Basic Needs

Filling Critical Basic Needs Through Warm Meals, Clean Clothing, & a Safe Place to Sleep

In our communities around the world, many families find themselves unable to meet their basic needs. At TJX, we understand the importance of a warm meal, clean clothing, and a safe place to sleep. This is why we are passionate about supporting nonprofit organizations that help fill these critical basic needs for vulnerable families.

Since 2015, our U.S. retail chains, which today include TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, and Homesense, have teamed up each Thanksgiving season for an in-store fundraising campaign to support families in need of food assistance during the holidays. In Fiscal 2025, through this campaign, funds from our U.S. Foundation and customer donations were provided to Feeding America for distribution to 200 food banks. According to Feeding America, this translated into an estimated 28 million meals served to those in need. Through this campaign and other global efforts and partners, TJX helped provide 32 million meals to those in need in Fiscal 2025.

TJX has supported Operation Warm, a U.S. nonprofit that serves children in need through the gift of brand-new, high-quality coats and shoes, since 2003. Through Associate volunteer events and donations from The TJX Foundation, TJX continues to support Operation Warm to act on its mission of providing emotional and physical warmth, confidence to socialize and succeed, and hope for a brighter future through basic need programs and community resources for underserved children. In Fiscal 2025, across 16 events throughout the U.S., TJX Associates helped to provide coats to roughly 7,000 children in need.

Since 2019, TJX Canada has supported women in their communities through its charitable initiative, Find Your Stride®. As part of its efforts, TJX Canada has partnered with organizations working to help remove the complex barriers women may face in securing economic independence, including providing basic needs like clothing and safe housing.

Empowering Women

We support programs that provide services to support women facing adversity, ranging from help for those fleeing domestic violence, to offering education, training, and job placement resources.

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Empowering Women

We support programs that provide services to support women facing adversity, ranging from help for those fleeing domestic violence, to offering education, training, and job placement resources.

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TK Maxx and Homesense in the U.K. have partnered with Comic Relief for close to 20 years. TK Maxx and Homesense are official retailers for Comic Relief’s much-loved fundraising campaign to help children in need and to end child poverty, Red Nose Day. The Red Nose Day campaign aims to give children a better start in life by supporting parents, caregivers, and healthcare workers, and to provide communities with clean water and safe spaces for children to grow and thrive. Over the years, TK Maxx and Homesense have raised money for Red Nose Day through customer and Associate donations and by selling Red Nose Day merchandise, from which a portion of the sales go to the campaign. In Fiscal 2025, TK Maxx and Homesense partnered with Academy Award winning studio, Aardman, to create t-shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags, aprons, and mugs featuring beloved characters, including Wallace and Gromit, to help raise funds for the campaign.

FY25 Highlights

32 million

meals provided

TJX helped provide over 32 million meals through foundation grants and generous donations from our customers.1

600,000

shelter nights provided

TJX helped provide approximately 600,000 shelter nights through TJX foundation grants and in-store donations.1

390,000

units of product donated

TJX donated about 390,000 products to charity organizations.

Spotlight: Cradles to Crayons

In the U.S., TJX supports Cradles to Crayons, which serves children from birth through age 12 living in homeless shelters or low-income situations, and provides them with high-quality, essential items they need to thrive. In addition to TJX’s financial support, many of our Associates participate in engagement programs and mentoring opportunities with Cradles to Crayons. In Fiscal 2025, over 1,600 TJX Associates across the U.S. volunteered their time to support Cradles to Crayons through several events and initiatives, including backpack-a-thons in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston. In addition, in Fiscal 2025, TJX continued to help Cradles to Crayons address clothing insecurity through its new Giving Factory Direct program, which delivers clothing to families facing clothing insecurity. TJX’s financial support of Giving Factory Direct helped Cradles to Crayons improve the donation process and enable families to receive high-quality essentials quickly and efficiently.

1Impact data provided by charity partners.

Updated July 2025