Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY
JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $788,135 to it, the largest being EDEN BRIDGE FOUNDATION ($288,422). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $788k
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Jessica and Friends Community does
Mission
Jessica and Friends Community (jfc) offers residential services, training in daily living skills, and social services to adults with developmental disabilities. The mission of jfc is to respond to the needs of those with developmental disabilities along with their families who desire a christian program. Jfc affirms the worth of each person who is developmentally disabled and strives to be a catalyst for their inclusion in the local community and local body of christ. Jfc provides christ-centered support and services to strengthen each and every person while enabling them to attain their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential community homes - alternative housing to provide independent and supervised living in a faith based environment designed to promote independence and growth in all areas of life. The program services 7 clients homes.
$6,562,417 spent100% of program spendingPathway- faith-based, community-integrated day program that provides life- long learning opportunities for autistic and intellectually disabled individuals, 18 years of age and older.
Respite/home and community - support to clients learning life skills and goals in the community and home. Units of service vary from client to client. Approximately 33 clients are served.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,562,417.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.5M to $6.3M (+13%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 21% · 2022 8% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jane Merolla
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $150k → $76k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY’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
JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 89% · 2020 53% · 2021 87% · 2022 41% · 2023 53% — 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
44% of JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
94% of JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY'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 $46k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $743k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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
- J&F Products LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY?
- JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $788,135 to it, the largest being EDEN BRIDGE FOUNDATION ($288,422). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $788,135 in grants to JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY?
- EDEN BRIDGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $288,422 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY 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 15 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