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JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $905,714 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($418,328). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $906k
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Junior League of the City of New York Inc does
Mission
The junior league of the city of new york, inc., is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nyjl's volunteer training and leadership development programs for the league's volunteers and new yorkers train women across new york with an emphasis on philanthropic values, board governance skills, and current nonprofit and community issues. The league builds on volunteers' skills by offering hands-on workshops, expert panels, committee assignments, and leadership positions that train women on timely community issues and instill practical skills for managing a nonprofit organization. Additionally, the league's leadership development program prepares the league's volunteers for future leadership positions at the league, at other nonprofit organizations, and in the community, creating a ripple effect in female leadership across the city.
$1,444,414 spent$497,818 earned by the program55% of program spendingSee schedule oduring 2024-2025, the nyjl serves thousands of individuals through its community programs. Volunteers design and lead lessons, workshops, field trips, and support shifts through approximately 60 community-based organizations. The league serves additional community partners through on-demand volunteer opportunities such as delivering meals, tutoring students, supporting community meals and food pantries, and sorting and bundling donations. The league works across several areas of community and training programming, including:adult education and mentoring: working with organizations like the english-speaking union, the league supports clients, from young adults to seniors, as they transition out of foster care, homelessness, rehabilitation programs, or the criminal justice system to forge a path to independent living by delivering life skills workshops, covering topics such as financial literacy, job search skills, budgeting, and healthy meal preparation. As clients face economic hardships and health challenges and recover from traumatic events, the league's volunteers help connect clients to resources and provide companionship.children's education, culture, and the…
$1,180,466 spent45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,624,880.
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 $9.2M to $6.4M (−31%).
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: 2022 6% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Lynn Clark
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $54k → $125k.
8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 40% · 2019 36% · 2020 39% · 2021 43% · 2022 59% · 2023 37% — 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
40% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
77% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $209k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $697k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $906k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 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 New York
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
96%
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 LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC?
- JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $905,714 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($418,328). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $905,714 in grants to JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $418,328 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 36 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