Colorado · Nonprofit
JOY International
JOY International (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,902 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($100,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $888k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $427k
- Net assets
- $121k
What JOY International does
Mission
JOY International is dedicated to the prevention of child trafficking and to the freedom, healing, and empowerment of trafficked children, teens, and young adults worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nepal: In 2025, JOY International supported survivors of human trafficking in Nepal through safe housing, trauma-informed care, and community-based follow-up services. JOY served 48 girls in residential care at the JOY Mukti Home, providing counseling, education, legal support, medical care, and safe housing. JOY Mukti staff also provided counseling, education assistance, and social work services to 31 additional survivors in the community. Survivors were supported through coordinated rescue response and stabilization services, with 40 survivors freed from exploitation through efforts carried out by the JVI rescue and investigation team with the JOY Mukti Home staff support and oversight. JOY also advanced survivor-centered accountability efforts through legal advocacy, with 19 court cases filed against traffickers and abusers during 2025. Due to the efforts of JOY International, survivors received trauma-informed services that address physical recovery, emotional healing, and empowerment for a strong future.
$203,764 spent38% of program spendingUganda: JOYs Uganda Empowerment Program supports vulnerable girls through education assistance and stability-focused care designed to reduce risk factors associated with exploitation. The program serves girls facing significant barriers, including poverty, orphanhood, family displacement, unsafe home environments, forced early marriage, and pressure to work at a young age. In 2025, JOY International supported 38 girls in Uganda through sponsorship, and two participants completed their education program and graduated.
$127,345 spent24% of program spendingEducation and Awareness:JOYs United States program focuses on trafficking prevention through education and awareness initiatives that equip youth and communities to recognize exploitation risks and respond appropriately. In 2025, JOY provided human trafficking education and awareness to 300 students as part of its prevention programming, strengthening understanding of safety, warning signs, and how to seek help. Training includes age-appropriate instruction on common exploitation tactics, including sextortion and online grooming, as well as practical online safety guidance, trusted-adult reporting pathways, and steps students can take to seek help for themselves or a friend.
$102,899 spent19% of program spendingBelize: JOYs Belize program strengthens frontline caregivers and leaders who serve vulnerable children by providing trauma-informed training, relational support, and a structured staff care retreat. In 2025, JOY hosted a training and retreat with 38 attendees representing 12 different NGOs or foster families, creating cross-organization encouragement and shared learning. JOY also delivered additional trauma-informed care training for 10 staff members of a large childrens home in Belize. In May, JOY connected one-on-one with leaders from seven children service organizations across Belize, strengthening relationships and building connections for further ministry. Through the organizations and individuals trained or hosted, the programs indirect reach is estimated at more than 200 children served. In October 2025, JOY expanded its Belize program by placing a staff member in-country to provide consistent, ongoing support to caregivers and organizational leaders.
$98,429 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $532,437.
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 2022 to 2023, from $67k to $147k (+119%).
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: 2021 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of JOY International’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Jeff Brodsky
President & CEO
Board chair
Greg Blake
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $30k.
9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 International’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 International has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
84% 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 International.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 36% · 2021 53% · 2022 72% · 2023 47% — 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
22% of JOY International's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
82% of JOY International'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 $75k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
JOY International has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JOY International
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 JOY International: 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 JOY International?
- JOY International (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,902 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($100,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JOY International have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $426,902 in grants to JOY International, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOY International?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOY International find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing