Businesses’ charitable giving programs offer both customers and employees a chance to participate in improving the world around them. Many employers also establish paid volunteer days and set up opportunities for their teams to get hands-on with community projects. Here are some companies that give back by investing financial support and volunteer hours in initiatives that support art, education, small business and other areas of focus.
Companies That Give Back
- Toast
- SRAM
- CarGurus
- The Kraft Heinz Company
- The PNC Financial Services Group
- NVIDIA
- Uncommon Goods
- Bookshop.org
Companies That Give Back
Headquarters: Santa Clara, California
NVIDIA builds hardware for applications like artificial intelligence-powered robots and high-performance computing. The NVIDIA Foundation enables employees to give back to the community by making donations and volunteering through the company’s Inspire 365 initiative. As part of the initiative, the foundation matches employees’ personal donations of up to $2,500 annually. Another option allows employees to be connected with opportunities to tutor students in subjects like math and science. The Save the Children Federation, Foundation for Ecological Security and Marine Toys for Tots Foundation have been among the organizations to benefit from the NVIDIA Foundation’s charitable giving.
Headquarters: Brooklyn, New York
Uncommon Goods is an online marketplace that sells items designed by independent makers and artists. The company’s Better to Give program, which began in 2001, has donated more than $2.8 million to various nonprofit organizations. Every purchase made on Uncommon Goods’ site results in a $1 donation — $2 for Uncommon Perks members — to a Better to Give partner of the shopper’s choice.
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Sojern is a tech company developing digital marketing solutions for hotels, airlines and other travel and hospitality businesses. As part of its perks and benefits package, Sojern has multiple employee groups, including Sojern Gives Back, which facilitates up to 40 hours of community services annually for each team member.
Headquarters: Bourne, Massachusetts
Convention Data Services offers an array of solutions for organizing live events like industry conferences. Its services cover everything from attracting attendees to transforming data into business intelligence that drives decision making. Each year, the company engages in corporate giving, providing charitable donations to various groups, such as nonprofit, education or humanitarian organizations. Team members also participate in holiday gift drives and volunteer through Big Brothers and Big Sisters.
Headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts
CarGurus is a tech company that functions as a virtual used car lot, operating a platform for buying, selling and financing consumer vehicles. The company has strong environmental, social and governance values — it donated nearly $700,000 to global charities between 2018 and 2021 and supports all its employees with funding and resources for learning and development. Despite being nominally in the car business, CarGurus is committed to offsetting its carbon footprint with its forthcoming headquarters, which will have public transit access, bicycle storage and EV charging stations.
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts
Toast’s point-of-sale system and other technology solutions are used by thousands of restaurants to make ordering, food prep, service and payment processes run smoothly. The company engages in various community service activities through Toast.org, its philanthropic branch, which maintains partnerships with groups like No Kid Hungry and Project Bread. The initiative has gotten more than 1.5 million meals into the hands of people who need them, and Toast joined a pledge to invest at least 1 percent of its product, equity or employee time into bettering communities, according to the Toast.org impact report.
Headquarters: Brooklyn, New York
Bookshop.org is an online bookstore that provides financial support to more than 1,600 independent, brick-and-mortar bookstores across the United States. Shoppers can select the bookstore that will receive the direct profits from their purchase, or the money can go into a profit pool that’s split between the Bookshop’s partner stores. Over 80 percent of Bookshop’s profits are given to independent booksellers, with more than $25 million raised to date, according to the company website.
Headquarters: Stamford, Connecticut
Spectrum provides broadband connectivity solutions for residences, as well as small, medium and enterprise businesses. The company actively works to make a positive impact through various philanthropic initiatives, such as the Spectrum Community Investment Loan Fund, which supports small businesses in underserved communities, and Spectrum Community Center Assist, which supports physical improvements to community centers and job skills training programs in the locations it serves.
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts
Bullhorn makes software to boost productivity for recruitment agencies. As a result of its commitment to the Pledge 1% initiative, the company makes sure a portion of its equity, employee time, product and profit goes toward supporting local communities. For example, it offers quarterly paid volunteer days as part of its benefits package and has an employee-led philanthropy effort that’s raised more than $500,000 since 2006.
