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Journi Incorporated

Journi Incorporated (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,179 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($267,724). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$500k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$-4986
5/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Journi Incorporated does

Mission

Journi, Incorporated is a non-profit organization dedicated to equipping communities with the skills and know-how to jump start local economies; to allow those communities to become globally competitive.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. JOURNi, Incorporated is a nonprofit organization committed to building an inclusive tech ecosystem by equipping individuals from underserved communitiesparticularly youth in Detroitwith the skills, tools, and opportunities to thrive in a technology-driven economy. Through culturally responsive coding education, entrepreneurship training, mentorship, and paid workforce development programs, JOURNi helps catalyze economic mobility and empowers communities to become self-sustaining, innovative, and globally competitive.

    $498,095 spent$500,222 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $498,095.

02The 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 ($150k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2018 Revenue 97 ($145k) Expenses 92 ($129k) Net assets 267 ($25k)2019 Revenue 128 ($192k) Expenses 122 ($172k) Net assets 480 ($46k)2020 Revenue 183 ($275k) Expenses 191 ($268k) Net assets 548 ($52k)2021 Revenue 219 ($329k) Expenses 281 ($395k) Net assets 310 ($29k)2022 Revenue 323 ($483k) Expenses 300 ($421k) Net assets 968 ($92k)2023 Revenue 180 ($270k) Expenses 264 ($370k) Net assets 341 ($32k)2024 Revenue 334 ($500k) Expenses 382 ($536k) Net assets -52 ($-4986)
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Revenue (334)Expenses (382)Net assets (-52)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $127k to $32k (−75%).

$10k
$25k
$0
$99k
$47k
$127k
$32k
$6k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 73% · 2022 77% · 2023 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

32% of Journi Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
$16k
’18
$20k
’19
$6k
’20
−$66k
’21
$63k
’22
−$100k
’23
−$36k
’24
0.1
months of
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

Richard Grundy

Chief Executive Officer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed14441
Joined··+0+0·
No longer listed··00·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $35k → $85k.

2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Journi Incorporated’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

Journi Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

53% 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 Journi Incorporated.

25%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 79% · 2019 89% · 2020 66% · 2021 26% · 2022 36% · 2023 59% — 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.

How long its funders stay

17% of Journi Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

66% of Journi Incorporated's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NY
NJ
CA
NC
TX

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Journi Incorporated has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Journi Incorporated

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Journi Incorporated: 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 Journi Incorporated?
Journi Incorporated (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,179 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($267,724). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Journi Incorporated have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,082,179 in grants to Journi Incorporated, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Journi Incorporated?
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $267,724 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Journi Incorporated find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 16 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