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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.

$615k
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
$2.1M
Grants received
$423k
Net assets
6/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%

Against its field

JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,796 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−34% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,796 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($132k) Expenses 100 ($169k) Net assets 100 ($168k)2019 Revenue 455 ($603k) Expenses 335 ($565k) Net assets 144 ($242k)2020 Revenue 822 ($1.1M) Expenses 362 ($610k) Net assets 430 ($721k)2021 Revenue 248 ($329k) Expenses 455 ($767k) Net assets 168 ($282k)2022 Revenue 1303 ($1.7M) Expenses 515 ($869k) Net assets 680 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 714 ($946k) Expenses 864 ($1.5M) Net assets 375 ($629k)2024 Revenue 465 ($615k) Expenses 487 ($822k) Net assets 252 ($423k)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (465)Expenses (487)Net assets (252)Peer revenue range

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,235 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
17
$38k
19
$480k
20
$439k
21
$857k
22
$511k
23
$207k
24
6.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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

32%
largest funder
89%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

WA
MN
NY
CA
VA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

19
20
21
22
23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 19%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

61%

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 JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON FAITH AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES: 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 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.

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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing