· Public charity
Junior Achievement USA
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $857k
- $50k–250k48 grants · $6.3M
- $250k+17 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Junior Achievement USA Foundation | $10,309,665 |
| Junior Achievement of Central Indiana Inc | $1,245,115 |
| 3DE National LLC | $1,100,075 |
| Junior Achievement of Georgia Inc | $1,080,258 |
| Junior Achievement North Inc | $968,279 |
| Junior Achievement of Southern California Inc | $934,364 |
| Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain Inc | $573,584 |
| Junior Achievement of New York Inc | $509,448 |
| Junior Achievement of Dallas Inc | $419,852 |
| Junior Achievement of Greater Boston Inc | $418,110 |
| Junior Achievement of Arizona Inc | $355,267 |
| Junior Achievement of New Jersey Inc | $352,614 |
| Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc | $333,464 |
| Junior Achievement of Chicago | $314,557 |
| Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc | $288,085 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Junior Achievement USA’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
100 repeat relationships — 95 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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 of Georgia9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +96%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC7× · 2018–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +118% · 54% of their budget
- 3N3DE NATIONAL LLC5× · 2019–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +70%
Funded once
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLETOWN AREAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +76%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF FLORIDA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue +620%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST CENTRAL OHIOone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +13%
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.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. see additional mission information on schedule o.
To support the activities of junior achievement of northern indiana, inc.
To inspire young people to succeed in a global economy. core values of the organization 1. belief in the boundless potential of young people 2. commitment to the principles of market based economics and entrepreneurship 3. passion for what…
To provide education and scholarship opportunities for local youth in Brazoria County in finance and business.
Our mission is to inspire, prepare, and empower young people to own their economic success by delivering experiential programs focused on achieving financial literacy, developing entrepreneurship, and teaching workforce readiness skills.
To inspire and prepare the young people of China with character and skills to succeed in the global economy.
Junior achievement of georgia discovery center's mission is to teach financial literacy through experiential learning to middle school children in atlanta, fulton county, dekalb county and others.
To provide economic education to local students to inspire and prepare them to succeed in a global economy. The Organization merged with another nonprofit organization at the end of the fiscal year.
The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.
Raises/maintains funds for jacf which empowers students to economic success by delivering innovative, experiential learning programs in fin literacy, career readiness, and entrepreneurship. educators and business leaders inspire and…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. With trained volunteers, JA teaches financial literacy and the economics of life by showing young people how jobs, money and business ownership work.
Foundation for Junior Achievement of Arizona's mission is to support Junior Achievement of Arizona, Inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Greater St Louis Inc and the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds 3DE NATIONAL LLC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Northern California ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of North Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Southeastern Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA 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: Ja Worldwide Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Rsm US Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Cla Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Deloitte Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · United Way of Bergen County
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 Junior Achievement USA 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.
- Junior Achievement of South Florida Inc — 14% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Greater Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 2% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Oregon and Sw Washington Inc — 1% of income from government
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.