Headquarters: Nashua, New Hampshire
Skillsoft builds digital solutions that support employee development and continuous learning for companies across industries like telecommunications, healthcare, hospitality and manufacturing. Skillsoft’s emphasis on corporate social responsibility includes giving in the form of both financial and in-kind product donations. Under the direction of its CSR Steering Committee, the company works with a range of partner organizations, focusing on “fostering diversity, equity, inclusion and gender equality,” according to the company’s 2023 impact report.
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Chime is dedicated to improving financial management by providing no-fee checking and savings accounts, debit cards and other financial services. Operating in both the United States and Canada, Chime strives to offer a straightforward, cost-free banking experience. Its volunteer portal allows team members to get involved in the community easily.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
The Kraft Heinz Company is a food and beverage industry staple producing condiments, macaroni and other popular brand-name food products. The company has pledged to deliver 1.5 billion meals by 2025 to people in need as part of a global mission to aid in mitigating hunger. The Kraft Heinz Foundation has initiated partnerships, made donations and engaged employees in volunteer opportunities to work toward this goal.
Headquarters: Richmond, Virginia
PwC is a global company offering expert consulting services and technology solutions to help businesses execute digital transformation strategies. The PwC Charitable Foundation has given more than $200 million in the form of grants and investments to support education and humanitarian initiatives and to bolster the communities where PwC team members live and work. The foundation also puts money toward expanding access to education and career opportunities for veterans.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Strategic consulting firm tms offers technology, marketing and sourcing solutions to help brands like T-Mobile, Samsung and adidas deliver innovative customer experiences. The company employs more than 1,200 people who work across over two dozen countries. Each year, those team members participate in thousands of hours of community service, engaging in various projects across the globe for groups like Ronald McDonald House Charities and the American Heart Association.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Dscout offers a platform designed to collect data. Its "Dscout gives back" initiative enables opportunities for its team to give back to their communities and volunteer. The group has participated in local food banks, park cleanups and packing snack bags for children at the Ronald McDonald House. Dscout also offers donation matching as part of its benefits.
Headquarters: New York, New York
Optimum is an American cable television provider, serving close to 5 million residential and business customers with pay television, internet access, telephone services and original television content. Optimum regularly partners with the robotics community FIRST to sponsor teams in the FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST provides students with mentorship opportunities that help develop their STEM skills and Optimum’s sponsorship supplies the resources FIRST teams need to build out their robotics programs.
Headquarters: City of Industry, California
Youth apparel retailer Hot Topic gained notoriety in the 1990s for selling band t-shirts and other pop, punk and alternative music apparel and accouterments. It has maintained a retail presence for over three decades. As a company catering to youth music culture, Hot Topic has established a foundation that improves youth access to mental health care and music education, where it supports work by nonprofits like Little Kids Rock and Mental Health America.
Headquarters: Woodland Hills, California
Golden Hippo’s direct-to-consumer brands populate the health, beauty and pet care space with expert-developed products that the company promotes through in-house marketing services. Every Golden Hippo brand supports a specific charity, and the company’s contributions to those organizations have topped $6 million.
Headquarters: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Adyen’s technology lets businesses accept in-person and digital payments, prevent fraud and optimize the customer experience. Using the Adyen Giving solution, businesses can integrate an option for customers to make nonprofit donations into the checkout experience. Adyen takes care of the fees and ensures the entire donation goes directly to the designated cause. As part of its effort to operate responsibly, Adyen also puts 1 percent of its yearly net revenue toward UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Through Taskrabbit’s digital platform, consumers connect with capable individuals who can handle tasks like assembling furniture, cutting grass, hauling away junk, mounting a TV or painting walls. The company created the Taskrabbit For Good social impact program to support community-based organizations, providing them with grant funding, for example, and access to volunteers.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Belvedere Trading is a proprietary trading firm and market maker specializing in equity index and commodity derivatives. The company takes a two-pronged approach to giving back through its Belvedere Cares initiative. Team Belvedere Cares empowers employees to engage in community events and matching programs, and the Belvedere Cares Foundation fosters long-term community partnerships. Its charitable giving initiatives are managed by a committee of Team Belvedere members.
