Piggyback awards are funded by GFIA member companies for the benefit of their own employees.

The following companies are funding 2024 Piggyback Awards: 

• B & T's Grocery - [one $500 award]
• Diaz Foods - [one $1,500 award]
• Dill’s Food City - [two $1,000 awards]
• Food Depot - [twelve $1,000 awards]
• Food Lion LLC - [one $500 award]
• Helen Howell Memorial Scholarships (for Bryce Emory/Freshway Mkt) - [eight $1000 awards]
• Ira Higdon Grocery Company - [one $1,000 award]
• Johnnie Wiley Memorial Scholarships (for J & J Foods) - [three $3,000 awards]
• The Kroger Company -  [ten $500 awards]
• Robert K. Hoyle Memorial Scholarship (for The Kroger Company) - [one $2,000 award] 
• Ralph Gardner Memorial Scholarships (Milkco, Inc.) - [two $1,000 awards]
• Nam Dae Mun Farmers Market - [sixteen $1,500 awards]
• Nam Dae Mun Farmers Market - NDM Founders Scholarship [two $3,000 awards] 
• Ole Mexican Foods / Fuerza Olé Scholarship Fund: Up to $100,000 in program funding 
• Pepsi Beverages Company - [one $1,500 award]
• Piggly Wiggly Alabama Dist. Co - Tommy Milligan Scholarship [one $1,000 award] 
• Publix Super Markets - [seven $500 awards]
• Quality Foods, Inc. - [four $1,500 awards]
• RBG Foods - [three $1000 awards]
• Reynolds Foodliner, Inc. / Piggly Wiggly Scholarships - [two $1,000 awards]
• Wayfield Foods - [sixteen $1,500 awards]