Emergency Assistance Foundation

What Emergency Assistance Foundation does

Emergency Assistance Foundation, Inc. (EAF) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2010 and headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. It administers employer-sponsored disaster and hardship relief funds on behalf of corporate partners, providing tax-free grants to eligible Charitable Class members — primarily employees of Fund Partner companies — in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters (hurricanes, wildfires, floods, pandemics) or unforeseen personal hardships (medical bills, domestic violence, funeral expenses, home damage). EAF is self-described as the oldest and largest standalone charity dedicated to this function and currently administers 350+ funds supporting 12M+ employees across 93+ countries, with cumulative disbursements exceeding $360M to more than 436,000 individuals and families.

The platform combines a scalable back-end fund-administration system with branded per-fund donation portals integrated to third-party payment processors (GiveSmart and MobileCause for US donations, DonorBox for non-US donations) and a structured Applicant Experience support service. EAF processes approximately five grants every hour (one family helped every twelve minutes) and operates a dedicated Application & Grant Support contact center backed by a published phone number and structured intake form. The technology stack is conventional and process-driven rather than AI-native; no public API, SDK, or developer platform is offered, and fraud/eligibility screening is handled by an internal team.

EAF's revenue model is donation-driven under its 501(c)(3) status: sponsoring companies seed and support individual funds (e.g., Aimbridge Hospitality, Driscoll's, Wayfair, Trane Technologies, Owens Corning, AIG, Airbnb, Progressive, Synchrony, Hershey, Ferguson, Catalent, L3Harris) and may cover all fund operating expenses, while employees and the public contribute tax-deductible donations through the branded portals. Pricing for establishing a fund is not publicly disclosed — companies must contact EAF via the 'Launch a Fund' page — and go-to-market combines direct enterprise sales, content marketing (EAF15 'Evolution of Employee Relief', Relief Fund Analysis 2024), industry events (Granting Hope 2026 Global Relief Fund Summit), earned media, and a separate community-foundation channel (People First Fund) targeting local foundations and government entities.

Name

Emergency Assistance Foundation

Legal name

Emergency Assistance Foundation, Inc.

Website

https://emergencyassistancefdn.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Emergency Assistance Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that administers employer-sponsored disaster and hardship relief funds for 350+ corporate partners across 93+ countries, having disbursed over $360M in tax-free grants to 436,000+ individuals and families.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Employee Relief Fund Administration

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Grantmaking Foundations (813211)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Refugee, IDP & Migration Humanitarian Assistance (BPAGAAAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Emergency Education / Education in Emergencies (EiE) (BPADADAN)

Keywords

• Employee relief funds
• Disaster financial assistance
• Hardship grant administration
• Corporate charitable funds
• 501(c)(3) fund services

Headquarters

HQ city

Palm Beach Gardens

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Sponsoring Organization Contributions & Fund Administration: 501(c)(3) nonprofit funded primarily through sponsoring companies (e.g., Aimbridge Hospitality, Driscoll's, Wayfair, Trane Technologies) that seed and support employee relief funds administered by EAF. Sponsors may cover all Fund operating expenses and donate to seed the Fund, as in the case of Kiddie Academy.
2. Individual & Public Donations Processing: Tax-deductible donations from employees of fund partners and the general public, collected through online portals (GiveSmart, DonorBox, MobileCause) at the US and non-US levels for each administered fund. EAF operates as a public charity soliciting contributions under its 501(c)(3) status.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Emergency Assistance Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that sets up and administers employer-sponsored disaster and hardship relief funds on behalf of corporate Fund Partners. It collects tax-deductible donations from sponsoring companies, employees, and the public, then disburses tax-free grants to eligible Charitable Class members (typically employees and their families) in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters or unforeseen personal hardships. The organization operates 350+ relief funds covering 12M+ employees across 93+ countries and has delivered $360M+ in financial assistance to 436K+ individuals and families.

Product overview

Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) operates a single unified fund-administration platform under which it deploys multiple fund-specific sub-brands and supporting modules. The core product is the Emergency Assistance Relief Fund (Employee Relief Funds) administration service — a 501(c)(3) standalone charity that helps hundreds of Fund Partner companies launch and run employer-sponsored disaster and hardship relief funds for their employees. Built on top of that core service are several named offerings: the People First Fund (which extends the platform to Community Foundations), the in-house EAF Cares Fund, branded Fund Donation Portals (350+ partner-branded donation pages), the Application & Grant Support service for applicants, the public EAFresources.org Local Resources module for non-members, and the EAF Insights content/research module (EAF15 Evolution report, annual Relief Fund Analysis reports, and the Granting Hope Global Relief Fund Summit).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• People First Fund: EAF-operated fund dedicated to providing rapid disaster and hardship relief for individuals in active emergency response situations, including a dedicated Community Foundation offering.
• EAF Cares Fund

Products and services

• Employer-Sponsored Employee Relief Fund Administration
• People First Fund (Community Foundation Program)
• Fund Donation Portal Network
• Application and Grant Support Service

Quantifiable outcome

• 350+ relief funds administered
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers45 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Spring Health: Spring Health is an emerging mental health and well-being benefits platform for employers, including financial wellness and life-event support. It is comparable to EAF as a corporate-funded benefits administrator addressing employee personal hardship, although its core focus is mental health rather than disaster relief.
• Lyra Health: Lyra Health is a venture-backed mental health benefits platform sold to enterprise employers. It overlaps with EAF as a corporate-funded employee well-being offering and could expand into adjacent financial hardship and crisis support, putting it on a partial collision course with EAF's mission.
• Modern Health: Modern Health is an emerging employee mental health and wellness platform serving global enterprises. It is comparable to EAF as an employer-funded well-being benefits provider, and its expansion into coaching and financial life services creates a partial overlap with EAF's hardship-relief value proposition.

Direct peers

• Health Advocate: Health Advocate provides employer-sponsored advocacy, EAP, and financial wellness services to corporate clients. It is comparable to EAF as a third-party administrator of employee benefits that addresses financial, health, and personal hardship issues for the workforce.
• ComPsych: ComPsych is the world's largest provider of Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), offering counseling, financial, legal, and work-life resources to employers. It is the closest direct peer to EAF in the employee support and corporate-funded benefits administration space, although ComPsych focuses on services rather than dedicated disaster/hardship grants.
• Workplace Options: Workplace Options is a global EAP and work-life services provider serving more than 70 million employees across 200+ countries. Like EAF, it delivers employer-funded support programs internationally and competes for the same corporate HR benefits budget, with a stronger emphasis on counseling and well-being than pure disaster grants.

Others

• Fidelity Charitable: Fidelity Charitable is the largest U.S. donor-advised fund sponsor and a key infrastructure provider for corporate giving and workplace giving programs. It is a thematically adjacent peer to EAF in the employer-sponsored charitable giving ecosystem, where many companies choose between DAFs, ERFs, and corporate foundations to channel employee donations and grants.

Broad incumbents

• Optum (UnitedHealth Group): Optum is a large incumbent that offers EAP, behavioral health, financial wellness, and employee assistance services as part of UnitedHealth Group's broader benefits platform. It competes for the same employer-sold HR benefits wallet as EAF but with a much wider portfolio that includes insurance, pharmacy, and care delivery.
• Evernorth (Cigna): Evernorth is Cigna's health services business that sells EAP, behavioral health, and pharmacy benefits to large employers. It is a broad incumbent competitor to EAF in employer-funded employee support, although its core products center on clinical and pharmacy services rather than dedicated disaster grants.
• New York Life Group Benefit Solutions: New York Life's Group Benefit Solutions division offers group disability, life, and absence management, plus employer-funded supplemental hardship and survivor benefits. It competes for the same employer risk-management and employee-protection budget that funds EAF-administered relief programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/eafrelief

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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