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JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE FOUNDATION

EIN 37-1347709 E SAINT LOUIS, IL

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Revenue 2025
$10,941,507
Expenses 2025
$5,550,854

Program services were 89.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O200
Classification
1000
Street
101 JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE CIR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO INSTILL YOUTH IN THE GREATER EAST ST. LOUIS AREA WITH THE DREAM, DRIVE AND DETERMINATION NECESSARY TO SUCEED IN ACADEMICS, ATHLETICS AND LEADERSHIP

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INSTILL YOUTH IN THE GREATER EAST ST. LOUIS AREA WITH THE DREAM, DRIVE AND DETERMINATION NECESSARY TO SUCEED IN ACADEMICS, ATHLETICS AND LEADERSHIP.

  • YOUTH TO BECOME PROFICIENT IN BASIC DISIPLINES, BY APPLYING LEARNING TO EVERYDAY SITUATIONS AND EMBRACING TECHNOLOGY TO ACADEMIC AND CAREER SUCCESS. LEARNING THROUGH THE JJK ACADEMY.

    Expenses $2,465,979 · Revenue $281,022

  • CACFP AND SFSP: PROVIDING HEALTHY FOOD FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER SO KIDS CAN LEARN AND GROW AND BECOME HEALTHY ADULTS (FOOD PROGRAM).

    Expenses $1,017,845 · Revenue $190,625

  • JJK FOOD AGRICULTURE INNOVATION CENTER: HELPING STUDENTS EMBRACE A FOUNDATION OF NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WHILE DISCOVERING THEIR ROLES FOR ACHIEVING AN ECONOMICALLY STRONGER EAST ST. LOUIS (JJK FAN).

    Expenses $635,803

  • ENABLE YOUTH TO BECOME PROFICIENT IN BASIC DISIPLINES, BY APPLYINGLEARNING TO EVERYDAY SITUATIONS AND EMBRACING TECHNOLOGY TO ACADEMICAND CAREER SUCCESS. LEARNING THROUGH VARIOUS MEDIUMS INCLUDING SPORTS,FITNESS, RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES ECT.

    Expenses $838,228 · Grants $1,500 · Revenue $83,767

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Michelle K Sherod

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Lorri A Rippelmeyer

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Chuck Gulledge

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Mark Mestemacher

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Brian K Leonard Sr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Keith Ward

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jeffrey L Reed Sr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • James McEvilly

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jerina Phillips

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jospeh Mark

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Drexel Stith

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Robert Chambers

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Stephen Barr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Norma Bellcoff

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Ernest Smiley

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Troy Rutherford

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jay Martin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Tim Slater

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Tracy Session

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jackie Joyner-Kersee

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $179,654
    From this org
    $179,654
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,654
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $179,654
  • Alex Fennoy

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Mark Fryer

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $132,095
    From this org
    $132,095
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Loeffler

    CHIEF FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $119,595
    From this org
    $119,595
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $10,941,507
    Expenses
    $5,550,854
    Contributions
    $9,794,652
    Grants paid
    $1,500
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $17,429,122
    Expenses
    $4,934,207
    Contributions
    $15,630,632
    Grants paid
    $20,900
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,365,384
    Expenses
    $4,064,429
    Contributions
    $2,535,856
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,871,398
    Expenses
    $3,703,407
    Contributions
    $3,350,345
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,358,244
    Expenses
    $2,634,054
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,631,994
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,531,191
    Expenses
    $2,196,955
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,797,254
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,543,818
    Expenses
    $1,924,769
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,287,489
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,744,593
    Expenses
    $1,623,726
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,626,553
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,947,983
    Expenses
    $1,504,500
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,542,505
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,953,644
    Expenses
    $1,461,298
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,257,511
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $841,528
    Expenses
    $972,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,613,627

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.