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JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,722,549 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($579,450). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Junior Achievement of Central Indiana Inc does
Mission
To empower young people to own their future success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ja in-school - ja in-school programs include sequential, age-appropriate themes for students in grades pre-k - 12th grade. Volunteers from the business community receive training and materials, preparing them to make weekly visits to local classrooms to share their professional knowledge and lead hands-on activities. Students learn many concepts of business and economics and how education is relevant to the workplace. Ja's in-school programs expose students to business professionals and help prepare and inspire students to achieve their potential. Ja in-school includes ja biztown summer camp. (continued on schedule o)ja biztown summer camp is a five-day summer program that focuses on financial literacy, work-readiness skills, and entrepreneurship with an additional emphasis on the importance of philanthropy within the community. Based on the ja biztown program for 5th grade students, ja biztown summer camp is appropriate for children ages 9-13. Facilitated by both the organization staff and guest speakers from local companies and service organizations, campers prepare for the task of managing their own businesses and developing their own business plan.
$1,042,117 spentof which $960 as grants$36,088 earned by the program37% of program spendingJa jobspark - ja jobspark is a hands-on two-day career expo for 8th graders. The event is meant to "spark" an interest in students and get them excited for their future. Students learn about skills needed for jobs that will be in demand when they graduate, while utilizing equipment that is used in those jobs daily. They will have a better understanding of the courses they would need to take in high school, a track for post-secondary education, and a clear career pathway for what they find they are interested in.
$936,560 spentof which $19,550 as grants$19,550 earned by the program33% of program spendingJa biztown - ja biztown allows students to put their classroom learning to work as they practice decision-making and learn about leadership and teamwork. Students discover the real-life opportunities available in the free enterprise system, as they become business operators, taxpayers, and lawmakers of ja biztown. In addition, ja biztown helps teach basic math, economics, technology, social studies, and reading and writing concepts in a way that is fun for students.
$825,789 spentof which $163,881 as grants$471,423 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,804,466.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $6.9M (+438%).
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: 2023 12% · 2024 23% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Sarah Hempstead
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $176k → $336k.
10 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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: $4.4M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Junior Achievement USA). These are real filings, and they are not money JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 INDIANA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
67% 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 INDIANA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 79% · 2019 47% · 2020 55% · 2021 29% · 2022 41% · 2023 43% — 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
47% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
50% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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 INDIANA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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
- Junior Achievement USA · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,722,549 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($579,450). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,722,549 in grants to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $579,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 42 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