In 1998, Joan Kroc donated $87 million (equivalent to $ million in ) to the Salvation Army to build and endow the first Kroc Center in
San Diego,
California, on what was an abandoned grocery store and other empty land. The center opened in June 2002. Currently, it is home to the
American Basketball Association's San Diego Wildcats. Upon her death in 2003, Kroc bequeathed $1.5 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ) to The Salvation Army solely for the purpose of establishing centers of opportunity, education, recreation and inspiration throughout the United States to be known as "Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers". The Kroc Center in
San Francisco, California, broke ground in June 2006, and the Kroc Center in
Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Center: A Center for Worship and Education, broke ground in 2007. The San Francisco Kroc Center received $53 million (equivalent to $ million in ). , there are 25 Kroc Centers across 20 US states, as well as one in
Puerto Rico. ==Kroc Center work==