New York · Nonprofit
JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,169,601 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($4,117,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $33M
What John Jay College Foundation Inc does
Mission
John jay college foundation, inc. Conducts fund-raising activities in support of john jay college and its various educational, cultural, and social activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation conducts fundraising activities to benefit the john jay college of criminal justice educational, cultural and social activities. In fiscal year 2025, the foundation raised money and provided support towards the john jay college of criminal justice's student scholarship, fellowship and grant awards, as well as support for research activities.
$4,748,075 spentof which $2,510,298 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,748,075.
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 2022 to 2023, from $22M to $27M (+24%).
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.
83% of JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Ketura Parker
Executive director, non-voting
Board chair
Jules B Kroll
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $335k → $4.5M.
14 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $3.3M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest John Jay College of Criminal Justice Auxiliary Services Corporation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
58% 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 JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 32% · 2020 31% · 2021 37% · 2022 25% · 2023 31% — 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
36% of JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
75% of JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M 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
JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- FEDERAL$35k
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 JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,169,601 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($4,117,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $18,169,601 in grants to JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,117,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 63 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