Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,136,394 to it, the largest being JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ($375,973). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Junior Achievement of South Central Pa does
Mission
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in the global economy. Junior achievement teaches students real world lessons and prepares them for future economic and workforce issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Junior achievement in-class programs: preparing kindergarten through high school students and helping them develop skills for a global workforce.
$689,623 spent34% of program spendingBiztown: this program is the capstone of elementary, 5th or 6th grade students. The program consists of 15 teacher led sessions at school followed by a full day simulation at the biztown facility. Students take on roles as employees and citizens and run the city for the day.
$473,000 spent23% of program spendingYes: half day program held at middle school, consisting of a series of four activities intended to help students gain an appreciation for the importance that financial and career decisions will play in their lives as young adults.
$408,000 spent20% of program spendingJa stem summit: this program is a day long program for 9th or 10th grade students. It consists of 8 or 9 30 minute modules focused on stem careers. Chemistry, biology, math, physics, technology, engineering, trades, electricial careers are part of the event. Expenses $221,000.ja real life: this program is a daylong program for 11th or 12th grade students. It focuses on financial literacy and work readiness. Half the day is a budgeting activity and the other half of the day is 4 30 minute activities. Expenses: $153,000.ja inspire: career development program for 7th-12th grade students. Using virtual technology, local businesses are featured while providing downloadable career information, career videos and live zoom webinars to inspire career-readiness and connect students with local opportunities. Expenses: $80,000.
$454,000 spent22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,024,623.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.6M to $1.3M (−20%).
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: 2020 15% · 2021 37% · 2022 31% · 2023 29% · 2024 21% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Thomas Russell
CEO
Board chair
John Stauffer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $156k → $387k.
9 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SOUTH CENTRAL PA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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 SOUTH CENTRAL PA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 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 SOUTH CENTRAL PA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 19% · 2019 14% · 2020 14% · 2021 14% · 2022 10% · 2023 22% — 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
55% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
66% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $767k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 SOUTH CENTRAL PA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 SOUTH CENTRAL PA: 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 SOUTH CENTRAL PA?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,136,394 to it, the largest being JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ($375,973). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $3,136,394 in grants to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA is the largest funder on record, with $375,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 59 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