2025-10-14T17:12:12-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 201615870 GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION GOOD 3142299079 PO Box 23016 Saint Louis MO 63156 Dionne Ferguson Executive Director 3142299079 2025-05-16 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Dionne Ferguson 5046 Vernon Avenue St Louis MO 63113 236159 0 X https://www.goodjourney.org X 2004 MO GOOD JOURNEY SUPPORTS & BUILDS SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES & YOUNG LEADERS WHO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF OUR COMMUNITIES, AND WHO PROMOTE CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY. 6 6 1 50 0 0 111425 235721 751 438 0 0 0 0 112176 236159 1220 0 0 1 42293 68407 2020 0 11348 214570 206174 260103 274582 -147927 -38423 53403 14980 0 0 53403 14980 GOOD JOURNEY SUPPORTS & BUILDS SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES & YOUNG LEADERS WHO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF OUR COMMUNITIES, AND WHO PROMOTE CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY. 0 0 82930 82930 82930 Our Community Our World (Community Leadership Building, Self-Healing, Resiliency & Social Justice Leadership Development) Our Community Our World is a year-long program to develop youth leaders who actively work to improve their community and individual circumstances through self-awareness, educational, career, community involvement and development workshops, and cultural exchanges. Through weekly sessions, youth manage an urban farm, produce podcasts, create, and enact community improvement projects, volunteer in community, manage social media, and prepare to organize to address racism and social injustices, and develop skills needed for global youth leadership and cultural exchanges. Our Community Our World program youth participate in Bustani Ya Upenda (Garden of Love), Second Look Podcast, Social Media Content Creation & Management, LIVE Black Youth Corps Community Involvement & Cultural Exchange, and History Maker Marker Project. 51831 51831 51831 Summer Leadership Academy (Academic Enhancement and Leadership Development) Summer Leadership Academy is a multi-week summer program that engages youth in academic enrichment, community projects, culture and arts projects, educational field experiences and fun and engaging activities that teach communication, life, and leadership skills. Participating youth learned about, visited, and reported on Black Growers in St. Louis. Older youth facilitate sessions on gardening, robotics, poetry and more. Youth share the values of collective work, responsibility, and unity, and knowledge they gained throughout the summer program with the community at the conclusion of their Summer Leadership Academy experience. 72564 72564 72564 Xpress U Thru Art (Youth Healing Arts) A multi-week program in which young people explore trauma, oppression, emotions, and build skills in resiliency, self and community care, and the ability to positively project internally and externally through the creation of art. The teaching artist guides young people in their work through 14 sessions and multiple art projects that speak to who they are and what they feel. The partnering counselor helps young people learn to communicate their experiences to reinforce and build upon their humanity to create space for healing Xpress U Thru Art youth make healthier life choices and develop as leaders. 0 0 0 207325 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 27 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 6 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 X X X Good Journey Development Foundation 3142299079 PO Box 23016 Saint Louis MO 63156 Dionne Ferguson Executive Director 35 0 X X X 68407 0 0 Iris Ferguson Treasurer 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Denise Cage Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Dr Nikki Smith President 2 0 X X X 0 0 0 Carlton Mitchell Board Member 1.00 0 X X 0 0 0 Bisa Adero Secretary 1 0 X X X 0 0 0 Heaven Uhuru Board Member 0.5 0 X X 0 0 0 68407 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 24213 0 118234 93274 0 235721 438 0 0 438 438 0 0 0 0 24213 0 236159 0 0 438 X 1 1 55073 37814 17259 13334 9334 4000 126071 126071 5807 3007 2800 32055 15940 16115 5495 1832 3663 6238 3119 3119 12357 7346 5011 4292 2861 1431 13859 2511 11348 274582 207325 55909 11348 53403 14980 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53403 14980 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 5000 1500 48403 13480 53403 14980 53403 14980 -38423 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 72092 207369 246373 111425 235721 872980 250 559 4500 751 428 6488 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 72342 207928 250873 112176 236149 879468 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879468 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 72342 207928 250873 112176 236149 879468 1 1 0 0 X Good Journey Island Jam 24213 0 24213 1810 1402 1812 3758 1200 1366 0 0 24213 0 24213 1810 1402 1812 3758 1200 1366 11348 12865 X X X 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Dionne Ferguson Executive Director 68407 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68407 0 0 0 Schedule J, Part I, Line 3 The board reviewed local and national standards for salaries of nonprofit executive directors with comparable size organizations. Schedule J, Part I, Line 5 Payment of staff is dependent upon annual revenue and receipt of payment by funders Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Iris Ferguson, mother of executive director Dionne Ferguson, is a board member. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The 990 is provided to governing board members and uploaded to the organization website. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Governing board members and staff are required to review and complete the organization's conflict of interest policy. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 In 2024, board leadership researched to find an average salary for an Executive Director in Missouri and used this data to set the new salary. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Governing documents and conflict of interest forms are not made available online. They can be requested. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g $126071 for individual program contract services for more than 20 temporary (short-term) Contractors for programs including Xpress U Thru Art, Our Community Our World, and Summer Leadership Academy. Ex. Xpress U Thru Art contractors include Teaching Artists and Counselors who are contracted to facilitate Good Journey's Xpress U Thru Art program in schools and community centers. Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e $2511.00 for postage and materials $$11348.00 for fundraising supplies and materials We filed and received an extension for submission of the 2024 990 filing.