Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation

Analysis

Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in E Saint Louis, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover youth development, which this site groups under children and youth development. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation reported income of $4.4m and spending of $4.1m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $4.4m (+183%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 91st percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc ($4.4m), Boys and Girls Clubs of the Lewis Clark Valley Inc ($4.4m) and Generation West Virginia Inc ($4.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% and program service revenue 2.4% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.6m. At year end it held assets of $10.3m against liabilities of $864k, net assets of $9.4m. It reported 85 employees.