Jack in the Box Foundation
San Diego, CA · EIN 33-0776076. Reported 49 grants totalling $2,978,778 to 43 organizations across tax years 2022-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Jack in the Box Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a corporate foundation (NTEE T21).
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 53% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 100% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $1,585,278. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share Our Strength | Washington, DC | $1,585,278 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of San Diego County | San Diego, CA | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Monarch School Project | San Diego, CA | $306,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County Inc | San Diego, CA | $161,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pro Kids Golf Academy Inc | San Diego, CA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| YMCA of San Diego County | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| West Side Helping Hand | Corpus Christi, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Pasoans Fighting Hunger | El Paso, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Journey to Dream Foundation | Lewisville, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oakland Elizabeth House | Oakland, CA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Harlingen | Harlingen, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Darrington Food Bank Foundation | Darrington, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Diabetes Prevention and Aid Fund Inc | Nogales, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| German St Vincent Orphan Association | Normandy, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Hayden, ID | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Here to Serve Inc | Monrovia, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Illumination Health Home | Santa Ana, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kandelia | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Make a Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc | Scottsdale, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp Inc | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northeast Youth and Family Services | Spokane, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sam Houston High School Alumni Association | Arlington, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Special Education Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Backcountry Communities Thriving | Julian, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Borderland Rainbow Center | El Paso, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bright Futures for Youth | Grass Valley, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cavett Kids Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Drug Awareness Foundation | Beverly Hills, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foothills Food Bank | Carefree, AZ | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina Inc | Waxhaw, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mentors Care | Midlothian, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Partnership With Native Americans | Addison, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reading Partners | Oakland, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Self Enhancement Inc | Portland, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sisu Youth Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Angels Foster Family Agency | San Diego, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Together We Rise Corporation | Brea, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Way Back Inn Foundation | Renton, WA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wedontwaste Inc | Denver, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Alliance | Hollister, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League of Miracles Inc | Mooresville, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
6 of 43 (14%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 43 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | $508,000 | $62,500 |
| 2023 | 43 | $2,470,778 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
55% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Jack in the Box Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2022-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 43 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 9357 Spectrum Center Blvd, San Diego, CA, 92123.
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