New York · Nonprofit
GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,733,381 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Greater Jamaica Development Corporation does
Mission
See schedule oGreater Jamaica Development Corporation ("gjdc") is a community-building organization that plans, promotes, coordinates and advances responsible development to revitalize downtown jamaica. Marshalling its own resources as well as those of the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, the corporation's focus is to expand economic opportunity and improve the quality of life for the ethnically and economically diverse residents of jamaica. Gjdc leverages its substantial capacity to assist other mission-based organizations in southeast queens to increase their effectiveness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule oeffective parking to catalyze economic growth:with a large driving population, the economic vitality of downtown jamaica is underpinned by car-based transportation - as local residents and workers rely on vehicles to get to and from work, home, shopping, school and cultural venues. To address this basic need, gjdc provides augmented, below-market parking to support and bolster economic activity downtown. Jamaica first parking, llc ("jfp"), a wholly owned subsidiary of gjdc, owns and operates parking in the downtown in order improve transportation, support local economic activity and development. As the nonprofit owner of four parking facilities with approximately 1,800 spaces in the downtown, jfp provides safe, attractive, affordably priced parking to support economic and cultural activity in jamaica.
$4,278,567 spentof which $1,000 as grants$4,442,997 earned by the program48% of program spendingSee schedule ojamaica market:since its opening in 1990, the jamaica market has established itself as a community meeting place offering an eclectic array of affordable culinary choices - from salads and sandwiches to juices and ethnic foods from asia, latin america, and the caribbean all in a convenient location. Over the years, the market has helped many creative and ambitious entrepreneurs start businesses in a commercial corridor where it might otherwise be too expensive for them to open shop; there are currently over 20 shops selling hot food, news, coffee, magazines, flowers, cosmetics, jewelry, hair products and more. In addition, the harvest room is located in the jamaica market. As one of the only offerings of its kind in downtown jamaica the harvest room serves as a large scale event space that gjdc offers for community convening purposes. Able to accommodate up to 150 guests, the local community uses the harvest room for a wide variety of family, social, and business events. Not only can the venue be rented for affordable rates, gjdc also provides the space in-kind for certain community events. Greater nexus:since opening in 2022, greater nexus has emerged as a premier…
$2,891,448 spent$2,170,329 earned by the program32% of program spendingSee schedule ofacilitating affordable housing development:in response to resounding demand for affordable housing and new retail by the jamaica community, gjdc has worked closely with private developers to help facilitate the construction of more mixed-use, affordable buildings in downtown jamaica.moreover, gjdc's next initiative is to repurpose one of our underutilized parking garages into a mixed-use development while maintaining our commitment to affordable public parking. The project will include subgrade parking with ev charging stations to ensure continued access for community members. The development will also feature ground-floor retail, over 300 mixed-income rental apartments, and 55 affordable homeownership condos. By increasing access to stable, quality housing and creating pathways to ownership, the project will help strengthen community ties, promote long-term residency, and support generational wealth-building for local families.events and programming:in order to help connect residents to their neighborhood, gjdc sponsors several events throughout the year, including a women's history month celebration in march, a small business legislative event in may, semi-annual…
$1,264,173 spentof which $145,250 as grants$243,016 earned by the program14% of program spendingBusiness services:gjdc's business services group (bsg) delivers direct support to local small businesses, with a strategic focus on driving job creation, particularly within industrial sectors and businesses located in or near low-to-moderate income (lmi) census tracts.bsg serves as a key resource to businesses and a trusted intermediary with the city. We monitor and report on business needs in city-designated industrial business zones (ibzs), and advocate for infrastructure improvements that support industrial growth and employment. Our assistance focuses on enabling job-generating businesses to thrive, by helping them access financing, government incentives, and regulatory guidance.our mission is to strengthen the local economy by helping businesses create and retain quality jobs. This commitment informs all our activities, including one-on-one technical assistance, community-based outreach, and partnerships that connect businesses to the resources they need to grow.while the covid-19 pandemic prompted an urgent expansion of our services, allowing us to assist over 1,100 businesses and help secure over $5 million in funding and grants, our focus has remained steady: supporting…
$524,948 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,959,136.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $25M to $41M (+64%).
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 15% · 2023 19% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Lamont R Bailey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $125k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $440k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
28% 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 GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 67% · 2020 68% · 2021 47% · 2022 89% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
11% of GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 18% 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
61% of GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.4M on record.
- Small Business Administration$2.0M
- Department of the Treasury$1.6M
- Department of Commerce$759k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- 93-43 Sutphin LLC · disregarded
- Jamaica First Parking LLC · disregarded
- Sutphin Underpass LLC · disregarded
- Gjdc Realty LLC · disregarded
- Gjdc Realty 2 LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,733,381 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,733,381 in grants to GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- CITI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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