How are the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Kellogg Company related?
The two organizations are completely independent of each other. The misconception that the two are related is understandable because of their names and because the headquarters of both organizations are in Battle Creek, Michigan. Though they are and always have been separate organizations, they do have a shared history in that both were founded by cereal industry pioneer Will Keith Kellogg. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s original assets, the benevolence of W.K. Kellogg, consisted of Kellogg Company stock.
