Virginia · Nonprofit
JOIN THE JOURNEY
JOIN THE JOURNEY (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,611 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION PLUS INC ($34,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Join the Journey does
Mission
Join the Journey's mission is to increase livelihood prospects and overall nourishment for impoverished families in Zambia by empowering female business owners through training and small loans.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Join the Journey transitioned to a cohort model of how it services beneficiaries - leveraging a multi-pronged system of a Business Boot Camp, starter capital infusion, six virtual coaching sessions, and then a more substantial business loan - all implemented through our partner Spark Zambia on the ground in Lusaka. The cohort model allowed for a programmatic process of recruiting, onboarding, and issuing capital in a manageable way.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Women Empowerment- The organization executed its flagship program Spark Biz in Zambia, providing loans and coaching to 84 beneficiaries. Our implementing partner, Spark Zambia, was able to use repaid loans from 2021 to provide loan funding to the majority of these beneficiaries - to include a graduate group of 10 beneficiaries who received loans equitable to $500. The organization supplemented this with $6500 grant funds to be used for loans. The success of these women business owners in the program helped benefit another 2,500 people either directly related to the beneficiaries or community members that had greater assess to goods and services to sustain their daily lives. This program features our intentional coaching where U.S. business leaders were able to impart wisdom on a weekly basis through Zoom.
$39,866 spentof which $28,989 as grants85% of program spendingSpark Coach Program - As both a component of but also a separate accomplishment, the organization was able to recruit, train, and provide connections for meaningful volunteer service for 50-plus business leaders. These leaders would speak to our entrepreneurs in Zambia via Zoom on six set topics for each cohort: values, value proposition, sourcing, partnership, marketing, and family balance. Individuals participating felt a deep connection with the work taking place in Zambia, grew in their mutual respect for lives in Zambia, and were able to add value from their respective expertise. Our Spark Coach program continues to be a hallmark for meaningful service and mutual benefit for our program on the ground.
$7,064 spent15% of program spendingSpark Career - Join the Journey developed a special partnership with the Thunderbird School of Global Management to train and assist students there to develop their skills in global business. The training and oversight were provided in parallel to JTJ's existing staffing costs and incurred no additional cost to the organization to execute.
$0 spent0% of program spendingFintech Development - Join the Journey paid out a final grant toward the development of a financial technology solution (app-based lending). It was decided that the development work and other ends associated were best aligned to a for-profit and were subsequently transferred as such to continue the project forward.
$200 spentof which $200 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $47,130.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1k to $11k (+803%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 JOIN THE JOURNEY’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
JOIN THE JOURNEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 JOIN THE JOURNEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 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
JOIN THE JOURNEY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like JOIN THE JOURNEY
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 JOIN THE JOURNEY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JOIN THE JOURNEY?
- JOIN THE JOURNEY (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,611 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION PLUS INC ($34,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOIN THE JOURNEY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $34,611 in grants to JOIN THE JOURNEY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOIN THE JOURNEY?
- DAYTON FOUNDATION PLUS INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOIN THE JOURNEY 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.
Play a game about who funds Join the Journey →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 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