How much did The Jcpenney Foundation grant in FY2024?

The Jcpenney Foundation reported 42 itemized grants totaling $507,376, out of $1,242,868 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is The Jcpenney Foundation based?

The Jcpenney Foundation is based in TX.

The Jcpenney Foundation

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

The Jcpenney Foundation

To support america's diverse, working families with access to skill-building and resources that allow everyone to thrive.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$175k

Largest

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 FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$2.6MHuman Services$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$425kCommunity Improvement$382kEducation$330kFood & Nutrition$314kHealth$133kArts & Culture$117kOther$0

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 42 grants below total $507,376 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,242,868 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $735,492 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 $10k32 grants · $210k
$10k–50k9 grants · $123k
$50k–250k1 grant · $175k

$6,819

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FEEDING AMERICA	$175,000
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION	$22,300
HOUSTON FOOD BANK	$20,000
LITTLE LAMBS	$14,193
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY INC	$11,750
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN	$11,330
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN NC	$11,315
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TOLEDO	$10,984
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INC	$10,719
J C PENNEY HOMESTEAD INC	$10,000
FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC	$9,958
THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION	$9,607
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF UNIONINC	$9,519
CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC	$8,216
YMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC	$8,135

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of The Jcpenney Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 7% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Jcpenney Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.2M · 38 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.2M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+7%

Still filing today

100%

92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

National Council of YMCAs of the USA
2× · 2017–2018 · $1.7M · revenue +51%
AA
AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS
4× · 2017–2020 · $631k · revenue +103%
EA
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2018–2024 · $328k · revenue +188%

Funded once

AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
2× · 2018–2020 · $210k · revenue +9%
SU
STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK
3× · 2018–2020 · $150k · revenue -28%
AF
ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +116%

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.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development

The Boys & Girls Clubs Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those most in need of our services, to realize and develop their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens in a global society.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia Inc

To enable and inspire all young people, ages five to eighteen, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Youth Development

Boys and Girls Club of Augusta/Waynesboro

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of Bandera County

Enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible & caring citizens.

Recreation & Sports

Boys & Girls Clubs of the San Gorgonio Pass

To inspire and enable all young people especially those in need to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Education

Boys and Girls Clubs of King County

Youth health and social, educational, and character development of youth.

Recreation & Sports

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Red River Valley

At the boys & girls clubs of the red river valley, we offer innovative out-of-school time programs designed to help youth excel in school, develop strong leadership skills, and lead healthy, productive lives. our mission is to provide a…

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley

To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development

Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Carolina

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Northwoods Inc

To empower all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Billerica Inc

To enable all young people, especially those that need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Contra Costa and the most unlike its peers is Jc Penney Homestead. 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.

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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.6%1/164

the rest of the field

13%

240,395/1,819,401

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.

05the grantee network

156 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

154/156

Grantees still filing

96/156

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$2,734,024Other$1,330,362Youth Development$921,390Food & Nutrition$286,422Arts & Culture$263,475Philanthropy$166,379Education$138,517

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

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.

Boys & Girls Clubs of AmericaGA73.8× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Gap Foundation · AT&T Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Carmax Foundation · Pacific Youth 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 The Jcpenney 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 moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

71report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines