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JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,557,569 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($414,450). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland does
Mission
Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland is part of the worlds 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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Junior achievements elementary school programs are the foundation of its k-12 curricula. Seven sequential themes each with five hands-on activities work to change students lives by helping them understand business and economics. These programs include: ja ourselves ja our families ja our community ja our city ja our region ja our nation and ja more than money.
$250,238 spent25% of program spendingMiddle grade programs build on concepts which students learned in jas elementary school programs and help teens make difficult decisions about how best to prepare for their educational and professional future. The programs supplement standard social studies curricula and develop communication skills that are essential to success in the business world. These programs include: ja global marketplace ja economics for success ja its my future and ja its my business. Junior achievement also provides capstone experiences for middle school students through ja inspire a career exploration program that includes workshops and a career fair.
$316,490 spent32% of program spendingAs high school students begin to position themselves for their future there are many questions about what lies ahead. Jas high school programs help students make informed intelligent decisions about their future and foster skills that will be highly useful in the business world. These programs include: ja be entrepreneurial ja excellence and ethics ja company program ja titan ja career success ja personal finance ja job shadow ja launch lesson and ja economics. Junior achievement also provides capstone experiences for students in high school through ja inspire a career exploration program that includes workshops and a career fair and the stock market challenge a program that teaches students about stocks trading and investing through in-classroom curricula and a competition.
$423,184 spent43% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $989,912.
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 $1.3M to $2.1M (+58%).
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: 2022 13% · 2023 5% · 2024 32% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Albert Difranco
CEO and President
Board chair
Theresa Mistysyn
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $64k → $409k.
8 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 GREATER CLEVELAND’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 GREATER CLEVELAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 GREATER CLEVELAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 25% · 2019 18% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 16% · 2023 30% — 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
58% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
69% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $867k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 GREATER CLEVELAND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,557,569 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($414,450). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,557,569 in grants to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $414,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing