California · Nonprofit
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,345,766 to it, the largest being JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ($2,477,816). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Junior Achievement of Southern California Inc does
Mission
Junior achievement of southern california inspires and prepares young people to succeed in a global economy. Our programs teach the business of life, through community-based partnerships of educators, volunteers and businesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Junior achievement's (ja's) vision is to create opportunities for youth to learn from and be inspired by experienced adult volunteers from the business community. Ja programs serve students in all grades k-12 with curriculum built around three core pillars: entrepreneurship, financial education and work readiness. Ja programs are generally provided by volunteers as supplements to regular classroom work. Lessons combine the three pillars around real-world concepts in ways that are grade-appropriate. Ja capstone and field trip experiences outside the classroom include student ja job shadow visits to corporations, class trips to the ja finance park real-life budget simulation, and student competitions where teams in the "ja company program" display their entrepreneurship projects. Ja strives to serve students that are most at-risk, with a focus on the comprehensive "graduation pathways" model, which provides successive years of ja programming to students as they go through their educational career from elementary school to middle and high school.
$3,138,076 spent$464,890 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,138,076.
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 $8.1M to $11M (+33%).
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 16% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC’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
Lester Mccabe
President & CEO
Board chair
Cynthia Jordan
Board member/3de chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $402k → $1.3M.
21 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
68% 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 23% · 2019 25% · 2020 27% · 2021 11% · 2022 59% · 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
34% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,345,766 to it, the largest being JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ($2,477,816). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $9,345,766 in grants to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA is the largest funder on record, with $2,477,816 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 84 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