Alabama · Nonprofit
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,221 to it, the largest being JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC ($250,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Junior Achievement of Alabama Inc does
Mission
The mission of junior achievement is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. Through a network of dedicated classroom mentors from the business community, junior achievement works with students and teachers in grades k-12 to implement curricula focusing on seven key content areas: business, economics, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, workplace readiness, citizenship, and ethics.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The junior achievement elementary school programs include six sequential themes for kindergarten through fifth-grade students. Volunteers present five activities to students, introducing them to the basic concepts of business and economics and how education is relevant to the workplace. The sequential activities build on studies from each preceding grade and prepare students for secondary school and lifelong learning. All elementary school programs are correlated to the alabama course of study for social studies, language arts and math.
$634,989 spent68% of program spendingThe middle school programs for students in grades 6, 7, and 8 build on concepts the students learned in junior achievement's elementary school programs. Volunteers present six activities that help teens make difficult decisions about how to best prepare for their educational and professional future and provide a global and historical perspective to concepts related to entrepreneurship and economics. The junior achievement middle school programs are also correlated to the alabama course of study for social studies, language arts, math and career tech.
$113,404 spent12% of program spendingJunior achievement's high school programs help students make informed, intelligent decisions about their future and foster skills that will be highly useful in the business world. With a wide range of different programs, the volunteers bring real-life business experience and guidance into the classroom at a time that represents an essential crossroads for young people. Also correlated to the alabama course of study, these programs reinforce the value of workforce readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy and serve as supplements to standard social studies curricula.
$135,564 spent15% of program spendingJa job shadow takes students into the workplace to learn about careers. Through this authentic one-day, on-site experience, enhanced with classroom preparatory and follow-up activities, students are introduced to careers and the importance of staying in school.
$47,184 spent5% of program spendingLearning experiences are organized around the three ja pathways: financial literacy, work and careerreadiness, and entrepreneurship. Within each pathway, there are three types of learning experiencesforming a progression of competency-based learning. The first and most basic of the learningexperiences is ja introductory learning experiences (iles) which are used to develop interest for thestudents. Educators select the learning experiences for the students. An educator or volunteer must verify in writing that each ja class was completed in its entirety, with the educator or volunteer, where applicable, completing the required number of class sessions. Verification must be obtained prior to official registration of the class in the ja usa registration system.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $931,141.
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 2024 to 2025, from $9.1M to $19M (+113%).
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 13% · 2022 22% · 2023 1% · 2024 57% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $14k → $78k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Junior Achievement USA). These are real filings, and they are not money JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA 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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
46% 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 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 66% · 2019 80% · 2020 36% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% — 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
60% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
70% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 174 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC
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 Alabama
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ja Alabama Economic Center Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,221 to it, the largest being JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC ($250,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,198,221 in grants to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC?
- JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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