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Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields
Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $174k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $129k
What Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields does
Mission
To empower and transform the lives of inner-city youth and those incarcerated through mentorship, guidance, and support. We create a positive and nurturing environment that fosters personal growth, educational advancement, discovering potential, building life skills, and successful reintegration into society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Iron Sharpens Irons ISI is a group of justice-involved men who provide mentorship and life skills training to at-risk and justice-involved teens and adults. Having been a former resident, our founder, JaMarcus Fields, was first granted access by Warden Charles Bowen to return to the South Bend Community Re-Entry Center as a volunteer. These frequent personal visits eventually gave birth to a partnership between the Re-Entry Center and ISI. The Iron Men- the name given to the men who facilitate programming for ISI- currently facilitate monthly programming, breathing life and hope into the residents of the Re-Entry Center with their personal stories of overcoming challenges and experiencing success post incarceration. ISI has established similar partnerships with the Pendleton Correctional Facility maximum security and the DePaul Academy within the St. Joseph County Juvenile Justice Center where we present monthly or quarterly programming to the men and teens housed there. In January 2024, we began facilitating weekly programming for at-risk teens at the Tolson Center for Community Excellence in Elkhart, Indiana.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields?
- Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields.
- Who is the largest funder of Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields?
- THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Iron Sharpens Iron WAST Inc CO Jamarcus Fields find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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