Jackie Joyner Kersee Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371347709
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- East Saint Louis, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6185155450
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,941,507
- Expenses
- $5,550,854
- Assets
- $51,704,453
- Liabilities
- $21,165,393
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHELLE K SHEROD (PRESIDENT)
- ALEX FENNOY (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE (CHAIRMAN): $179,654 total reported compensation
- MARK FRYER (CFO): $132,095 total reported compensation
- SCOTT LOEFFLER (CHIEF FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE OFFICER): $119,595 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To instill youth in the greater east st. Louis area with the dream, drive and determination necessary to suceed in academics, athletics and leadership
What it reported doing in 2025
Enable youth to become proficient in basic disiplines, by applyinglearning to everyday situations and embracing technology to academicand career success. Learning through various mediums including sports, fitness, recreational activities ect.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.9%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $729.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 49.3%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.31; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.9% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $180K · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $118K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 36 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.