· Private foundation
The Joy Box Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCK RIVER CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| STATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $12,500 |
| ROCKFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| ALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| DARE TO SERVE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| WILLOW WOMENS CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RRROCK RIVER CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2025 · $84k · revenue +3%
- SYSTATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST8× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +277%
- ACALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SGST GERMAIN COVENANT CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
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.
To challenge young people to know christ as lord, apply god's truth in all areas of life, love others sacrifically, and achieve the highest level of knowledge and skill in order to serve god and others
Building lives on the rock.
Education
Spread the gospel to college and high school students, athletes, coaches, and faculty.
Christian growth through camping experiences.
Supporting and encouraging families worldwide to serve and share Jesus through work, worship, and the Word.
To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations
Modeling Christ through biblical counseling and biblical counseling training
Real Life Ministries invites couples to take the next step in their relationship with God, themselves and others. This is done through individual and couples counseling as well as life coaching. Real Life offers teaching and training…
The word restored means to be reestablished, refreshed, and revived. we at rcc believe that all of us have blown it, but desire something more in life than regret or mediocrity. weve discovered that more is a relationship with jesus, gods…
To show people who jesus really is
Rockbridge seminary is an accredited degree-granting institution of higher learning that exists to develop servant leaders for christian ministry through quality distance educational experiences that allow them to study and practice…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ROCK RIVER CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds DARE TO SERVE ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds Links Players International Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Ahlstrand Family Foundation · John T Wolf Charitable Trust II · Guy Reno Family Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Joy Box Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joy Box Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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