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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.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$195k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.1MEducation$320kInternational$293k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $195,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $224,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$195,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Junior Achievement USA$195,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Junior Achievement of Delaware Inc: $25k → 10%Junior Achievement of Western Massachusettes Inc: $25k → 17%Junior Achievement of North Inc: $25k → 14%Junior Achievement of San Diego County Inc: $25k → 11%Junior Achievement of the Chisholm Trail Inc: $25k → 11%Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes In: $25k → 11%Junior Achievement of Western Connecticut Inc: $25k → 9%Junior Achievement of East Tennessee Inc: $25k → 13%Junior Achievement USA: $195k → 9%Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio Inc: $25k → 13%Junior Achievement of Alaska Inc: $8k → 10%Junior Achievement of Central Maryland Inc: $35k → 11%Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana Inc: $25k → 15%Junior Achievement of Delaware Inc: $25k → 10%Junior Achievement of San Diego County Inc: $25k → 11%Junior Achievement of the Chisholm Trail Inc: $25k → 11%Junior Achievement of Michigan Great Lakes Inc: $25k → 11%Junior Achievement of East Tennessee Inc: $25k → 13%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $170k → 9%Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio Inc: $25k → 13%Junior Achievement of Central Maryland: $35k → 11%Junior Achievement of Kentuckyana Inc: $25k → 15%Junior Achievement USA: $53k → 9%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $53k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
MA
OH
CT
CA
CO
KY
MD
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TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 10 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$1.7M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-3%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
InternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +170%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +13%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -17%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -3%
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Alaska Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Junior Achievement of Greater Hampton Roads Inc

Ja programs taught in k-12 classrooms and afterschool programs teach students about economics, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and work readiness. (continued on schedule o)

International
2
Junior Achievement of Northeastern New York

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…

International
3
Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania Inc

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.…

International
4
Junior Achievement of Alabama Inc

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…

International
5
Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc

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.

International
6
Junior Achievement of Greater St Louis Inc

Empowering young people to own their economic success through work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy.

International
7
Junior Achievement of North Central Michigan Inc

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…

Youth Development
8
Junior Achievement of Central Illinois Inc

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…

International
9
Junior Achievement

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…

International
10
Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York Inc

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…

International
11
Junior Achievement of the Heartland Inc

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…

International
12
Junior Achievement of Kansas Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $1,216,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $70,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL M…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE …JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIA…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISH…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHI…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TENNINC: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TENN…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CEN…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $25,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $25,000 · International+1 more: $8,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $50,000 · Other
Youth Development$1,216,000International$478,000Other$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $1,216,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TENNINC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of Alaska Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Junior Achievement USAAmerican Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Junior Achievement USACO15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Junior Achievement USA · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Achievement Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Achievement Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Achievement Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Achievement Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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