Georgia · Nonprofit
JEFFERSON SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION
JEFFERSON SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,748 to it, the largest being NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($32,192). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Jefferson School System Foundation does
Mission
Jefferson city schools have received tremendous support from the Jefferson School System Foundation since 1983. Independent of school administrators, the foundation exists for the benefit of the school system by providing scholarships, special grants, supplements, and other specific programs and projects as agreed upon with the administration. The foundation supports the jefferson school system efforts to graduate fully functioning adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Grants & scholarships the foundation distributes funds to the schools in our system. The amount distributed is based on the number of students in attendance at each school. The principal of each school is to use the money for an activity or recognition program that is not funded through regular school money. A variety of scholarships are administered to students in recognition of their achievements and academic excellence. Recipients are selected by a committee of high school guidance counselors and school administrators. Examples of scholarship criteria include gpa, sat/act score, leadership, extracurricular activities, perfect attendance, and other achievements.
$76,775 spentof which $63,094 as grants90% of program spendingTotal person program the total person program is available to juniors and seniors attending jefferson high school. This is an enrichment program that includes activities such as fine dining and etiquette training, cpr training, attending plays or musicals, visiting college campuses, etc. Each student is required to complete community service hours. The goal of the program is to make the student well rounded and community minded.
$8,516 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,291.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $79k to $201k (+153%).
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 JEFFERSON SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
L'Resu Thompson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $6k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION’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 SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 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
93% of JEFFERSON SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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 SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JEFFERSON SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
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 SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION: 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 SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION?
- JEFFERSON SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,748 to it, the largest being NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($32,192). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEFFERSON SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $34,748 in grants to JEFFERSON SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION?
- NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEFFERSON SCHOOL SYSTEM FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 3 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