Joyj Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472008133
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6092037614
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,879
- Expenses
- $115,168
- Assets
- $155,236
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michele Marotta (President)
People named in this filing
- Nick Loury (Treasurer)
- Michele Marotta (President)
- Leila Araiche (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission statement is: In a world where connections are increasingly superficial, we aim to foster meaningful human connections by offering unique programs for groups and individuals to provide aid and comfort to those experiencing
What it reported doing in 2025
Program service accomplishment: Approximately 806 volunteers distributed 11,027 care packages to the homeless, bringing us up to 116146 bags with 823487 items since inception.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -29.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.