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Jack in the Box Foundation

The JACK IN THE BOX FOUNDATION's mission is to help people access and explore life outside the box.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.6MInternational$400kEducation$324kYouth Development$274kHuman Services$100kRecreation & Sports$91kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kHealth$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 43 grants below total $2,470,778 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,748,057 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $277,279 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $287k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHARE OUR STRENGTHNO KID HUNGRY$1,585,278
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC$325,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$86,500
MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT$53,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC$25,000
WEST SIDE HELPING HAND$25,000
YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$25,000
EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER$15,000
JOURNEY TO DREAM$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII$15,000
OAKLAND ELIZABETH HOUSE$12,000
NORTHEAST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
BORDERLANDS PRODUCE RESCUE$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH: $8k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $25k → 11%DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%JOURNEY TO DREAM: $15k → 8%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $8k → 14%SISU YOUTH SERVICES: $8k → 16%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $25k → 11%HERE TO SERVE: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%KANDELIA: $10k → 9%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK: $8k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
OR
IN
CA
CO
MO
AZ
NC
DC
HI
OK
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 6 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
37

Total granted

$1.0M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

100%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $162k · revenue +29%
  • PK
    PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +10%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    one grant, 2024 · $1.6M · revenue +14%
  • WS
    WEST SIDE HELPING HAND
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • EP
    EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
2
Los Angeles Youth Network

Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…

Human Services
3
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
4
StandUp for Kids

The mission of StandUp for Kids is to end the cycle of youth homelessness. We do this every day in cities across America. We carry out our mission through our volunteers, who go to the streets in order to find, stabilize and otherwise help…

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5
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
6
Friends of the Children - Sw Washington

We commit to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from kindergarten through high school…

Youth Development
7
Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development
8
Youth Eastside Services

Youth Eastside Services (YES) is a lifeline for kids and families coping with challenges such as emotional distress, substance abuse, and violence. Through intervention, outreach and prevention, YES build confidence and responsibility,…

Health
9
Kidworks Community Development Corp

Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.

Human Services
10
Kidvantage

KidVantage helps kids be safe, nourished, and healthy by providing diapers, formula, car seats, clothing, and more. KidVantage protects and promotes healthy development for kids (through age 12) by collecting, purchasing, and distributing…

Human Services
11
California Young World Inc

To provide a quality child development program in an atmosphere conducive to the development of the whole child.

Human Services
12
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Borderland Rainbow Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesYouth Development CentersYouth Development ServicesChristian Youth CampsCommunity Food PantriesAffordable Housing Construc…Immigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringLgbtq+ Community SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Ymca Youth DevelopmentYouth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr16%56%35–55yr15%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,958

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
13/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHARE OUR STRENGTH — $1,585,278 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $161,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC+17 more — $174,500 · Other+17 moreJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $400,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEM…MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $306,500 · EducationMONARCH SCH…+1 more — $7,500 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $55,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOURNEY TO DREAM FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesKANDELIA — $10,000 · Human ServicesIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesHERE TO SERVE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSISU YOUTH INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesBRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH — $7,500 · Human ServicesPartnership With Native Americans — $7,500 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $7,500 · Human ServicesDRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Human ServicesPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsTOGETHER WE RISE — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $15,000 · Food & NutritionDIABETES PREVENTION AND AID FUND — $10,000 · Food & NutritionDARRINGTON FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWASTE INC — $7,500 · Food & NutritionNortheast Youth and Family Services — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENTORS CARE FKA MOVEMENT TOWARD A FUTURE INC — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAVETT KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentLEAGUE OF MIRACLES INC — $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,921,278International$400,000Education$314,000Human Services$187,500Recreation & Sports$82,500Food & Nutrition$42,500Youth Development$31,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $1,585,278 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $400,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $306,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $161,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE HELPING HAND — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOURNEY TO DREAM FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOakland Elizabeth House — $12,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKANDELIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe German St Vincent Orphan Association — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTH IDAHO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNortheast Youth and Family Services — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HARLINGEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIABETES PREVENTION AND AID FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARRINGTON FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetMT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHERE TO SERVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBackcountry Communities Thriving — $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTORS CARE FKA MOVEMENT TOWARD A FUTURE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSISU YOUTH INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoothills Food Bank — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAVETT KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWAY BACK INN FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH ALLIANCE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF MIRACLES INC — $6,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Blackbaud Giving …Walter J & Betty C Za…The Cushman FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…The Nordson Corporati…Jewish Community Foun…Enterprise Holdings F…Dick's Sporting Goods…Sempra FoundationThe Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC14× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jack in the Box Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp — 18% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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