Indiana · Nonprofit
OUT OF A JAM INC
OUT OF A JAM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $697,498 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($240,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $327k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $697k
- Net assets
- $292k
What Out of a Jam Inc does
Mission
Out of a jam has a vision to nurture and educate youth and women, a plan to save overstocked foods to feed the less fortunate & a program to guide students toward a successful path in life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Feeding fort wayne uses the skills and tools we have to capture much of the unwanted, overstocked and forgotten foods and transition them into healthy, delicious meals for thousands of families in real need.
$112,329 spent38% of program spendingWell served is the catering division with a mission to expose students to the concepts and principles of culinary arts. Students learn the knowledge and skills required to perform the functions of food service personnel.
$94,331 spent$96,748 earned by the program32% of program spendingThe essentials cooking class program trains high school juniors and seniors with life skills and provides opportunities for serv safe certifications and high school credits.
$37,882 spent13% of program spendingThe food truck employs students in a summer work program selling upscale sandwiches to the fort wayne area and the surrounding community. We continue to sell jams made by students in the program and host a shop, cook & eat program designed to teach busy moms how to plan and prepare good food in 30 minutes or less.
$49,353 spent$25,349 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $293,895.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $194k to $517k (+167%).
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: 2021 13% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of OUT OF A JAM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Melanee Findley
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $21k → $324k.
5 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 OUT OF A JAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
OUT OF A JAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
28% 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 OUT OF A JAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 41% · 2019 50% · 2020 73% · 2021 43% · 2022 36% · 2023 74% — 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
33% of OUT OF A JAM 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
78% of OUT OF A JAM INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
OUT OF A JAM INC has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OUT OF A JAM 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUT OF A JAM 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 OUT OF A JAM INC?
- OUT OF A JAM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $697,498 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($240,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUT OF A JAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $697,498 in grants to OUT OF A JAM INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUT OF A JAM INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUT OF A JAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 34 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