California · Nonprofit
JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $817,786 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($423,550). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $818k
- Net assets
- $116k
What Jefferson Economic Development Institute does
Mission
Jedi's mission is to increase the economic well-being of people and communities through business development and local wealth creation. Through this mission, jedi is addressing the root causes of rural poverty and economic development. Since 1996 it has supported over 6,700 people in growing a business, created 1,700 businesses and jobs, and 70 have received financing of approximately 7.6 million.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Jefferson Economic Development Institute (jedi) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the economic well-being of people and communities through business development and local wealth creation. Jedi assists low and moderate income families to thrive financially by building sustainable businesses and assets. Over the past 27 years, jedi has served over 14,000 individuals who started over 1,300 businesses and added new jobs in this rural frontier region of northern california. Jedi has brought close to 8 million into the county in support of small business development and assisted businesses to acquire over 15,000,000 in business capital. Jedi hosts an sba-designated women's business center since 2014 which serves a 4-county region in northern ca. Jedi also hosts an irs-designated free tax preparation site called vita (volunteer income tax assistance). Jedi also hosts the mount shasta farmers' market serving ranchers and farmers throughout siskiyou county for the last 25 years.
$964,293 spentof which $23,000 as grants$11,805 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $964,293.
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 2021 to 2022, from $143k to $287k (+101%).
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 80% · 2018 38% · 2019 36% · 2020 72% · 2021 74% · 2022 65% · 2023 66% · 2024 63% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE’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. 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
Erika Carpenter
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $56k → $50k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE’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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 62% · 2019 62% · 2020 64% · 2021 79% · 2022 51% · 2023 36% — 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
57% of JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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
JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE has grown faster than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Small Business Administration$1.6M
- Department of the Treasury$257k
- Department of Agriculture$100k
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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: 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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE?
- JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $817,786 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($423,550). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $817,786 in grants to JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE?
- The Ford Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $423,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 12 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