Missouri · Nonprofit
GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,329 to it, the largest being WHYHUNGER INC ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $236k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $211k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Good Journey Development Foundation does
Mission
Good journey supports & builds sustainable communities & young leaders who take responsibility for the improvement of our communities, and who promote cultural understanding that contributes to the betterment of society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our Community Our World (Community Leadership Building, Self-Healing, Resiliency & Social Justice Leadership Development) Our Community Our World is a year-long program to develop youth leaders who actively work to improve their community and individual circumstances through self-awareness, educational, career, community involvement and development workshops, and cultural exchanges. Through weekly sessions, youth manage an urban farm, produce podcasts, create, and enact community improvement projects, volunteer in community, manage social media, and prepare to organize to address racism and social injustices, and develop skills needed for global youth leadership and cultural exchanges. Our Community Our World program youth participate in Bustani Ya Upenda (Garden of Love), Second Look Podcast, Social Media Content Creation & Management, LIVE Black Youth Corps Community Involvement & Cultural Exchange, and History Maker Marker Project.
$82,930 spentof which $82,930 as grants$82,930 earned by the program40% of program spendingSummer Leadership Academy (Academic Enhancement and Leadership Development) Summer Leadership Academy is a multi-week summer program that engages youth in academic enrichment, community projects, culture and arts projects, educational field experiences and fun and engaging activities that teach communication, life, and leadership skills. Participating youth learned about, visited, and reported on Black Growers in St. Louis. Older youth facilitate sessions on gardening, robotics, poetry and more. Youth share the values of collective work, responsibility, and unity, and knowledge they gained throughout the summer program with the community at the conclusion of their Summer Leadership Academy experience.
$51,831 spentof which $51,831 as grants$51,831 earned by the program25% of program spendingXpress U Thru Art (Youth Healing Arts) A multi-week program in which young people explore trauma, oppression, emotions, and build skills in resiliency, self and community care, and the ability to positively project internally and externally through the creation of art. The teaching artist guides young people in their work through 14 sessions and multiple art projects that speak to who they are and what they feel. The partnering counselor helps young people learn to communicate their experiences to reinforce and build upon their humanity to create space for healing Xpress U Thru Art youth make healthier life choices and develop as leaders.
$72,564 spentof which $72,564 as grants$72,564 earned by the program35% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $207,325.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $201k to $53k (−73%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 42% · 2022 32% · 2023 45% · 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dionne Ferguson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $37k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 44% · 2022 66% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,329 to it, the largest being WHYHUNGER INC ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $211,329 in grants to GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- WHYHUNGER INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing