Virginia · Nonprofit
JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC
JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,423,621 to it, the largest being SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION ($1,970,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Jobs for America's Graduates Inc does
Mission
To empower the nation's young people with the skills and support to succeed in education, employment, and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Jobs for america's graduates (jag) is a 43-year-old, state-based national non-profit serving young people who face significant academic, economic and social challenges so they graduate from high school and successfully transition to post-secondary education and/or meaningful employment. Jag has served over 1.5 million students since its inception and is currently helping 75,000 young people annually in nearly 1,500 communities and other locations in 39 states to achieve academic, career and life success.
$5,539,701 spentof which $1,503,972 as grants$2,910,588 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,539,701.
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 2017 to 2018, from $6.8M to $4.4M (−35%).
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 0% · 2021 7% · 2022 19% · 2023 24% · 2024 27% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Janelle Duray
President and CEO
Board chair
Governor Albert Bryan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $458k → $1.2M.
8 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $428k from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn). These are real filings, and they are not money JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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
JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
32% 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 JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 56% · 2019 34% · 2020 21% · 2021 23% · 2022 29% · 2023 41% — 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
45% of JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.4M on record — $8.3M federal, $110k state.
- Department of Labor$8.3M
- FEDERAL$66k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$33k
- TRUST FUND$10k
- DEDICATED$725
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 JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES 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 JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC?
- JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,423,621 to it, the largest being SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION ($1,970,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $7,423,621 in grants to JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC?
- SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,970,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing