Wisconsin · Nonprofit
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 177 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,684,209 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ($790,161). 107 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 177
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
Junior achievement of wisconsin, inc. Serves a franchised area of ja usa, inc. The organization was created for the purpose of enhancing wisconsin's economic vitality by providing young people and the changing workforce with experience-based economic education through partnerships that are responsive to business, education, and community needs. The organization prepares young people to successfully navigate their economic future through learning experiences that simulate future success and support career discovery. Ja programs provide students with the financial literacy, entrepreneurship and work readiness skills that they will need to become responsible citizens and succeed in a global economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Elementary grade programs - students learn the basic concepts of business and economics and how making smart financial decisions benefits their family and community. The sequential activities build on studies from each preceding grade and prepare students for secondary school and lifelong learning. Volunteers inspire students to think about making choices for future success. Middle grade programs students learn about careers and tools to find a career path in which they can be successful and support their family and community. Community volunteers guide students through activities and discussion to learn vital life skills, such as financial planning/budgeting, developing a personal brand, and making ethical deicisions. High school programs - builds on what students have learned to make informed, intelligent decisions about their future and fosters skills that will be highly useful in the workforce. With a range of different programs, ja teaches concepts relating to entrepreneurship, financial literacy and work readiness. Volunteers bring real-life business experience and guidance into the classroom at a time that represents an essential crossroads for young people.
$2,819,224 spentof which $64,250 as grants$211,032 earned by the program66% of program spendingJa biztown and ja finance park are reality-based, hands-on learning programs. Through daily lessons, hands-on activities, and active participation in an interactive simulation, students develop a strong understanding of the relationship between what they learn in school and their successful participation in an economy and the principles of budgeting.ja biz town takes 4th-6th grade students into the world of business and the economy of a community, as they become "adults for the day". They assume roles of producers, consumers and investors. Students learn how to create and manage a business, as well as make smart financial decisions to benefit themselves, their family, and their community. Volunteers assist students in making choices for their business and provide career exploration opportunities.ja finance park introduces middle and high school students to personal finance and career exploration. During their time at ja finance park, students receive randomly assigned live scenarios, including family, career, and financial situation. Volunteers guide the students to: create and maintain a balanced family budget, use banking services, arrange for housing and transportation, and…
$1,369,927 spent$119,383 earned by the program32% of program spendingA new program designed to systematically re-engineer high school education and expand economic opportunity for all students was launched during the 2023-24 school year in two milwaukee high schools. 3de by the organization collaborates with local and national case partners to develop real-life business challenges that are incorporated into the high school curriculum. Students study the case problems, examining them through the lenses of each of their core classrooms. At the end of each six-week period, student cohorts present their solutions to the case partners.the organization is composed of 13 areas as shown on the supplementary schedule and includes the junior achievement women's association (jawa). Jawa's purpose is to promote the objectives of the organization, including raising funds to further such objectives.
$112,993 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,302,144.
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 2021 to 2022, from $26M to $23M (−12%).
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 1% · 2021 22% · 2022 14% · 2023 2% · 2024 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Susan Fronk
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 79 funders, grant income rose $630k → $882k.
29 of 177 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 177 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 WISCONSIN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
49% 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 WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 25% · 2019 48% · 2020 11% · 2021 10% · 2022 13% · 2023 7% — 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
44% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
75% of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 WISCONSIN INC's funding base is broadening — from 36 funders to 79 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC?
- JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 177 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,684,209 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ($790,161). 107 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 177 organizations giving $7,684,209 in grants to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC, 107 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC is the largest funder on record, with $790,161 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 177 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