Massachusetts · Nonprofit
JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC
JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,537 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($245,312). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- The Harold Grinspoon Foundationshared funders
- The Lenny Zakim Fundportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $14k → $73k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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
JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 64% · 2019 88% · 2020 51% · 2021 59% · 2022 63% · 2023 57% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES 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 $48k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $341k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchMA · funds 175 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold Grinspoon Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- The Lenny Zakim Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Haymarket People's Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spectrum Health Systems Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- English for New Bostonians Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- We Share A Common Thread Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Worcester County Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colonial Federal Savings Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC?
- JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,537 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($245,312). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $389,537 in grants to JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $245,312 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 13funders 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