Delaware · Nonprofit
JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC
JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Johnnetta Betsch Cole Legacy Institute Inc does
Mission
Contribute to efforts to dismantle systemic inequality by creating and stewarding organizations that (1) affirm the worth of every human being, (2) create equitable opportunities for every person to reach their full potential, and (3) promote democratic partnerships that foster institutional justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During 2025, the organization continued activities in support of its exempt purpose of advancing equity and institutional justice. The organization distributed a $100,000 pass-through grant to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) in furtherance of charitable and educational initiatives aligned with its mission.
$100,000 spentof which $100,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $100,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $99k to $3k (−97%).
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.
100% of JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
David Kamal Betsch Cole
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE 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.
Where its funders are
JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC's revenue fell 98% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE 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 JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC?
- JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE LEGACY INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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