Dohmen Company Foundation

Name

Dohmen Company Foundation

Legal name

Dohmen Company Foundation, Inc.

Website

https://dohmencompanyfoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Health Philanthropy

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Other Grantmaking and Giving Services (813219)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Nutrition & Food Security (Global Health) NGOs (HLAJAKAH), Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB)

Keywords

• Philanthropic foundation services
• Impact investment funds
• Grant making services
• Food as medicine
• Health philanthropy

Headquarters

HQ city

Milwaukee

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Impact Investment Returns: Financial profits from the Dohmen Impact Investment Fund (which has grown beyond the initial $60 million) are reinvested into the foundation's charitable giving activities and public awareness strategies, creating a self-sustaining model.
2. Philanthropic Giving: The foundation deploys grants and investments to mission-aligned organizations. In September 2022, it pledged $75 million over seven years to fight diet-related disease. It has awarded more than $30.5 million in grants since 2019 and invested more than $35.5 million through its Impact Investment Fund.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Dohmen Company Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation that deploys grants and impact investments to eliminate diet-related disease in the United States. Its work is organized around three programmatic pillars — Research & Public Awareness, Impact Investing, and Grant Making — and is financed primarily through returns from the Dohmen Impact Investment Fund and capital pledges, with reach across all 50 states via a network of grantees, portfolio companies, and two wholly-owned subsidiaries (Food For Health and The Food Benefit Company).

Product overview

Dohmen Company Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation (not a technology product company) that advances its vision of life without diet-related disease through three strategic pillars: Research & Public Awareness, Grant Making, and Impact Investing. The foundation's primary offering is the Dohmen Impact Investment Fund, which deploys capital to mission-aligned for-profit social businesses developing food-as-medicine solutions. The foundation does not offer a software product, platform, or API.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Dohmen Impact Investment Fund: A $60+ million impact investment fund that invests in for-profit social businesses using food to improve human health, with financial profits fueling charitable giving activities
• Food Is Medicine Flywheel

Products and services

• Dohmen Impact Investment Fund Impact-investment vehicle that deploys capital into mission-aligned enterprises addressing diet-related disease; capital returns are recycled into the foundation's philanthropic programs. AUM exceeds $60 million.
• Research & Public Awareness Program Programmatic pillar that funds and disseminates research and education on the link between food and health, targeting policymakers, healthcare providers, and the general public.
• Grant Making Program Programmatic pillar that awards grants to nonprofit partners working to eliminate diet-related disease; supported by a $75 million multi-year commitment.
• Food For Health (Subsidiary) Wholly-owned subsidiary operating the supply side of the foundation's Food is Medicine Flywheel, providing nutritious food products and services to health-focused customers.
• The Food Benefit Company (Subsidiary) Wholly-owned subsidiary operating the payment side of the foundation's Food is Medicine Flywheel, structuring food-benefit programs that channel nutrition dollars through employers, payers, and providers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 712,800+ people impacted in 2025 alone
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law SchoolflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 March 2026DCF partnered with the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School to develop the Medically Tailored Meal (MTM) Sustainability Blueprint, addressing legal, regulatory, and operational considerations for integrating medically tailored meals into the healthcare system.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• The Rockefeller Foundation: Large established foundation with significant Food is Medicine commitments and federal nutrition policy advocacy; comparable in mission scope and use of grantmaking plus impact investing to address systemic health/food issues.
• Kaiser Permanente (Community Health & Food is Medicine programs): Integrated health system with growing Food is Medicine strategy, co-investor in Everytable, and operator of medically tailored meal pilots; comparable in combining healthcare expertise with nutrition interventions.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Major U.S. health-focused foundation funding research, policy, and programs on chronic disease and equity; comparable in using large-scale grantmaking to address diet-related health outcomes.

Direct peers

• S2G Investments: Multi-stage impact investor focused on food, agriculture, and health businesses; co-invested alongside DCF in Mealogic and operates a similar food-as-medicine impact investing thesis.
• Creadev: Global impact investment firm of the Mulliez family that invests in food, health, and inclusive businesses; co-invested in Everytable alongside DCF's DIIF with a similar double bottom-line approach.
• VoLo Foundation: Private foundation supporting climate, health, and education through grantmaking and investments; comparable as a smaller, mission-aligned private foundation deploying capital for systemic health/environmental change.

Emerging players

• FoodCorps: National nonprofit advancing child health through school food education; a major DCF grantee operating the Kindred Fellowship with DCF funding, sharing the food-as-medicine-in-schools mission.
• Brighter Bites: Nonprofit providing produce and nutrition education to families, partnered with DCF on Brighter Bites 2.0; comparable as a DCF-funded operator delivering direct nutrition interventions to communities.
• Food Is Medicine Coalition: National network of nonprofits delivering medically tailored meals; developed the MTM Sustainability Blueprint with DCF support, making it a core collaborator rather than peer but operating in the same Food is Medicine ecosystem.

Regional players

• Gullspång Re:food: European impact investor focused on sustainable food systems; co-invested with DCF in Everytable, comparable as a fellow mission-aligned investor backing for-profit food solutions.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/dohmenfoundtn
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dohmen-company-foundation
• Instagraminstagram.com/dohmencompanyfoundation

Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments3 records

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