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Joy House Inc

Joy House Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $904,188 to it, the largest being Pickens Co Community Resource Assoc Inc ($236,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$772k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$904k
Net assets
$2.0M
15/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Joy House Inc does

Mission

Joy House provides Christ-centered restorative care for struggling teens, families, and individuals. Joy House accomplishes this through a comprehensive residential program for at-risk teens partnering with their families and non-residential Christian counseling both aimed at restoring the individual and family.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Program Service Accomplishments for 20231. Ministered to 21 teens and families in residential program.2. New Girl's home completed and opened.3. More teens in residence in 2nd half of year than at any time in our history with opening of new girl's home and reopening boy's home.4. 138 ind./fam. impacted through Counseling Center5. Most successful fundraising from Annual Banquet - $110,000+6. Most successful Jammin for Joy pickleball tourney - $29K raised7. First Cherokee Banquet

    $656,508 spent$120,329 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $656,508.

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 ($771k) Expenses 100 ($648k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 76 ($583k) Expenses 104 ($674k) Net assets 95 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 115 ($889k) Expenses 105 ($678k) Net assets 107 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 116 ($897k) Expenses 104 ($671k) Net assets 120 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 105 ($807k) Expenses 102 ($659k) Net assets 129 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 100 ($773k) Expenses 117 ($760k) Net assets 130 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 97 ($746k) Expenses 128 ($831k) Net assets 125 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 100 ($772k) Expenses 138 ($894k) Net assets 118 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (100)Expenses (138)Net assets (118)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.8M to $2.1M (+12%).

$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.0M
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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: 2020 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of Joy House Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,802 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.

$123k
’17
−$92k
’18
$211k
’19
$226k
’20
$148k
’21
$13k
’22
−$85k
’23
−$122k
’24
0.8
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

Steve Lowe

Executive Director

Board chair

Don Boggus Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1010986676
Joined·+1+0+1+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·1122011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $68k → $82k.

4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Joy House Inc’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

Joy House Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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 Joy House Inc.

26%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 38% · 2019 33% · 2020 33% · 2021 72% · 2022 32% · 2023 49% — 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

50% of Joy House Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 Joy House Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

PA
CA
MO
DE
AZ
SC
GA
TX
FL

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

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $227k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Joy House Inc's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 12%Fundraising 8%

Governance

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

Public support

94%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Joy House Inc?
Joy House Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $904,188 to it, the largest being Pickens Co Community Resource Assoc Inc ($236,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Joy House Inc have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $904,188 in grants to Joy House Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Joy House Inc?
Pickens Co Community Resource Assoc Inc is the largest funder on record, with $236,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Joy House Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing