Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc
Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,075,254 to it, the largest being RICH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($275,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Foundation is established to bring together a wide network of stakeholders, including Dunkin and Baskin-Robbins franchisees, suppliers, crew members, and employees, to engage in fundraising and grant making to charitable organizations that provide joy to sick and hungry kids. The Foundation is also established to more generally support those who serve in their communities in an effort to improve community strength and capacity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Foundation continued its grantmaking activities to ensure the basic needs of communities through hunger relief and children's health. For the period covered by this Form 990, the Foundation paid more than $10 million across over 300 organizations to provide relief to sick and hungry children and families.
$10,581,337 spentof which $10,198,247 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,581,337.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $6.4M to $9.1M (+42%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
110% of Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mollie Collum
Executive Director
Board chair
Victor Carvalho
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $25k → $203k.
3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 42% · 2021 69% · 2022 44% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc has grown faster than half of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc?
- Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,075,254 to it, the largest being RICH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($275,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,075,254 in grants to Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc?
- RICH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing