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JJs Legacy

JJs Legacy (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,215 to it, the largest being San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield ($167,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$371k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$614k
Net assets
$615k
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What JJs Legacy does

Mission

The mission of Jj's Legacy is to honor Jeffrey Johns by educating Kern County residents on the value and importance of organ, eye, and tissue donation, increasing the number of registered donors, and providing compassionate support to donor and recipient families.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To provide education and awareness regarding the importance of Organ and Tissue donation and to support donor and recipient families of Kern County on their prospective journeys.In addition, JJ's Legacy has created comfort rooms at various local hospitals to provide a quiet, comfortable space at the hospital for donor families to be close to their loved one during donation time.JJs Legacys is currently working to identify the community in need of support on their transplant journeys. We have partnered with Kern County dialysis centers to identify those who are waiting for their life-saving transplant with medical grants and financial assistance in many forms including coverage of transportation costs to assist more patients with frequent travel requirements in completing their pre-transplant process to get on the recipient waiting list. The financial, medical grants we offer help them cover the costs of insurance premiums, doctors visits, prescription medicine, lab work and temporary housing during recovery.

    $226,264 spentof which $112,262 as grants
    97% of program spending
  2. The Got The Dot Leadership Program- A 3 week long educational introduction to organ, eye and tissue donation, the curriculum consists of four sessions of educational material, concluding with the opportunity to give a presentation in class to a panel of local judges. Their final project will showcase a student created video using their newly gained knowledge along with their presentation. All the students who participate in the Leadership Program will receive participation certificates. A first and second place team will be awarded scholarships and will be featured on JJs Legacy social media platforms.The Got The Dot Executive Student Board- . This academic year-long club educates students, provides several independent projects to expand on their training. JJ's Legacy events to maximize volunteering and community outreach impact. Students also are given the opportunity to meet with guest speakers who have had a life saving transplant and donor families. The Student Board meets at the JJs Legacy office monthly to provide education and leadership skills. Students will become educators on organ, eye, and tissue donation for their friends and families. The culminating project will be…

    $8,156 spent
    3% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $234,420.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($217k) Expenses 100 ($216k) Net assets 100 ($676k)2018 Revenue 112 ($242k) Expenses 132 ($285k) Net assets 92 ($625k)2019 Revenue 116 ($251k) Expenses 131 ($281k) Net assets 88 ($594k)2020 Revenue 120 ($260k) Expenses 109 ($236k) Net assets 92 ($619k)2021 Revenue 166 ($360k) Expenses 128 ($277k) Net assets 104 ($702k)2022 Revenue 152 ($329k) Expenses 165 ($356k) Net assets 100 ($676k)2023 Revenue 181 ($391k) Expenses 188 ($406k) Net assets 98 ($664k)2024 Revenue 171 ($371k) Expenses 205 ($442k) Net assets 91 ($615k)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (205)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

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 $764k to $688k (−10%).

$745k
$759k
$728k
$733k
$764k
$688k
$676k
$631k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

110% of JJs Legacy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’17
−$42k
’18
−$30k
’19
$24k
’20
$83k
’21
−$26k
’22
−$14k
’23
−$71k
’24
17
months of
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

Dr Nimisha Amin

Chairwoman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1313141615161515
Joined·+0+1+3+1+4+1+0
No longer listed·0012320
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $84k → $26k.

2 of 18 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 JJs Legacy’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

JJs Legacy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38% 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 JJs Legacy.

27%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 36% · 2019 60% · 2020 31% · 2021 30% · 2022 35% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.

“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

31% of JJs Legacy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of JJs Legacy's grant income comes from California funders.

NV
CA
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JJs Legacy holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve17.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 37%Fundraising 10%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds JJs Legacy?
JJs Legacy (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,215 to it, the largest being San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield ($167,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JJs Legacy have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $614,215 in grants to JJs Legacy, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JJs Legacy?
San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield is the largest funder on record, with $167,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JJs Legacy 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.

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