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About us

Principal® Foundation is committed to removing barriers and enabling people and communities to build financially secure futures.
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Our grants

Principal® Foundation grants help people pursue financial success on their own terms.
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Our stories

Explore inspiring stories of how people and communities supported by Principal® Foundation are navigating the path to a better financial future.

Principal Foundation aims to eliminate barriers to financial security and expand access to resources that build stronger communities and brighter futures.

Every day, people around the world face impossible financial decisions. By ensuring access to essential needs, fostering social and cultural connections, and promoting financial inclusion, we can shape and support the journey to financial security.
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Ensuring access to essential needs

Meeting our most essential needs is where the path to a better financial future begins. Principal Foundation invests in grantees that help ensure families around the world don’t have to worry about whether they will have a roof over their head, food on the table, or the support needed to recover following a natural disaster.

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Fostering social and cultural connections

Arts and culture bind communities together. They shape our lives in innumerable ways—inspiring creativity, sparking collaboration, and nurturing social and cultural connections that create fertile ground for individual growth and economic development. The aim of Principal Foundation is to see the arts and creative sectors embraced as a critical social, economic, and development partner.

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Promoting financial inclusion

Access to financial education, services, and resources remains out of reach for too many around the world. By addressing the gaps and systemic barriers that prevent access to these tools and resources, Principal Foundation can help shape a financial system that works for everyone.

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Principal Foundation global footprint

140+ charitable organizations supported in 2023

36+ years in operation

$30m+ invested in two years, impacting more than 8 million people

Footnotes

As of 2023.

Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc. (“Principal® Foundation”) is a duly recognized 501(c)(3) entity focused on providing philanthropic support to organizations that build financial security in the communities where Principal Financial Group, Inc. (“Principal”) operates. While Principal Foundation receives funding from Principal, Principal Foundation is a distinct, independent, charitable entity. Principal Foundation does not practice any form of investment advisory services and is not authorized to do so.

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