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Massachusetts · Private foundation

The Tjx Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
86
Itemized grants FY2024
72
Organizations funded FY2023
97%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$275,000
Organizations funded a year
72 to 86
FY2022 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2024
$77M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 97% of the organizations The Tjx Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving79$1.3M91%
FY202372$1.2M97%
FY202286$842kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$637kRecreation & Sports$506kFood & Nutrition$468kYouth Development$352kHealth$251kEducation$183kPhilanthropy$162kHousing & Shelter$143kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC$275,000
THE PETE FRATES #3 FUND INC$100,000
HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC$50,000
PROJECT BREAD - THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC$50,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$50,000
GREATER BOSTON PARENTS, FAMILIES & FRIENDS OF LESBIANS & GAYS INC$47,500
COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC$35,000
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$25,000
CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION$20,000
Effingham County Victim Assistance Program$20,000
FAMILY CONTINUITY PROGRAM INC$15,000
MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN$15,000
BOSTON BALLET FOUNDATION INC$15,000
EAST SIDE HOUSE INC$15,000
Boston Ballet Foundation Inc$15,000

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About The Tjx Foundation Inc

How much does The Tjx Foundation Inc give?
The Tjx Foundation Inc reported 86 itemized grants totaling $1,345,500, out of $23,322,493 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 86 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does The Tjx Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (0%), Recreation & Sports (0%), Food & Nutrition (0%).
Does The Tjx Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 97% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Tjx Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Tjx Foundation Inc based?
The Tjx Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 228 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $26M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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