 The Smithfield Foods Foundation, established in 2002, is a non-profit organization that acts as the philanthropic wing of Smithfield Foods, dedicated primarily to providing scholarships to the children and grandchildren of Smithfield employees.The foundation gave $5 million to Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, to establish the Luter School of Business, and in 2006 gave $5 million to the University of Virginia Cancer Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.It also supported its "learners to leaders" programs, begun in 2006, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Denison, Iowa; and Norfolk, Virginia.