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Funding Guidelines

The Jack’s Family Fund is a non-profit charitable organization established to provide emergency financial assistance to members of the communities that Jack’s Family Restaurants (JFR) serve. To learn if you live or work in one of the communities we serve, please use our location finder.

Fund grants are made to assist those who have temporarily found themselves in need, but under normal circumstances are self-sustaining.

Our grants assist with:

  • Immediate, short- term needs of individuals who may be victims of disasters or other emergency hardship situations including floods, fires, riots, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and similar large-scale events, or
  • Emergency hardship caused by illness, death, accident, violent crime or other types of personal injury.
  • Community 501(c)(3) organizations working to respond to these types of needs on a broad scale.

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Types of expenses grants may be awarded for include (but are not limited to):

  • funeral expenses
  • past due utilities (electric, water, natural gas)
  • past due rent/mortgage
  • emergency housing

Assistance Grant Limits:

  • one assistance grant in any 12-month time frame (based on date of the award, not date of application)
  • lifetime assistance is limited to a maximum of $5,000

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Grants are not awarded to help with:

  • Paying off credit cards, pay-day loans, or title loans
  • Fees or Tuition for school
  • Making car payments
  • Down payments on a vehicle
  • Fuel
  • Cable, internet, cell phone and other subscriptions

Grants from the Fund are not intended to replace personal or homeowners insurance, federal disaster relief or other types of aid, but rather to assist on an immediate and short-term basis when other sources of assistance are not available.

Are you eligible to apply?

Click here to answer a few questions to determine if your situation fits within our funding guidelines.

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