Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
810792145
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2024809597
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Interfaith Coalitions
Affiliation
Interfaith

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$615,468
Expenses
$822,099
Assets
$546,447
Liabilities
$123,868

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MAURICE BLOEM (INTERIM PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • RIMA ALSHAWKANI (FINANCE & OPERATIONS MANAGER): $115,851 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To improve the quality, management, and accessibility of resources that will strengthen the capacity of faith-based groups to develop and implement humanitarian goals.

What it reported doing in 2024

Publications and collaborations: during the year, jli expanded its work on the fair and equitable initiative by continuing to support the work of existing regional learning hubs in east africa, syria, and the middle east, as well as continuing to support the establishment of new regional hubs in south east asia and southern africa. Jli has also organized 11 virtual events, 7 in-person events, and participated in more than 11 conferences. Jli's agreements with united nations children's fund ("unicef") global hq covering south asia, east and southern africa, and west and central africa ("wcar"), as well as with the unicef latin america and caribbean regional office ("lacro"), concluded in 2024. Subsequently, jli entered into two new agreements with unicef under the fpcc initiative: one with unicef lacro and another with the unicef south asia regional office ("rosa"). Additionally, jli provided support to samuel hall in the fpcc meal framework.throughout the year, jli collaborated with its member organizations on several research projects, which will form chapters in the second edition of its state of the evidence in religions in development navigator. These included a joint effort with multiple jli members exploring faith perspectives on localization and decolonization; a project on faith and climate migration in partnership with christian aid; and two additional studies-one on faith and hunger/nutrition and another on mental health and psychosocial support-both supported by world vision international. Jli carried out research for act alliance titled "30 years on: faith in the international conference on population and development ("icpd") program of action: how faith actors advance sexual and reproductive health and rights." jli also conducted formative research to scope sre needs, gaps and existing engagement in indonesia for international partnership for religion and sustainable development ("pard"). Jli finalized the development and piloting of a training on religions & development research course in kenya, malawi, the philippines, south africa and sri lanka under trinity church wall street. Jli is part of an ambitious three-year project funded by the templeton religions trust to implement strategic religious engagement ("sre") in four countries (philippines, ghana, senegal, sri lanka) led by the world faiths development dialogue.

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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -33.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $637K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.