Does Salesforce support Israel?

Salesforce announced $3 million in immediate humanitarian aid after the October 7 attacks, split $1 million each between United Hatzalah, Save the Children and The Association for Immediate Help for Holocaust Survivors, for basic aid, food, medical supplies and mental health support. Calcalist reported the $3 million total and the three recipients on 10 October 2023, and Salesforce's own newsroom statement — 11 October 2023, updated 2 November 2023 — confirms the three recipients and the $1-million-each split, so that split no longer rests on the JLens aggregator. The same statement adds $1 million to World Food Program USA for World Food Programme work in Gaza and puts the company's regional total at $4.7 million. Attribution: the money came from Salesforce, Inc. and not from the separately incorporated Salesforce Foundation, whose grant schedule for the fiscal year ending 31 January 2024 contains no Israel-linked recipient. How much of it was corporate money is not disclosed. Salesforce's 11 October 2023 statement puts the phrase “together with our employees” in the same sentence as the three $1-million gifts, and the 2 November update describes the $4.7 million regional total the same way, so the $3 million and the $4.7 million both mix company and employee money in proportions the company never separates. Calcalist and JLens report the $3 million as a company donation without that qualifier; this entry follows the company's own wording instead.

Salesforce gave $400,000 to an organization it names as High Tech for Israel, for local nonprofits delivering immediate relief to displaced and vulnerable people in Israel. This claim rests on one witness: Salesforce's own newsroom statement on the Israel-Hamas war, updated 2 November 2023. No news outlet has been found reporting the gift from its own reporting, and the advocacy aggregator JLens — whose June 2025 retrospective repeats the figure nineteen months later — reproduces the company's wording instead of adding a second account, so it is not cited here. The payer is the corporation and not the separately incorporated Salesforce Foundation: that foundation's Form 990-PF for the fiscal year ending 31 January 2024 — the year containing October and November 2023 — lists 27 grants and not one Israel-linked recipient. How much of the $400,000 was corporate money is not disclosed, because the company's own sentence places it inside a $4.7 million regional total committed “together with our employees”. One further caveat stays on the record: High Tech for Israel could not be identified as a registered charity under that name or any close variant, in either the IRS exempt-organizations data or Israeli tech-industry press, so the name is published as Salesforce's own description of the recipient and nothing more.