Michigan · Nonprofit
JEFFERSON EAST INC
JEFFERSON EAST INC (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,973,214 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($2,734,814). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $-3899787
What Jefferson East Inc does
Mission
Growing detroit's east jefferson corridor and its neighborhoods through facilitative leadership, collaborative partnerships, and innovative and impactful programming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Resilient homes: jei's housing services help detroiters remain in their homes by providing them with resources to make both the structure and the family more resilient. Since 2013, jei has deployed or leveraged more than $4.3 million in home repair and energy efficient upgrades. These improvements have led to more than $3.8 million in annual energy and health savings for neighborhood residents. Jei's hud certified housing counselling program provides disaster preparation, home buyer education, foreclosure prevention, and post purchase planning for more than 1,700 residents annually.
$2,359,654 spent$15,172 earned by the program83% of program spendingResilient neighborhoods: resilient & safe neighborhoods support thriving businesses and residents. This is a fundamental component of jei's corridor and neighborhood improvement strategy. Jei monitors crime hotspots and develops community drive response to crime within the five neighborhoods that jei serves. Since 2013, jei has driven a 31% reduction in crime rates, implemented 137,689 public safety interventions including 4,900 domestic violence prevention activities and assisted more than 1,066 domestic violence victims in obtaining personal protection orders against their abusers. With the increase in climate induced disasters, jei now provides extensive disaster preparation and recovery training to neighborhood residents and business owners.
$255,745 spent9% of program spendingResilient business: jei through direct activities and those of its development subsidiary seeks to support and develop inclusive and resilient neighborhoods and business districts that allow longtime detroiters to benefit from the city's resurgence. Jei works to support small businesses through our community tech worker program which has linked more than 1500 small business owners to specialized training to make their businesses more digitally resilient.
$240,913 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,856,312.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.4M to $6.4M (+89%).
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 10% · 2018 35% · 2020 37% · 2021 6% · 2022 21% · 2023 19% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of JEFFERSON EAST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Joshua R Elling
CEO
Board chair
John Stroh Iii
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $480k → $554k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Enterprise Community Partners Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JEFFERSON EAST INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JEFFERSON EAST 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
JEFFERSON EAST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 39% · 2019 37% · 2020 35% · 2021 36% · 2022 38% · 2023 27% — 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
33% of JEFFERSON EAST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
66% of JEFFERSON EAST INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
JEFFERSON EAST INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding JEFFERSON EAST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 JEFFERSON EAST 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
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
- East Jefferson Development Corporation · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEFFERSON EAST 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 JEFFERSON EAST INC?
- JEFFERSON EAST INC (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,973,214 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($2,734,814). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEFFERSON EAST INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $7,973,214 in grants to JEFFERSON EAST INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON EAST INC?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,734,814 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEFFERSON EAST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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