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JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY (Ohio) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,900 to it, the largest being YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL ($275,015). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$547k
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$946k
Net assets
$619k
24/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Junior Achievement of Mahoning Valley does

Mission

Junior Achievement of Mahoning Valley empowers young people across ashtabula, mahoning, and trumbull counties by providing them with the knowledge and skills necessary to make informed decisions, solve problems creatively, manage finances effectively, and become socially responsible individuals. This is achieved through experiential learning programs facilitated by volunteers from the business community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Junior Achievement of Mahoning Valley reached 17,196 students in 504 classrooms during the 2024-2025 school year. 209 volunteers gave 162,487 contact hours of their time and talents in 81 schools to work with the young people in our community. These passionate volunteers, investors, educators, and local leaders are individuals who care enough to make a difference in a child's life through the enrichment with the ja experience. For many children, experiencing ja is seeing an activity and visualizing a future where their dreams can become reality.

    $418,243 spent$6,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $418,243.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($331k) Expenses 100 ($343k) Net assets 100 ($237k)2020 Revenue 88 ($292k) Expenses 92 ($316k) Net assets 90 ($214k)2021 Revenue 93 ($307k) Expenses 85 ($293k) Net assets 108 ($257k)2022 Revenue 117 ($387k) Expenses 94 ($322k) Net assets 124 ($295k)2023 Revenue 106 ($350k) Expenses 102 ($349k) Net assets 128 ($305k)2024 Revenue 213 ($703k) Expenses 145 ($496k) Net assets 223 ($529k)2025 Revenue 166 ($547k) Expenses 138 ($474k) Net assets 261 ($619k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (166)Expenses (138)Net assets (261)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $399k to $638k (+60%).

$313k
$328k
$416k
$362k
$399k
$638k
$700k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 36% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,947 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’19
−$24k
’20
$14k
’21
$65k
’22
$1k
’23
$207k
’24
$73k
’25
6.2
months of
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

Gregg Warner

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed41403741394232
Joined·+6+9+10+8+8+4
No longer listed·712610514
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $87k → $56k.

6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 MAHONING VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 MAHONING VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

50% 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 MAHONING VALLEY.

29%
largest funder
55%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 57% · 2019 64% · 2020 40% · 2021 33% · 2022 24% · 2023 27% — 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

67% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 MAHONING VALLEY draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 8 states in all.

IL
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $338k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve6.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 7%Fundraising 4%

Governance

31
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY?
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY (Ohio) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,900 to it, the largest being YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL ($275,015). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $945,900 in grants to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY?
YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL is the largest funder on record, with $275,015 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 33 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