Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Jobs with Justice Education Fund
Jobs with Justice Education Fund (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,287,516 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($15,709,830). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $44M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Jobs with Justice Education Fund does
Mission
JWJEF is a national organization network Organization with 39 coalitions in 26 states across the country. We believe that all working people should have collective bargaining rights, labor and employment protections, employment security and a decent standard of living. In partnership with a diverse universe of partners and allies we are creating innovative solutions to the socio-economic challenges working families face today. Our core strategies for advancing our collective efforts are three-fold: 1) lead and incubate campaigns that combine innovative communications strategies, solid research and policy innovations, and grassroots base-building and mobilization; 2) shape public discourse about workers' rights and the economy to advance collective bargaining as a solution to inequality; and 3) build and support a network of coalitions that provide a permanent infrastructure for working people to build power, wage strategic campaigns, mobilize, organize and negotiate.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Research & Campaigns: JWJEF incubated and led campaigns to strengthen workers rights and build power for working people across many sectors of our economy. We provided communications strategy, research, and policy analysis as well as support for grassroots organizing and coalition-building to campaigns at both the local and national levels.
$3,265,387 spentof which $1,332,577 as grants$10,149 earned by the program52% of program spendingCoalition Building: JWJEF supported a vibrant network of 26 local coalitions working at the grassroots level in 17 states to educate and organize for economic justice and workers rights at the local and state level. We strengthened the effectiveness of local coalitions by providing trainings, leadership development, technical assistance and capacity building in a range of areas, both organizational and programmatic.
$2,485,497 spentof which $233,703 as grants$34,533 earned by the program40% of program spendingEducation & Leadership Development: JWJEF launched multiple research collaborations with academic partners, held a fellowship program to cultivate rising worker leaders, and hosted strategy convenings to develop the leadership and draw on the expertise of southern organizers, academics, communicators, and policy experts in order to advance strategies focused on improving conditions for workers, particularly in the US South.
$535,169 spentof which $89,949 as grants$68,347 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,286,053.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.6M to $17M (+118%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Jobs with Justice Education Fund’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. 2 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
Erica Smiley
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $5.1M.
10 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $3.8M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Jobs with Justice Education Fund raised.
From the IRS filings of Jobs with Justice Education Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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 with Justice Education Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 44% · 2019 44% · 2020 35% · 2021 52% · 2022 27% · 2023 21% — 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 Jobs with Justice Education Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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 with Justice Education Fund draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M 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 with Justice Education Fund is better cushioned than half of the 1,060 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Jobs with Justice Education Fund
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% 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 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Jobs with Justice Education Fund: 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 with Justice Education Fund?
- Jobs with Justice Education Fund (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,287,516 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($15,709,830). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jobs with Justice Education Fund have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $44,287,516 in grants to Jobs with Justice Education Fund, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jobs with Justice Education Fund?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,709,830 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jobs with Justice Education Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 65 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