Jays Care Foundation Snapshot

Now for the last in the series this year, and saving the best for last: the Jays Care Foundation.

Jays Care runs away with the top spot with an IMPACT+ score of 304.3. They are tops in revenue and grants paid. Jays Care is both a grant maker and a program operator, with programs including RBI baseball, the Indigenous Rookie League, Girls at Bat, Challenger Baseball and Field of Dreams, and about 40 full-time staff.

Their efforts are buoyed by their league-leading 50/50 raffle, which operates more like a national lottery than any other team’s 50/50, selling to buyers well beyond Ontario. To the Jays’ credit, they take full advantage of it.

In 2024, net 50/50 income was $6.9M USD, or 52% of all revenue. That is the highest share of the 21 teams with reported net gaming income, where the median is about 25%, though the Rays are close at 52%. In dollars the Jays stand alone: their $6.9M is nearly 2.5 times the next highest, the Dodgers at $2.8M. The share has moved around: 44% in 2021, 54% in 2022, 61% in 2023, and 52% in 2024.

Then, while this is not reflected in the data I have yet, the 2025 World Series run changed the scale. Charity Intelligence’s analysis of the foundation’s Canadian filings (in Canadian dollars) shows net lottery revenue of C$45.5M for fiscal 2025, up 381% from C$9.5M a year earlier, and total revenue of C$54.6M. That is 83% from the raffle. Spending did not scale with it: total spending was about C$20.0M, and reserves more than doubled to roughly C$59.8M.

The 2026 season shows how much of that was the playoff run. Across eight campaigns and no per-game draws, the 2026 raffle took in C$40.3M gross. Half went to winners and C$20.2M went to the foundation, before costs, plus $30,000 in separate cash bonus prizes. That is about 63% less than the foundation’s C$54.1M share in 2025, and still well above 2024, when the foundation’s share was roughly C$11.8M by my conversion of the USD figure.

I expect the fiscal 2025 filing to show net assets more than doubling, since it is difficult to scale up a programs and grants operation as quickly as the money is coming in. The question is whether spending catches up in 2026.

Unlike some other winners, their recognition (twice-over) through the Selig Award makes complete sense, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they win again soon. Congratulations, Jays Care and keep up the great work!

A note on timing: every figure in this series comes from each foundation’s fiscal-year filing, not the baseball season. The Jays Care fiscal year ends in November, and Jays Care reports in Canadian dollars. Figures through 2024 are converted to US dollars per Form 990 instructions. The fiscal 2025 figures are Charity Intelligence’s adjusted Canadian dollar data, and the 2026 raffle figures are season totals before costs, not filed numbers.