek, Michigan), Khan Nedd (Grand Rapids, Michigan), La June Montgomery Tabron (Battle Creek, Michigan), Ramón Murguía (Kansas City, Kansas), Cathann Kress (Columbus, Ohio), Roderick D. Gillum (Detroit, Michigan) and Christina K. Hanger (Plano, Texas)

From Left: Celeste A. Clark (Battle Creek, Michigan), Milton Chen (San Francisco, California), Richard M. Tsoumas (Battle Creek, Michigan), Khan Nedd (Grand Rapids, Michigan), La June Montgomery Tabron (Battle Creek, Michigan), Ramón Murguía (Kansas City, Kansas), Cathann Kress (Columbus, Ohio), Roderick D. Gillum (Detroit, Michigan) and Christina K. Hanger (Plano, Texas)

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“It has given me a great deal of satisfaction to feel that the contributions of the Foundation will help children everywhere to face the future more confidently, healthier in mind and body, and more secure in their trust of this country and its institutions.”

– W.K. Kellogg

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“It has given me a great deal of satisfaction to feel that the contributions of the foundation will help children everywhere to face the future more confidently, healthier in mind and body, and more secure in their trust of this country and its institutions.”

– W.K. Kellogg