Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,302,651 to it, the largest being JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ($607,779). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania Inc does
Mission
Junior achievement's mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. Junior achievement teaches students in grades k-12 how to manage money, how to prepare for a career or college, and how to run a business. Junior achievement empowers students to make a connection between what they learn in school and how it can be applied in the real world, thereby enhancing the relevance of their classroom learning and increasing their understanding of the value of staying in school. Our relevant experiential programs are offered at little or no cost to schools and align with national and local curriculum standards. During the 2024 school year, we partnered with local schools and over 3,030 volunteers to teach our curriculum to over 57,787 local students in western pennsylvania
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
K-12 in-class programs: through ja's proven in-classroom programs, jawpa empowered 57,787 youth in kindergarten through age 25, in 279 schools to own their future success. Our hands-on, age-appropriate programs were delivered by 3,030 corporate and community volunteer mentors. Our traditional in-classroom programs give students important knowledge and skills around financial literacy, work readiness, entrepreneurship and prepare them to think critically. Our survey shows that 95% of educators would recommend the programs to fellow educators. Furthermore, elementary school students who receive junior achievement programs demonstrate significantly higher (27% higher) critical thinking and problem-solving skills than their counterparts.ja biztown program: jawpa's ja biztown is an experiential learning program that helps students connect what they learn in the classroom to the real world. The curriculum requires 4-6th grade students to participate in 12, teacher led of classroom instruction where they work together to create business plans, calculate operating costs, design a marketing campaign and apply for jobs, vote for city officials, and explore careers. Upon completion of the…
$3,073,969 spentof which $400,500 as grants$476,510 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,073,969.
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 $4.3M to $5.9M (+38%).
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: 2019 4% · 2020 15% · 2021 13% · 2023 9% · 2024 14% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 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. 7 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.
Board chair
Rebekah Kcehowski
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $286k → $457k.
12 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 19% · 2019 16% · 2020 14% · 2021 21% · 2022 27% · 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
44% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
64% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $819k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$50k
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 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Junior Achievement USA · exempt
- Ja Empowerment LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: 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 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,302,651 to it, the largest being JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ($607,779). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $3,302,651 in grants to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA is the largest funder on record, with $607,779 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC 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 76 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