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THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION

THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,902 to it, the largest being THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$250
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$33k
Net assets
$216k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What The Jarrett Payton Foundation does

Program

  1. Positively imapcting the lives of childrens and adolescents

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($47k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($156k)2018 Revenue 107 ($50k) Expenses 146 ($53k) Net assets 98 ($153k)2019 Revenue 98 ($46k) Expenses 68 ($25k) Net assets 112 ($174k)2020 Revenue 60 ($28k) Expenses 44 ($16k) Net assets 119 ($186k)2021 Revenue 25 ($12k) Expenses 34 ($12k) Net assets 119 ($185k)2022 Revenue 120 ($56k) Expenses 53 ($19k) Net assets 143 ($223k)2023 Revenue 44 ($20k) Expenses 27 ($10k) Net assets 150 ($233k)2024 Revenue 5 ($2k) Expenses 28 ($10k) Net assets 145 ($225k)2025 Revenue 1 ($250) Expenses 27 ($10k) Net assets 139 ($216k)
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Revenue (1)Expenses (27)Net assets (139)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $185k to $223k (+20%).

$156k
$153k
$174k
$186k
$185k
$223k
$233k
$225k
$216k
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Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,568 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
−$3k
’18
$21k
’19
$12k
’20
−$648
’21
$37k
’22
$11k
’23
−$8k
’24
−$9k
’25

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

Trisha Payton

Executive director

Board chair

Lissa Druss

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $2k → $249.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION’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

THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION.

61%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 80% — 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.

Where its funders are

THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.

NY
CA
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’20
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−3759% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−48% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,984 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION?
THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,902 to it, the largest being THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $32,902 in grants to THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION?
THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE JARRETT PAYTON FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing