Massachusetts · Nonprofit
JFFLABS INC
JFFLABS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,678,643 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($3,526,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $693k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Jfflabs Inc does
Mission
Jfflabs provides a critical connection between traditional systems and new technology, financial models, and forward-leaning leaders. Together, we address the challenges to economic advancement faced by students, workers, and the businesses and systems that serve them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Jff labs, inc. Identifies, develops, invests and scales workforce and education innovations and technologies to benefit low-income individuals, communities and the public at large. Its goal is to create positive change in education and workforce systems and ultimately create economic advancement opportunities for workers.
$970,182 spent$106,372 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $970,182.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
36% of JFFLABS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3.0M → $0.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $250k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jobs for the Future Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JFFLABS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JFFLABS 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
JFFLABS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 JFFLABS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 93% · 2020 90% · 2021 96% · 2022 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
JFFLABS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
JFFLABS INC's revenue fell 71% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like JFFLABS 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
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 4 related entities
- Jobs for the Future Inc · exempt
- Education Quality Outcomes Standards Inc · exempt
- Jff Ventures II Gp LLC · partnership
- Jff Ventures LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JFFLABS 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 JFFLABS INC?
- JFFLABS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,678,643 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($3,526,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JFFLABS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $8,678,643 in grants to JFFLABS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JFFLABS INC?
- WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,526,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JFFLABS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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