Junior Achievement of Brazoria County I
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 741489786
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lake Jackson, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9795490800
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $236,769
- Expenses
- $224,006
- Assets
- $835,730
- Liabilities
- $2,253
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lucy Martinez (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Victoria Bailey (Director)
- Stacey Berndt (Director)
- Jimmie Birmingham (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide education and scholarship opportunities for local youth in Brazoria County in finance and business.
What it reported doing in 2024
Junior achievement brazoria county has educated over 360,000 youth in financial literacy, entrepeneurial and work readiness programming for over the past 65 years. Junior achievement helps to bring the many ja programs to brazoria county youth, awarding the students for their dedication to academics as they learn valuable real-life lessons for their future success. Through ja the students of today are learning how to be valued employees of tomorrow, as well as learning how important basic money management is to their future. Ja volunteers still engaged students in 18,296 hours of activity-based lessons in classrooms across the county. These interactions enabled children to have unique experiences to help them "realize what drives economic success, so they can perpetuate it in the future."
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 96% 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 does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 19th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.73; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $196K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.