Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Jamaicas Promise
Jamaicas Promise (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,028 to it, the largest being THE LLOYD CARNEY FOUNDATION ($74,845). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $149k
What Jamaicas Promise does
Mission
The aim is to establish Jamaicas Promise as the leading entity that provides the resources and support needed by local organizations to improve the education and training of young people from disadvantaged circumstances and communities. Jamaicas Promise will raise funds, mobilize voluntary effort from the public, including private entities and regular individuals, to achieve this grand vision of giving every young person a shot at achieving the Jamaican Dream.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The following activities are being conducted: 1 Urban alliance is an effort to advance the understanding that learning is social, emotional and cognitive and to fuel the growing movement to educate children as a whole people. 2 The GradNation campaign mobilizes education leaders to a 90 percent high school graduation rate to put more youth on the path to adult success. The campaign supports those working to raise graduation rates by sharing data, best practices and opportunities to connect and learn from one another. 3 The YES Project is a national initiative that brings youth, employers and a diverse group of stakeholders and advocates working to support and grow our youth workforce - with the goal of achieving full employment for young people by aged 16-24 by 2030.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $22k to $89k (+310%).
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.
100% of Jamaicas Promise’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Audrey Marks
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $25.
2 of 5 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.
From the IRS filings of Jamaicas Promise’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
Jamaicas Promise leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 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.
Where its funders are
Jamaicas Promise draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
Jamaicas Promise runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,457 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,457 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Jamaicas Promise
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Jamaicas Promise: 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 Jamaicas Promise?
- Jamaicas Promise (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,028 to it, the largest being THE LLOYD CARNEY FOUNDATION ($74,845). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jamaicas Promise have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $109,028 in grants to Jamaicas Promise, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jamaicas Promise?
- THE LLOYD CARNEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $74,845 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jamaicas Promise find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 5 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