We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Vicks. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.
Filed under: Household & consumer goods brands · Pharma & healthcare companies · Companies that support Israel
Background
No recorded donations, in-kind aid, sponsorships, statements or political contributions to Israeli causes were found for the Vicks brand. Vicks is a Procter & Gamble personal-health brand, and this pass could not document a brand-level presence in Israel either: Diplomat Distributors (1968) Ltd., the Israeli group that handles P&G distribution in the country, lists seventeen P&G brands on its Israel vendor pages — Ariel, Braun, Fairy, Gillette, Gillette Venus, KCG, Lenor, Old Spice, Pampers, Tampax, Tide, Always, Aussie, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Oral-B and Pantene — and Vicks is not among them. Vicks does appear on Diplomat's New Zealand and South Africa P&G vendor listings, which is a different market, and no Hebrew-language Vicks brand site resolves. What is documented in Israel belongs to the parent: P&G maintains the subsidiary P&G Israel M.D.O. Ltd., listed in its FY2025 10-K subsidiaries exhibit, and has run the 'Israel House of Innovation' open-innovation hub since 2007 under a bilateral agreement with Israel's Office of the Chief Scientist. P&G made no corporate statement on the war after October 7, 2023 — its CFO called the attack and the war that followed a 'human tragedy'. The one P&G brand with documented brand-level philanthropy inside Israel is Pantene, through the children's-cancer charity Zichron Menachem; that record is Pantene's and not Vicks'. Neither Vicks nor P&G appears on the BDS movement's official boycott target lists. Absence of a record here means nothing was found, not that nothing exists.
Diplomat Global — Israel, P&G vendor listing (Vicks absent) Diplomat Global — New Zealand, P&G vendor listing (Vicks present) SEC — P&G 10-K Exhibit 21, Subsidiaries (FY2025): P&G Israel M.D.O. Ltd. Forbes — P&G's Israel House of Innovation and Chief Scientist agreement Bloomberg — Israel-Hamas war puts pressure on CEOs and companies to speak up (P&G CFO remarks) BDS movement — official 'What to boycott' target list (Vicks/P&G absent)
What we checked
- News & official statements — 2026-07-30Hebrew, English and Arabic searches for Vicks donations, aid shipments, sponsorships or statements concerning Israel returned nothing. Diplomat's Israel P&G vendor pages, checked directly, do not list Vicks; its New Zealand and South Africa listings do.
- Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-30Vicks has no charitable foundation of its own; any giving would run through P&G corporate philanthropy, reviewed on the parent page, where no Israel-linked grantee was identified.
- SEC filings — 2026-07-30Vicks is not a separate SEC filer; disclosures fall under P&G (CIK 80424), whose FY2025 10-K subsidiaries exhibit lists P&G Israel M.D.O. Ltd. and shows no Vicks-specific Israeli entity.
- Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-30FEC committee search returns no Vicks-specific PAC; corporate political activity runs through P&G's PAC, checked on the parent page with no pro-Israel committee disbursements found.
- Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-30No major fact-checker has ruled on a Vicks-specific Israel claim, and Vicks is absent from the BDS movement's official boycott target lists; boycott directories list it only as a P&G brand. Checked in both directions; no advocacy site is used as a source here.
- usaspending — 2026-09-25Queried 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 — 2026-09-25Searched 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 — 2026-09-25Checked 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 — 2026-09-25Searched 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 — 2026-09-25Searched 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.
Frequently asked questions
Did Vicks donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
No records found. We searched 10 public source types — news and official statements, nonprofit tax filings, SEC filings, and federal election records — and found no donations from Vicks. The dated search log on this page shows exactly where we looked.
Where does this information come from?
Every record on this page links to its source — news reports, official company statements, tax filings, or government records. 6 distinct sources are cited for Vicks. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-25
- Diplomat Global — Israel, P&G vendor listing (Vicks absent) diplomat-global.com
- Diplomat Global — New Zealand, P&G vendor listing (Vicks present) diplomat-global.com
- SEC — P&G 10-K Exhibit 21, Subsidiaries (FY2025): P&G Israel M.D.O. Ltd. sec.gov
- Forbes — P&G's Israel House of Innovation and Chief Scientist agreement forbes.com
- Bloomberg — Israel-Hamas war puts pressure on CEOs and companies to speak up (P&G CFO remarks) bloomberg.com
- BDS movement — official 'What to boycott' target list (Vicks/P&G absent) bdsmovement.net