Healthcare Research

A key part of our communities work involves supporting organizations that deliver services to families and children when they are facing health challenges and life-threatening illnesses, including funding organizations with missions aimed at spurring advancements in care and cures. Our Associates, our customers, and their families often have a personal connection to a health-related cause and are eager to participate in volunteer opportunities and join in fundraising efforts that help affected individuals and families.

For more than three decades, TJX has supported the Dimock Center, a community health center recognized nationally as a model for the delivery of comprehensive health and human services in an urban community. Dimock provides Massachusetts residents access to high-quality, low-cost health care and whole person services. Through sponsorship and Associate volunteerism, TJX has helped Dimock increase access to education and other opportunities for more than 1,000 children and families through their early childhood education programs and family shelter. We have also supported Dimock’s substance use, mental health, and trauma recovery programs, which work to improve access to care and critical resources to help individuals progress with their recovery. In Fiscal 2023, TJX was the Presenting Sponsor of Dimock’s annual Steppin’ Out event, which raises critical funds to support all of the organization’s programs. Our partnership also included, once again, bringing a “Stuff the Bus” program to Dimock’s campus in partnership with Save the Children. This program provided more than 2,000 backpacks to children and families from the Dimock community. TJX Associates also supported Dimock families through TJX’s annual Giving Tree Program, which allowed Associates to donate gifts to patients and their families to help ensure they all received something over the holidays.

For over 30 years, Marshalls has partnered with JDRF in the U.S. to improve the lives of children and adults living with type 1 diabetes and to support JDRF's search to find a cure. Through an annual in-store fundraising campaign and support of other local JDRF events, we are helping to fund exciting new research and support programs. We are proud to have been named a Diamond Partner, helping to fund research that may one day eliminate this disease. Marshalls has also raised funds and awareness through in-store fundraising programs to benefit the Alzheimer's Association and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

HomeGoods has been “Helping Families Fight Cancer” for over two decades in partnership with the Jimmy Fund, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Over the years, our Associates have raised millions of dollars for this great cause. HomeGoods and Homesense stores have sold reusable shopping bags designed by patients, with 50 cents of every 99-cent bag going to the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber, and have also collected customer contributions during checkout. Our support has also included participation in Jimmy Fund walks and various sponsorships over the years.

For many years, T.K. Maxx customers and Associates have raised millions for Cancer Research UK for Children & Young People and Enable Ireland. In Fiscal 2023, we continued our ongoing support which included charity merchandise sales, and our Give Up Clothes for Good program in the U.K. and Ireland. Give Up Clothes for Good encourages people to drop off their high-quality used clothes, accessories, and homeware at our stores for donation. Over the past 15+ years, over 2 million bags of clothing and household goods have been collected. The partnerships have raised more than $55 million for Cancer Research UK for Children & Young People since 2004, and more than $4.3 million since 1997 for Enable Ireland to support children and young people with disabilities. T.K. Maxx is the biggest corporate supporter of Cancer Research UK's research into children's cancers, funding life-saving research to help more children and young people survive cancer with a better quality of life.

Making A Difference: Supporting Local Charities

In the United States and Europe, TJX Associates can nominate charities within their local communities to receive funding from one of our regional foundations. We believe that supporting Associate-nominated charities makes our philanthropic efforts more meaningful to our Associates and it adds value in our local communities. In Europe, the T.K. Maxx and Homesense Foundation has supported local charities across Europe through our Community Fund. In Fiscal 2023, the Community Fund supported more than 1,650 Associate-nominated charities, which have included focuses on education, food insecurity, and disabilities – as well as charities focused on medical research and children and families affected by terminal illness.

Our Support Includes: