Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
260593784
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-PF 2011
Location
Canton, MA, USA
Phone
7817373000
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$14,166,123
Expenses
$13,525,124
Assets
$11,607,120
Liabilities
$3,950,325

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mollie Collum (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Justin Ackerman (Director)
  • Suzanne Andrade (Director)
  • David Baumgartner (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

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.

What it reported doing in 2025

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.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.2%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 78.2%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 93.2%; rating input score 93; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.2% of revenue deployed · 78.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.6M reported
  • Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 345 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 305 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.