Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JARI GROWTH FUND INC
JARI GROWTH FUND INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $456,606 to it, the largest being OPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $981k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $457k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Jari Growth Fund Inc does
Mission
Promotion of economic development in economically distressed communities in the southern alleghenies region of pennsylvania by engaging in activities directed at creating sustainable jobs, encouraging investment and economic growth, enhancing the quality of life for the residents of the region and improving housing and otherwise addressing the needs of low to moderate income residents of disadvantaged, poor and minority communities within the region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Providing funds, management assistance, management and labor training, and financial assistance to new and distressed businesses and businesses in low income distressed areas that employ or might employ and moderate income individuals as a community-based specialized financial institution.
$431,645 spent$36,273 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $431,645.
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 $2.6M to $3.6M (+40%).
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: 2018 35% · 2019 78% · 2020 65% · 2021 77% · 2022 81% · 2023 90% · 2024 42% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of JARI GROWTH FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% 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
Steven Howsare
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $147k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 JARI GROWTH FUND INC’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
JARI GROWTH FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 JARI GROWTH FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 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
54% of JARI GROWTH FUND INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
JARI GROWTH FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding JARI GROWTH FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$2.2M
- Department of the Treasury$1.4M
- Department of Agriculture$423k
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 JARI GROWTH FUND 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 1 related entity
- Johnstown Area Regional Industries · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JARI GROWTH FUND 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 JARI GROWTH FUND INC?
- JARI GROWTH FUND INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $456,606 to it, the largest being OPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JARI GROWTH FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $456,606 in grants to JARI GROWTH FUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JARI GROWTH FUND INC?
- OPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JARI GROWTH FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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