Mississippi · Nonprofit
REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE
REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE (Mississippi) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $723,483 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($499,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $740k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $723k
- Net assets
- $-9103
What Refill Jackson Initiative does
Mission
To empower youth by providing an innovative and holistic job training and life skills program.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Refill Jackson Initiative (rji) engaged 30 disconnected youth (ages 18-24) in its workforce development training programs in 2024, its 9 week training program and its 5 month on-the-job training program. Rji held 3 cohorts of the 9-week program (20-22), and began a new 5-month program, green corps, in september of 2024. The launch of green corps, an americorps environmental training program, was the highlight of 2024 - 8 members completed osha-10, first aid, cpr, and water quality monitoring certifications, and completed park restoration, trail clearing, and neighborhood revitalization projects in west jackson.rji's staff has worked hard to develop strong relationships with social services providers to effectively match members with the resources they need to succeed in the program, and to take full advantage of refill's programming. The logistics of accessing any one of these resources, let alone multiple, while fully participating in the short, intensive program make this a notable achievement, and a significant step toward self sufficiency for the members. Rji's team has become proficient at coaching members on overcoming their barriers to employment, 84% of graduates to date…
$552,897 spent$2,826 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $552,897.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $227k to $719k (+217%).
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 20% · 2020 37% · 2021 89% · 2022 80% · 2023 83% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Caitlin Brooking
Secretary/pres & CEO
Board chair
Ladarion Ammons
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $41k → $148k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 36% · 2022 50% · 2023 88% — 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 REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% 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
REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $108k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$108k
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 REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Refill Cafe LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE: 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 REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE?
- REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE (Mississippi) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $723,483 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($499,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $723,483 in grants to REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $499,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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