Illinois · Nonprofit
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,233,557 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($199,889). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $720k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $592k
What Junior Achievement of Central Illinois Inc does
Mission
Junior Achievement of Central Illinois inspires and prepares young people to succeed in the global economy. Our volunteer-delivered, experiential programs give students knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship. Junior Achievement helps to enhance the relevance of students classroom learning and increase their understanding of the value of staying in school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Junior Achievement of Central Illinois is part of the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. Our financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship programs empower students to make a connection between what they learn in school and how it can be applied in the real world. This enhances the relevance of their classroom learning and increases their understanding of the value of staying in school.
$529,919 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $529,919.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $267k to $524k (+96%).
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 21% · 2022 14% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Mary Pille
President & CEO
Board chair
Brendan Kaar
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $67k → $120k.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
73% 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 CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 29% · 2019 24% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 30% · 2023 31% — growing more concentrated.
“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
63% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $506k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,233,557 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($199,889). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,233,557 in grants to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $199,889 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 31 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