TJX has long been committed to helping unlock educational opportunities for at-risk youth and vulnerable young people to support them in reaching their full potential. Over the years, our efforts have focused on quality enrichment and extracurricular programs that provide skills, resources, and opportunities to support school and career success in the hopes of helping to create a brighter future for children, teens, and young adults. In Fiscal 2025, we worked with a variety of organizations and funded education and workforce training opportunities that impacted more than 2 million young people.

Since 1984, TJ Maxx has proudly supported Save the Children U.S. to help improve the lives of children and families, making Fiscal 2025 its 40th year of sponsorship. Over the years, the relationship has grown to include an annual in-store fundraising campaign and donations of profits from co-branded reusable bags. TJ Maxx and Save the Children have also established various custom programs and initiatives, including Save the Children’s Early Steps to School Success program and TJ Maxx’s Maxx You Grants dedicated to childcare assistance. Read more about TJ Maxx’s partnership with Save the Children and its work to support women and caregivers in our Empowering Women section.

TJX has worked with Jumpstart, an early education organization in the U.S., for more than five years. Jumpstart provides programming to preschool children in underserved communities to help them enter kindergarten prepared to succeed. TJX is the exclusive presenting sponsor of Jumpstart's annual Read for the Record campaign, a program that engages over two million children, adults, and educators across the country and around the world to read the same book on the same day to help promote early literacy and increase access to high-quality books. In Fiscal 2025, our sponsorship included all 50 states and Puerto Rico to help achieve a distribution of approximately 150,000 copies of the campaign book.

Sierra aims to help make the outdoors accessible to all. As part of this, Sierra focuses on helping children get outside through play and activity by providing support to nonprofits, including KABOOM! and the National Park Foundation, that help children get outside. For KABOOM!, Sierra helps fund programs that are committed to providing safe places for all children to play and foster a sense of belonging within their communities. In Fiscal 2025, Sierra partnered with KABOOM! to build a new playground – the sixth playground that Sierra has helped support – in Baltimore, Maryland. The playground started with imaginative visions drawn by children in the area to update an outdated playground and is now a place for Baltimore children to play. The playground was built in alignment with KABOOM!’s 25 in 5 initiative, which aims to build playgrounds in 25 markets over five years. Sierra also partners with the National Park Foundation to support its Open Outdoors for Kids program, which creates opportunities for children to explore national parks through immersive experiences.

TJX has a long history of working with underserved youth in cities around the U.S. to help teach them job readiness skills and expose them to career paths in retail. In Fiscal 2025, we continued to support Junior Achievement, a national provider of work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy skills for young people. Their goal is to give young people the tools they need to own their economic success, plan for their futures, and make smart academic and economic choices. TJX Associates have the opportunity to volunteer in Junior Achievement programs.

TJX Canada is proud to support the Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust (CCLET), a nonprofit research and public educational organization which aims to encourage, promote, and protect the rights and freedoms for all people in Canada, including newcomers. TJX Canada’s funding has enabled CCLET to work with settlement organizations, public libraries, and schools to bring rights-based education to communities across Canada. Through this support, CCLET was also able to develop a digital education library program, serving as a free interactive workshop to provide newcomers with a better understanding of their rights. In Fiscal 2025, TJX Canada’s support allowed CCLET to deliver workshops in-person and/or virtually to British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.

In Fiscal 2025, Winners and Marshalls in Canada supported Orange Shirt Day and the Orange Shirt Society. Orange Shirt Day is an Indigenous-led grassroots commemorative day intended to raise awareness of the individual, family, and community inter-generational impacts of Indian residential schools in Canada and to promote and create awareness of the concept that ‘Every Child Matters.’ In Fiscal 2025, Winners and Marshalls in Canada partnered with Anishinaabe Indigenous artist Jenny Kay Dupuis (JKD) to create an exclusive Orange Shirt Day t-shirt design, “Threads of Unity: Every Child Matters.” The design was available for purchase in Canada in Winners and Marshalls stores and 100% of the profits from the sales were donated to the Orange Shirt Society.

TJX Europe has been a proud partner of The King’s Trust (formerly known as The Prince’s Trust) for 10 years. The partnership supports The King’s Trust in its Achieve, Change a Girl’s Life, and Get Into programs in the U.K. The Achieve program is a development program designed to help young people re-engage with and succeed in their education by building their confidence and skills. The Get Into program provides training, development, and employment opportunities to help disadvantaged young people build a better future. In partnership with The King’s Trust, TJX Europe runs Get Into programs across four different areas: Retail, Loss Prevention, Distribution, and Buying Operations – with over 80% of Fiscal 2025 participants going on to be offered employment with TJX Europe.

TJX Europe also partners with Stowarzyszenie WIOSNA in Poland. Fiscal 2025 marks the 10th year TJX Europe has supported their Academy of the Future program to provide one-to-one educational and mentoring support for disadvantaged children and young people. Additionally, since 2010, TJX Europe has partnered with Children for a Better World in Germany to help children achieve their potential through their Lunch Table and Discoverer Activities programs. These programs take place at local child and youth welfare institutions, where children affected by poverty are provided with a hot meal and empowered to expand their knowledge on nutrition, improve their life skills, and strengthen their self-esteem.

TK Maxx in Australia supports The Smith Family, a national, independent children's education charity that has been working for over 100 years to help address educational inequality. Since 2022, TK Maxx in Australia has helped provide support for over 1,000 Learning for Life students. Thanks to the generous donations of TK Maxx customers and TJX Australia Associates, each scholarship provides a student in need with financial support for education essentials, personal support for the student and their family, and practical support through learning and mentoring programs.

TJX’s commitment to supporting inclusion and diversity and increased access to opportunities for all extends into the work we do in our communities. In the U.S., TJX has partnered with a number of nonprofits, including The Posse Foundation, Bottom Line, and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), to support their work in helping connect high school and college students with internship and early career opportunities. In Europe, the TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation provides funding to various nonprofits across Europe for projects and initiatives that promote inclusion and diversity. These projects and initiatives provide support for gender equality, the LGBTQ+ community, under resourced communities, mental health, and people with disabilities in local communities. TJX Canada is proud to partner with Indspire, which aims to enrich Canada through Indigenous education and by inspiring achievement. In Fiscal 2025, the TJX Canada Foundation donated funds to Indspire to support several scholarships for high school and post-secondary Indigenous students in Canada.