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JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC

JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,450,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($4,380,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$4.5M
Net assets
$1.2M
1/6 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What John T Fontaine Jr Charity Inc does

Mission

To help kids across the country make good decisions about alcohol that not only save their lives, but also provide them with the tools to become healthy, successful adults.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Jfjc's signature program, brainabouts, is a neuroscience-based prevention program that provides schools with a toolbox to empower young people to make better decisions and develop healthy brains. Brainabouts is designed to be a turnkey tool for counselors, a go-to resource for parents, an activity generator for students, a pre-integrated curriculum for teachers, and a statistics tracker for school administrators.

    $702,721 spent$12,751 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $702,721.

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 ($82k) Expenses 100 ($13k) Net assets 100 ($69k)2018 Revenue 216 ($177k) Expenses 465 ($62k) Net assets 267 ($184k)2019 Revenue 10 ($8k) Expenses 388 ($52k) Net assets 204 ($140k)2020 Revenue 589 ($484k) Expenses 1497 ($201k) Net assets 616 ($423k)2021 Revenue 3537 ($2.9M) Expenses 3569 ($478k) Net assets 4146 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 479 ($393k) Expenses 5995 ($803k) Net assets 3550 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 308 ($253k) Expenses 8467 ($1.1M) Net assets 2299 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 849 ($697k) Expenses 8514 ($1.1M) Net assets 1653 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 1330 ($1.1M) Expenses 7996 ($1.1M) Net assets 1683 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (1330)Expenses (7996)Net assets (1683)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 2020 to 2021, from $438k to $2.8M (+550%).

$69k
$184k
$140k
$438k
$2.8M
$2.4M
$1.6M
$1.1M
$1.2M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$69k
’17
$115k
’18
−$44k
’19
$283k
’20
$2.4M
’21
−$410k
’22
−$881k
’23
−$444k
’24
$20k
’25
2.0
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.

Chief executive

Rene Zamore

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20202021202220242025
Listed910111212
Joined·+1+1·+0
No longer listed·00·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $575k → $215k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY 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

JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC.

98%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

99% of JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $60k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states.

TN
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M 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

JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)38% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY 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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 33%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC?
JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,450,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($4,380,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $4,450,000 in grants to JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $4,380,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 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