Massachusetts · Nonprofit
JA WORLDWIDE INC
JA WORLDWIDE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,157,454 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($11,875,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Ja Worldwide Inc does
Mission
Ja worldwide's mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ja worldwide supports members locations in 100+ countries through a unified strategic plan, global fundraising, management of our global brand, thought leadership, technology strategy and implementation, and the development of both traditional and digital learning experiences delivered each year. This year, ja worldwide was selected as one of the top ten global ngos by ngo advisor/thedotgood for the seventh year in a row and was nominated for the noble peace prize for the fourth straight year.
$22,183,110 spentof which $12,665,582 as grants$3,176,405 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,183,110.
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 2022 to 2023, from $14M to $20M (+44%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of JA WORLDWIDE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Karen Reddington
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $735k → $6.3M.
17 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $2.2M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation); $9k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Ja Worldwide Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JA WORLDWIDE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JA WORLDWIDE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
JA WORLDWIDE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
43% 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 JA WORLDWIDE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 37% · 2019 24% · 2020 85% · 2021 85% · 2022 27% · 2023 32% — 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
41% of JA WORLDWIDE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
JA WORLDWIDE INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
JA WORLDWIDE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding JA WORLDWIDE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.7M on record.
- Agency for International Development$9.3M
- Department of State$436k
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 JA WORLDWIDE INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 2 related entities
- Ja Africa Inc · exempt
- Ja Asia Pacific Limited · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JA WORLDWIDE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JA WORLDWIDE INC?
- JA WORLDWIDE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,157,454 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($11,875,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JA WORLDWIDE INC have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $37,157,454 in grants to JA WORLDWIDE INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JA WORLDWIDE INC?
- CITI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JA WORLDWIDE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 61 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing