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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
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $507,376, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,242,868 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $735,492 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $210k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $123k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
$6,819
Median grant
21
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA INC: $10k → 12%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $10k → 8%GREENSBURG YMCA: $7k → 10%HEART & HANDS WORKING TOGETHER: $7k → 11%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $8k → 12%FLATBUSH YMCA: $5k → 20%ARLINGTON-MANSFIELD AREA YMCA: $5k → 11%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $300k → 14%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%HAYES-TAYLOR MEMORIAL YMCA: $10k → 16%AHA INC: $6k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DENVER: $14k → 12%LAKE COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $7k → 9%CITY KIDS CARE INC: $7k → 19%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WENATCHEE: $7k → 9%THE COFFEE OASIS: $10k → 10%MISSION COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER OF SPOKANE WASHINGTON: $5k → 12%SAGE YMCA OF METRO CHICAGO: $5k → 6%CARRIE'S KIDS INC: $10k → 10%ARMED SERVICES YMCA: $100k → 6%THE Y IN CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $6k → 11%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10k → 13%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC: $5k → 12%HEART & HANDS WORKING TOGETHER: $6k → 11%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $6k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $5k → 21%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DENVER: $7k → 12%THE COFFEE OASIS: $8k → 10%CARRIE'S KIDS INC: $5k → 10%ARMED SERVICES YMCA: $50k → 6%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $5k → 11%YMCA OF THE USA: $1.0M → 14%YMCA OF THE USA: $500k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC TOTAL: $46k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%YMCA OF THE USA: $249k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%WOODFIELD AREA CHILDREN'S ORGANIZATION: $5k → 14%AHFOUT OF THE CLOSET: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of The Jcpenney Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 7%.

The Jcpenney Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 38 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

38
85

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.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
2
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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3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Boys and Girls Clubs of King County

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

Recreation & Sports
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Contra Costa; 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.
05the grantee network

156 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/156
Grantees still filing
97/156
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Council of YMCAs of the USA: $1,749,421 · Human ServicesNational Council of YMCAs of the USAEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $327,694 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $210,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapter…ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA: $150,000 · Human ServicesARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA+30 more: $296,909 · Human Services+30 moreAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $631,000 · OtherAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARSNATIONAL PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL PAN-HELLENIC COU…MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $65,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · Other+41 more: $484,362 · Other+41 moreDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMBUILDERS FOU…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $181,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentALLIANCE FOR A HE…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC: $34,500 · Youth Development+44 more: $405,890 · Youth Development+44 moreFeeding America: $275,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $11,422 · Food & NutritionSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $150,000 · Arts & CultureJC PENNEY HOMESTEAD: $78,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHT: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $20,475 · Arts & CultureSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $75,000 · PhilanthropyJEWELERS FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 · PhilanthropyFONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO: $21,379 · PhilanthropyASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE: $16,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $9,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $8,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY: $7,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCommunities in Schools of the Big Country: $31,767 · EducationBroward Education Foundation Inc: $25,000 · EducationSimon Youth Foundation Inc: $25,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BARACK OBAMA MALE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $22,750 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $20,000 · EducationREADY READERS: $9,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE COASTAL BEND: $5,000 · Education
Human Services$2,734,024Other$1,330,362Youth Development$921,390Food & Nutrition$286,422Arts & Culture$263,475Philanthropy$166,379Education$138,517

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Council of YMCAs of the USA: $1,749,421 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $631,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $327,694 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $210,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $181,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $150,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA: $150,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJC PENNEY HOMESTEAD: $78,000 over 7y, 98% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $46,462 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION: $42,497 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $36,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC: $34,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCommunities in Schools of the Big Country: $31,767 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Spokane County: $27,732 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC: $26,900 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWELERS FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSimon Youth Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $24,442 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO: $21,379 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc: $20,753 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DENVER: $20,360 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston: $20,028 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Valley Boys & Girls Club Inc: $19,379 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COFFEE OASIS: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE: $16,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF VISALIA: $15,949 over 2y, 16% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $15,757 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAssistance League of Riverside California: $15,693 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCARRIES KIDS INC: $15,284 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSE OF COMPASSION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLITTLE LAMBS OF EVANSVILLE INC: $14,193 over 1y, 21% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $13,735 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS AND HANDS WORKING TOGETHER: $13,662 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $13,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP: $12,249 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Boys & Girls Clubs of…Boys & Girls Clubs of…Dick's Sporting Goods…Inspire Brands Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…The Gap FoundationAT&T FoundationNational Council of Y…Dollar General Litera…Rite Aid Healthy Futu…Carmax FoundationPacific Youth Foundat…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Jcpenney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jcpenney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc: 0% of income from government
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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 151 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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