JDJ Charitable Foundation

The foundation states its mission as providing financial assistance and support to the sick and underprivileged in the surrounding community. Its website describes funding cancer research, helping families with cancer-related expenses, offering tuition assistance to eligible students affected by cancer, providing adaptive and power wheelchairs for children, and supporting fellow nonprofits through an RFP program.

The website reports that its cancer scholarship program has awarded $72,000 to 13 students and offers scholarships at the $2,500 level. Applicants must be graduating high school seniors attending a public or private high school in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, or Pennsylvania, plan to attend a four-year university, and submit an essay, transcript, and recommendation letter. These are scholarships for individual participants, not grants to outside organizations.

For the RFP program, the website says eligible applicants are 501(c)(3) nonprofits aligned with the mission of helping sick and underprivileged people in the surrounding community. In 2022, listed grantees included New York Road Runners, whose stated mission is to improve community health and well-being through inclusive running experiences; the Permobil Foundation, which says it works to enhance quality of life through community support, employee engagement, and grant funding; Felician University, which describes its mission as providing learning experiences and academic and student development programs; and Fordham University, which describes its mission as discovery and transmission of learning through research and education.