Headquarters: Gardena, California
Through Ruggable’s online platform, consumers can shop for washable rugs based on factors like color, size, style and texture. The company donates rugs that have been returned but are still usable to A Sense of Home, a nonprofit that works to furnish homes for youth who are aging out of the foster care system, and the Chicago Furniture Bank, which provides free home furnishings to people who can’t otherwise afford them. Ruggable’s philanthropy efforts also provide financial support to the FACE Foundation to fund critical medical care for pets whose owners are facing financial hardship along with the Best Friends Animal Society, which runs a no-kill animal sanctuary.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Enova aims to give back to the social and economic wellbeing of the communities it serves. It invests in organizations that expand access to quality education, improve the lives of young people in need or provide access to financial literacy. The company also offers employees a paid volunteer day each calendar year for benefits eligible associates and has a charitable match program.
Headquarters: Fully Remote
Bonterra makes software and IT products for nonprofits, public sector organizations and other “social good” institutions. Its products drive increased charitable activity by optimizing donor engagement, facilitating program management and upleveling corporate social responsibility. The company is working toward an ambitious vision to raise charitable donations from 2 percent to 3 percent of the U.S. GDP.
Headquarters: Falls Church, Virginia
BAE Systems is an international tech company specializing in developing defense, aerospace and security solutions. Its Community Investment program partners with a variety of organizations that undertake initiatives to support current and former military service members, STEM education and other causes that align with the company’s values. Through the Community Impact initiative, BAE Systems’ employees can nominate nonprofit groups to receive funding.
Headquarters: New York, New York
Media giant NBCUniversal, which is a Comcast subsidiary, has an international family of brands that encompasses movie studios, streaming, network television, broadcast news and tourist destinations. Its social impact initiative known as Comcast NBCUnites is structured around three pillars: community, voices and access. It focuses on creating opportunities for employees to engage in volunteer service and partnering with nonprofit groups like Big Brothers Big Sisters, which facilitates opportunities to mentor youth, and City Year, an organization dedicated to closing education gaps.
Headquarters: Lakewood, Colorado
FirstBank is a financial services company that operates over 100 banking centers in Colorado, Arizona and California. It offers a full suite of standard banking services like personal and business checking and savings accounts, loans and mortgages. The company partners with the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority to provide Providing Access to Homeownership, or PATH, grants to individuals to use as down payments. PATH aims to provide qualified Black homebuyers with the necessary funds to buy their first home.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
OCC is a financial services company offering clearing, settlement and risk management services to enable stability across U.S. listed-options markets. Its philanthropic efforts center around partnering with community organizations, as well as encouraging employees to get involved in giving back through a donation matching program and paid volunteer time. OCC’s partner organizations include Chicago Scholars, a nonprofit that supports first-generation college students, and Out in Finance, which aims to advance LGBTQ+ inclusion in the financial services industry.
Headquarters: Framingham, Massachusetts
Healthcare business intelligence provides investors and stakeholders in healthcare businesses with real, actionable information to guide their business operations. Definitive Healthcare makes commercial intelligence software for the healthcare industry, providing clients with data-driven insights into the details of a healthcare business or provider’s value. In addition to a company culture of charitable giving, the company gamifies giving in-house by donating $1 to a nonprofit for every data discrepancy found on its platform.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
SRAM is a global company manufacturing components for both mountain and road bikes. Its Cycling Fund invests $1 million annually in organizations from Europe and North America dedicated to building and improving cycling infrastructure. The company also supports World Bicycle Relief, which was co-founded by SRAM’s executive vice president in the early 2000s. The nonprofit group provides bicycles to people living in low-income regions so they’re able to make it to school, work and medical appointments.
