North Carolina · Nonprofit
SKJAJA Fund
SKJAJA Fund (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,813 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($102,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $12k
What SKJAJA Fund does
Mission
SKJAJA Funds mission is to level the playing field so that all youth grades k-12 have access to extracurricular and service opportunities that ignite their spark, deepen their connections to community and strengthen their leadership skills. Extracurricular activities may include: school orchestra or band, recreational sports, sports equipment and / or attire, camps, tutoring, school field trips, enrichment classes, swim lessons.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Scholarships: skjaja pays registration fees and / or equipment costs for students to participate in extracurricular athletic, education, and arts programs.
$22,449 spent89% of program spendingPlay it forward: a skjaja program established to ensure that every student in chccs with a desire to participate in school band and orchestra programs has the instrument they need to enroll. Skjaja collects, refurbishes, and repairs previously owned band and orchestra instruments. Then skjaja partners with middle and high school band and orchestra teachers to ensure every student who needs an instrument has one. This program served 35 students last year.
$2,697 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,146.
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 2020 to 2021, from $30k to $161k (+439%).
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.
100% of SKJAJA Fund’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Mariela Hernandez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $41k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 SKJAJA Fund’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
SKJAJA Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
82% 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 SKJAJA Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 84% · 2022 51% · 2023 50% — 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
40% of SKJAJA Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
82% of SKJAJA Fund'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SKJAJA Fund's revenue fell 39% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SKJAJA Fund
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SKJAJA Fund: 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 SKJAJA Fund?
- SKJAJA Fund (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,813 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($102,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SKJAJA Fund have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $180,813 in grants to SKJAJA Fund, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKJAJA Fund?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $102,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKJAJA Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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