California · Public charity
Bj's Restaurants Foundation
The bj's restaurant foundation is dedicated to support charities benefiting children's healthcare and education, with primary focus on the cystic fibrosis foundation.
- $311k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $168k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $73k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Bj's Restaurants Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $168k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $225k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $211k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $147k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $71k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $59k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Restaurant Foundation Inc | $112,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $98,661 | 4 | 0% |
| The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation | $96,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jessie Rees Foundation | $45,560 | 2 | 1% |
| Bjs Restaurants Inc | $43,264 | 2 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Orange County | $31,721 | 3 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $30,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bj's Restaurants Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Bj's Restaurants Foundation
- How much does Bj's Restaurants Foundation give?
- Bj's Restaurants Foundation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $168,051, out of $310,969 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bj's Restaurants Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are Bj's Restaurants Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: California Restaurant Foundation Inc ($112k), Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ($99k), The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ($96k).
- Does Bj's Restaurants Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bj's Restaurants Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Bj's Restaurants Foundation based?
- Bj's Restaurants Foundation is based in CA.
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