Junior Achievement of Georgia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 580598050
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4042571932
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,082,581
- Expenses
- $15,689,071
- Assets
- $32,365,998
- Liabilities
- $544,785
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
91 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Hancock (President & CEO)
- Camille Russo (Vice President of Marketing)
- Danielle Wilkes (Vice President of Development)
- Alicia Furlow (Vice President of Human Resources)
- Matthew Hodgson (Vice President of Information Technology)
Highest reported compensation
- John Hancock (President & CEO): $539,261 total reported compensation
- Amanda N Salvaticus (VP of Volunteer Strategy & Partnerships): $224,415 total reported compensation
- Danielle Wilkes (Vice President of Development): $171,436 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through the time, talent, and resources of corporate, education, and community partners, Junior Achievement of Georgia inspires and prepares young people, K-12th grade, to succeed in a global economy. All programs align with Georgia's performance standards teaching students about personal financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and global workforce readiness while equipping them with the tools to be personally and professionally successful.
What it reported doing in 2024
3DE by Junior Achievement is a pioneering high school instructional model that transforms education into dynamic, real-world learning experiences. This innovative educational approach is anchored in competency-based case methodology and introduces students to 16 real-world case experiences throughout grades 9-12.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 99
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 98.8%; rating input score 99; 31st 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: 8.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.06; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.2% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 83 of 84 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $539K · 91 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.9M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.