Headquarters: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wipfli provides organizations with services across areas like accounting, risk advisory, cybersecurity, data and analytics and outsourcing. The company’s annual Community Day encourages employees to give back through volunteer service. In 2024, 1,000-plus Wipfli associates were responsible for completing more than 3,400 service hours for over 70 different community organizations as part of the initiative. The Wipfli Foundation formed in 2005 to focus on university and community support as well as grantmaking, and its charitable activity includes matching employee donations.
Headquarters: Bagsværd, Denmark
Novo Nordisk is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and providing access to treatments for chronic diseases such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Its commitment to corporate giving supports social and humanitarian causes through grant programs and corporate sponsorships. Novo Nordisk also provides employees with paid time off they can use specifically to participate in volunteer opportunities.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Grubhub is a food ordering and delivery marketplace that connects foodies with over 365,000 restaurants in more than 4,000 cities across the U.S. Grubhub is based in Chicago and also has offices in Boston and New York City. In 2018, Grubhub launched “Donate the Change,” allowing diners to round up their totals to support the Grubhub Community Fund, which aids independent restaurants and addresses hunger. The company also matches donations from Grubhub+ members and partners with diverse organizations to support AAPI-, Black-, Hispanic-, and LGBTQ+-owned restaurants.
Headquarters: Broomfield, Colorado
Gogo Business Aviation is a broadband connectivity services provider for business aircraft so passengers can stay connected through smart cabin features like connectivity, entertainment and voice communication. The company participates in local volunteer activities, supporting organizations like A Precious Child and Veterans Community Project. It also partners with nonprofits like Broomfield FISH while sponsoring a number of employee resource groups and their various initiatives.
Headquarters: Fully Remote
Terakeet is a marketing company that specializes in owned asset optimization, or OAO, which takes brand assets like blog posts and social media followings, and develops strategy on how to use them as value-adds to brand identity and marketing. The Syracuse-based company gives back to the local and regional community through fundraising events and by service on nonprofit boards.
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts
Individuals, families and businesses look to Liberty Mutual Insurance for policies that cover everything from boats and pets to commercial auto fleets and environmental risk. The company provides its network of more than 8,700 community partners with charitable donations and volunteer support. On top of its corporate giving efforts, Liberty Mutual also has an employee gift matching program and facilitates annual days of service so that team members can participate in community projects like stocking a food pantry or cleaning up a local beach.
Headquarters: Cincinnati, Ohio
PatientPoint makes patient engagement software for healthcare providers and facilities. Its products handle patient acquisition, remote care, hospital management and physician office processes. The company’s charitable initiatives include giving 1 percent of its profits to its foundation, the PatientPoint Foundation, which directs funding toward health equity for underserved communities.
Headquarters: Santa Barbara, California
LogicMonitor’s cloud-based infrastructure monitoring platform gives IT teams the capabilities to explore digital transformation and automate certain manual tasks so they can run more efficiently. The company’s community initiatives have included various volunteer opportunities like helping out at soup kitchens, food banks and animal shelters along with participating in beach and lake clean-ups.
Headquarters: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
PNC provides banking services to individual, small business and corporate customers. Its commitment to philanthropy includes the PNC Grow Up Great program, a $500 million initiative focused on early learning and preparing children for school. PNC Arts Alive has also provided more than $20 million in grants to various cultural organizations since 2009.
Headquarters: New York, New York
Harry’s, Inc. is a company that offers personal care products — such as shaving, grooming and body care — both online and in-store, featuring brands like Harry’s, Flamingo, Lume, and its recent launch, Mando. Since its launch, Harry’s Inc. has implemented a social mission program to give back to the community, which includes donating over $16 million to more than 20 global nonprofit partners.
Headquarters: Munich, Bavaria
Personio produces HR software for businesses of all sizes. Its product covers functions like collecting employee feedback and managing payroll processes. The company committed to putting 1% of its equity toward making a positive social impact through charitable causes. That led to the 2021 founding of the Personio Foundation, which works with organizations focused on climate action and education, providing them with various forms of support, such as grant funding, strategic expertise and free software access.
