· Public charity
Achievement Foundation Inc
The achievement foundation, by using its financial resources, dedicates itself to developing a better understanding of the free enterprise system by young people.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $195,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $224,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Junior Achievement USA | $195,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +170%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +13%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTHone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -17%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -3%
- JAJunior Achievement of Alaska Incone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ja programs taught in k-12 classrooms and afterschool programs teach students about economics, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and work readiness. (continued on schedule o)
Junior achievement is dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their futures, and make smart academic and economic choices. ja empowers and inspires students through…
Junior achievement's mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. junior achievement teaches students in grades k-12 how to manage money, how to prepare for a career or college, and how to run a business.…
The mission of junior achievement is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. through a network of dedicated classroom mentors from the business community, junior achievement works with students and teachers in…
Junior achievement accelerates economic opportunity and mobility for youth through cross-sector collaboration to deliver innovative solutions that improve educational and economic outcomes for students.
Empowering young people to own their economic success through work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy.
We are empowering young people to own their economic success. Our volunteer-based K-12 programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire kids to dream big and reach…
Junior Achievement of Central Illinois inspires and prepares young people to succeed in the global economy. Our volunteer-delivered, experiential programs give students knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness and…
Junior achievement of north louisiana's purpose is to help young people understand the economics of life through hands-on experiences in the classroom. janla's mission is to ensure that every child in north louisiana has a fundamental…
The organization's mission is to prepare and inspire youth to succeed in a global economy through program experiences that focus on financial literacy, career awareness and workforce readiness, and entrepreneurial thinking. this year the…
Junior achievement (ja) is a worldwide organization that inspires and prepares young people to succeed in a global economy. they do this by providing work-readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship programs to students in…
To encourage, promote, supervise, and develop educational programs designed to give youths experience in industry and business by making it possible for them to learn by doing, to provide them with an opportunity to learn about the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of East Tenninc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TENNINC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Alaska Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Junior Achievement USA · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Achievement Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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