Colorado · Nonprofit
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $974,801 to it, the largest being JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ($226,061). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $150k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $975k
- Net assets
- $0
What Junior Achievement of Southern Colorado Inc does
Mission
Ja soco is dedicated to unlocking the potential within each young individual by providing free, high-quality educational programs that merge academic learning with real world economic principles and financial literacy.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Ja soco expanded its reach by 25.3%, serving 19,938 students, 53.9% of whom face economic hardships, as indicated by their qualification for free or reduced lunch. Our zero-cost policy ensures that all students can experience ja programs, regardless of financial circumstances. In partnership with 638 educators and 817 dedicated volunteers who provided 97,369 hours of mentorship, we connected local schools with an additional 3.4m in community resources, calculated at the national estimated hourly rate of 35 per volunteer hour. This contribution, in addition to our operating budget funded by community, corporate, and foundation partners, demonstrates the strength of community support in amplifying educational impact and empowering young people across greater colorado to lead adult lives full of choice and opportunity.
$119,559 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $119,559.
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 2025 to 2026, from $1.5M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 27% · 2022 13% · 2024 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 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
Alex Cooke
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $65k → $160k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 COLORADO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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 COLORADO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
73% 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 COLORADO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 38% · 2019 47% · 2020 34% · 2021 29% · 2022 39% · 2023 48% — 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
46% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO 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
69% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k 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 SOUTHERN COLORADO INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 52 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$60k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
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 COLORADO INC?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $974,801 to it, the largest being JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ($226,061). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $974,801 in grants to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA is the largest funder on record, with $226,061 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 24 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