Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES
JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,056,807 to it, the largest being GHR Foundation ($650,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $615k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $423k
What Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities does
Mission
To improve the quality, management, and accessibility of resources that will strengthen the capacity of faith-based groups to develop and implement humanitarian goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Publications and collaborations:during the year, jli expanded its work on the fair and equitable initiative by continuing to support the work of existing regional learning hubs in east africa, syria, and the middle east, as well as continuing to support the establishment of new regional hubs in south east asia and southern africa. Jli has also organized 11 virtual events, 7 in-person events, and participated in more than 11 conferences. Jli's agreements with united nations children's fund ("unicef") global hq covering south asia, east and southern africa, and west and central africa ("wcar"), as well as with the unicef latin america and caribbean regional office ("lacro"), concluded in 2024. Subsequently, jli entered into two new agreements with unicef under the fpcc initiative: one with unicef lacro and another with the unicef south asia regional office ("rosa"). Additionally, jli provided support to samuel hall in the fpcc meal framework.throughout the year, jli collaborated with its member organizations on several research projects, which will form chapters in the second edition of its state of the evidence in religions in development navigator. These included a joint effort…
$637,415 spent$265,030 earned by the program100% of program spendingConferences, panels, and talks - jli continued to share blog posts on its 'rethinking religions and development' blog and added more than 75 new resources in its resource library about faith and development. Furthermore, during the year, around 30 of jli materials were published on faith actors in peacebuilding and governance in east africa, the faith and positive change for children, families, and communities ("fpcc") initiative, mental health and psychosocial support and faith, a training on religions and development research course, and other topics pertinent to development practitioners and researchers. Interim president/ceo maurice bloem continued to interview some jli members for the 'walk talk listen' podcast.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $637,415.
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 2021 to 2022, from $502k to $1.3M (+160%).
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.
57% of JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Maurice Bloem
Interim president/CEO
Board chair
Dionne Gravesande
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $150k → $474k.
From the IRS filings of JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES’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
JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 91% · 2022 52% · 2023 69% — 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.
Where its funders are
JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES
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In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES?
- JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,056,807 to it, the largest being GHR Foundation ($650,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,056,807 in grants to JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES?
- GHR Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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