Florida · Nonprofit
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,607 to it, the largest being ESTHER B O'KEEFFE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $318k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $186k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Junior League of the Palm Beaches Inc does
Mission
The junior league of the palm beaches is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training. The junior league welcomes all women who value our mission statement. We are committed to inclusive environments of diverse individuals, organizations and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The period supply bank program continued to address period poverty by distributing more than 200,000 period supplies during the 2024-2025 league year and surpassing a cumulative milestone of more than 1,000,000 supplies distributed since the program's inception in 2020. The program provided supplies to 13 allied nonprofit partners and expanded partnerships to increase community reach.
$23,603 spent15% of program spendingThe jlpb little libraries initiative aims to promote literacy and reading among elementary students who attend title 1 or low income schools in palm beach county. Miniature libraries are strategically placed in easily accessible locations within the school property, providing a convenient way for students to borrow, exchange, and engage with a variety of books they would like to read. Jlpb has already established and provided books for little libraries at 22 palm beach county title 1 schools. As part of our ongoing commitment to literacy, jlpb members volunteered 166 hours for literacy and creativity and donated 1,975 books. Through its free little libraries program, the league installed 15 new libraries during the fiscal year, and has installed 22 libraries cumulatively at title I elementary school campuses, distributing more than 4,500 books to promote literacy and access to reading materials.
$3,894 spent2% of program spendingSince 1968, more than 1,000 children have participated in jlpb's eye and ear alert program, which provides free vision and hearing screenings to preschoolers and young children to detect possible concerns for affective correction. The program provides onsite screenings throughout the year in palm beach county. The league's eye & ear alert program provided free vision and hearing screenings to preschool and early elementary school children. During the year, screenings were conducted at five schools, with trained volunteers contributing over 186 volunteer hours, including a special outreach screening event in pahokee to serve an underserved community.
$6,049 spent4% of program spendingThe junior league of the palm beaches advanced its mission through education, health, and basic needs initiatives serving children and families in palm beach county. Through their done in a day (diad) program, jlpb served an average of 5 shifts per month and served 17 community partners. In this program, jlpb volunteers are able to quickly respond to their communities needs by working with partner organizations for a variety of projects, including food insecurity programs like the food bank, riviera beach urban farm, c.r.o.s. Ministries, and red apple school supplies. The president's leadership series was introduced in 2023-2024 to teach women about the nuts and bolts of running non-profits, including best governance practices,nonprofit finance, managing others, and fundraising practices. The training empowered over 80 women to continue to pursue their leadership roles in jlpb. The program received an award from the association of junior leagues international for providing mission based value to members and for better preparing volunteers to impact the community as a whole.
$126,020 spent79% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $159,566.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $1.8M (+23%).
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.
58% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $7k → $11k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 PALM BEACHES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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 PALM BEACHES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 PALM BEACHES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 62% · 2020 94% · 2021 56% · 2022 89% · 2023 88% — 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
29% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
99% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 PALM BEACHES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC?
- JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,607 to it, the largest being ESTHER B O'KEEFFE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $185,607 in grants to JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC?
- ESTHER B O'KEEFFE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 16 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