Does Smucker's support Israel?

We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Smucker's. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.

Filed under: Food & beverage brands · Coffee chains & brands · Companies that support Israel

Background

No record was found of The J.M. Smucker Company (the Orrville, Ohio food maker behind Folgers, Café Bustelo, Jif, Smucker's, Uncrustables and Hostess) donating to or otherwise supporting Israel. Smucker's own SEC filings explicitly state the company has 'no operations in Russia, Ukraine, Israel, or Palestine,' and mention Israel only in generic risk-factor boilerplate about the 'Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas' conflicts and their effect on commodity prices and supply chains. No corporate donations, PAC giving toward Israel-related causes, or foundation grants to Israel-linked groups were identified. The Folgers and Jif brands appear on general consumer-boycott chatter by association with the parent company, but no verified act of support underlies it.

J.M. Smucker 10-K (SEC EDGAR, FY2024) — 'no operations in ... Israel'; Israel only in risk factors

What we checked

• News & official statements — 2026-07-28
  Searched Smucker/Folgers/Jif + Israel donation/support/boycott. No corporate support or donation found. Only general BDS-chatter by brand association; no verified act of support.
• Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-28
  ProPublica search returned family philanthropies tied to the founding family (Willard E. Smucker Foundation EIN 34-6610889 and Richard & Emily Smucker Family Foundation, both Orrville OH), not a corporate foundation. No Israel-linked grantees (FIDF, JNF, MDA, etc.) identified.
• SEC filings — 2026-07-28
  Reviewed all 13 'israel' hits in Smucker's FY2024 10-K (CIK 91419). All are risk-factor boilerplate; the filing states the company has 'no operations in Russia, Ukraine, Israel, or Palestine.' No donation or support language.
• Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-28
  No J.M. Smucker corporate PAC found in FEC records; committees surfaced by name search are unrelated ('J'-initial namesakes). No corporate political giving toward Israel-related causes.
• Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-28
  J.M. Smucker (and Folgers/Jif) do not appear as verified support cases on BDS/boycott lists or fact-checker articles; no substantiated 'Smucker supports Israel' claim found.
• usaspending — 2026-09-25
  Queried the USAspending.gov award API on 2026-09-25 for US federal contracts, grants and other awards to this company whose award text mentions Israel. It returned no awards.
• lobbying — 2026-09-25
  Searched the US Lobbying Disclosure Act database at lda.gov on 2026-09-25 for filings naming this company as the client whose reported lobbying issues mention Israel. No filings matched.
• ohchr — 2026-09-25
  Checked the UN OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, report A/HRC/60/19, on 2026-09-25. This company is not listed in it.
• whoprofits — 2026-09-25
  Searched the Who Profits company index on 2026-09-25 — the research centre that documents corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation. This company has no profile there.
• hebrew-arabic-press — 2026-09-25
  Searched Hebrew and Arabic news for this company on 2026-09-25 via Google News and Bing News. No headline mentioned a donation, aid, the war, an investment, an acquisition or a boycott.

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Sources & citations

Record last updated: 2026-09-25

• J.M. Smucker 10-K (SEC EDGAR, FY2024) — 'no operations in ... Israel'; Israel only in risk factors sec.gov