Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
042679824
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Boston, MA, USA
Phone
6174829485
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$258,533,218
Expenses
$250,218,622
Assets
$195,824,925
Liabilities
$80,330,061

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

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MUKACHILIMA CHIKUBA (PRESIDENT & CEO (AS OF 10/2024))
  • MARGARET CROTTY (FORMER PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARGARET CROTTY (FORMER PRESIDENT/CEO): $749,074 total reported compensation
  • MUKACHILIMA CHIKUBA (PRESIDENT & CEO (AS OF 10/2024)): $559,563 total reported compensation
  • JANICE CLARK (CHIEF FINANCE & OPERATIONS OFFICER): $494,676 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Jsi is dedicated to improving lives through better health and education outcomes for individuals and communities and to providing an environment where people of passion can pursue this cause.

What it reported doing in 2024

International programs through respectful and intentional partnership, jsi uses evidence-driven, contextually appropriate solutions to advance health and education outcomes for all. With extensive experience and local partnerships, jsi strengthens systems, implements policy, and scales sustainable, high-quality services.in supply chain, jsi ensures access to essential health products from procurement to the last mile, optimizing processes and enhancing capacity. Jsi's data & digital solutions create agile health and education systems, transforming data into actionable insights and enabling interoperability. (see schedule o)as a leader in immunization, jsi provides technical support to strengthen services and policy, from microplanning and vaccine introductions to supply chain and demand optimization. For maternal, newborn, and child health, jsi optimizes service delivery models, improving primary health system quality. Interventions cover maternal health, newborn care, and integrated child care. In infectious diseases, jsi prevents, detects, and responds to threats like tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, and emerging pandemic threats. Jsi strengthens case detection, trains community health workers, optimizes supply chains for emergency response, and modernizes disease surveillance and information systems. World education, a jsi initiative, focuses on education systems and youth development, lifelong learning, and education technology (edtech), improving learning outcomes, expanding access, integrating vocational training, and promoting economic opportunity. Edtech initiatives involve designing learning tools and strengthening learner and educator digital skills.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 88.1%; rating input score 88; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 3.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $211M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $749K · 18 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $127K reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 38 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 215 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 205 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.