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Nonprofit · EIN 84-4141628

JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

Tax-exempt · OAKLAND, CA 94619

Financials

$92K$101K2023$213K$172K2024$259K$294K2025
Revenue Expenses · by fiscal year end
Financials of JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED by year, from its e-filed returns
Year endedFormRevenueExpensesNet incomeTotal assetsLiabilitiesNet assets
December 31, 2025990$258,888$294,417-$35,529$36,361$0$36,361
December 31, 2024990$212,719$172,323$40,396$85,227$13,337$71,890
December 31, 2023990$92,154$100,856-$8,702$26,071$0$26,071
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025

Revenue

Contributions, gifts and grants
$258,288
of which government grants
$144,766
Program service revenue
$600
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0

Expenses

Grants and similar amounts paid
$0
Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
$73,250
Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
$79,524
Professional fundraising fees
$0
Legal fees
$706
Accounting fees
$12,415
Travel
$1,282
Program services (functional)
$256,858
Management and general (functional)
$37,559

Balance sheet and other

Total assets, start of year
$85,227
Total assets, end of year
$36,361
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets, end of year
$36,361
Gross receipts
$258,888
Employees
1
Volunteers
2
Year formed
2019
State of legal domicile
CA

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.

NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Michelle EdmondExecutive Director
Officer, Key employee, Highest-paid employee
40$73,250
Lawrence EdmondBoard Member
Trustee or director
15$12,415
Cynthia GraysonPresident, Board of Director
Trustee or director
1$0
Dr Paula HawthornBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
John McClendonBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
Burley Pie aka John McDowellBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
Patricia RamosBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
Robert ReadBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 8 people
NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Michelle EdmondExecutive Director
Key employee, Highest-paid employee
40$32,645
Lawrence EdmondBoard Member
Trustee or director
5$2,075
Cynthia GraysonPresident, Board of Director
Trustee or director
1$0
Dr Paula HawthornBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
John McClendonBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
Burley Pie aka John McDowellBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
Patricia RamosBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
Robert ReadBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 8 people
NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Michelle EdmondExecutive Director
Officer
30$28,653
Lawrence EdmondBoard Member
Trustee or director
10$3,020
Cynthia GraysonPresident, Board of Director
Trustee or director
1$0
Dr Paula HawthornBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
John McClendonBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
Burley Pie aka John McDowellBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
Patricia RamosBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0
Robert ReadBoard Member
Trustee or director
1$0

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)
3630 HIGH ST UNIT 19037, OAKLAND, CA 94619-6026
Principal officer (990 for 2025)
Jamko Foundation Incorporated, 3630 High Street, Unit 19037, Oakland, CA 94619
Signed the 990
Michelle Edmond, Executive Director
Phone
(877) 526-5654

California records

California keeps its own records of charities and corporations. Search them by EIN 84-4141628 or by the name JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED.

Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers
Registration status and filed reports (CT-TR-1, RRF-1)

Mission

Jamko Foundation, Inc., founded December 2019, is a national 501(c)(3). Jamko works to ignite hope and provide tangible opportunities for people facing poverty and oppression. To help eradicate poverty of mind, body, spirit; we partner with vision-aligned agencies + projects that seek to stabilize a person in 5 key areas: Education, Employment, Finances, Housing and Healthy Well-being . At the heart of our vision is the Merchant Mariner Apprenticeship Training Program, opening doors for Opportunity Youth and Adults to gain skills, credentials, and careers in the maritime industry-bridging potential to prosperity.

990 for the year ended December 31, 2025

Program accomplishments

  • The Maritime Apprenticeship Program (MAP) is Jamko Foundation's flagship workforce development initiative, designed to create equitable pathways into the maritime industry for Opportunity Youth and underserved communities in California. In March 2025, MAP achieved a landmark milestone: official registration as a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Registered Apprenticeship Program - currently Jamko Foundation is the only nonprofit in California to hold this designation in the merchant maritime sector. MAP operates at the intersection of workforce development, maritime heritage, and social equity. The program provides hands-on, classroom-based, and work-based vocational training, combined with wraparound support services, to prepare participants for careers as fully licensed Merchant Mariners. Upon completing a registered apprenticeship, participants enter the maritime workforce through a direct pipeline to unions and employers, with U.S. Department of Labor data (November 2024) confirming a 90% workforce retention rate for registered apprenticeship graduates nationally. During the 2025 summer training cohort, MAP trained 12 individuals total, including 3 Opportunity Youth participants - representing 25% of the cohort - as part of a deliberate pilot to refine and scale the Opportunity Youth track within the program model. Opportunity Youth are young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither enrolled in school nor participating in the labor market, and who often face compounding barriers including poverty, justice involvement, housing instability, and educational disruption. MAP's model is specifically designed to meet these participants where they are, providing the structure, credentials, and mentorship needed to transition into a sustainable maritime career. Jamko Foundation's Southern California expansion includes a formal partnership with Orange Coast College (OCC) Waterfront Campus, which has signed on as a Local Education Agency (LEA) for the California Department of Apprenticeship Standards' California Opportunity Youth California Community College in Orange County, enabling the formal delivery of related technical instruction (RTI) and expanding access to the program for Opportunity Youth in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County regions. Goodwill Industries of South Los Angeles County (SOLAC) invited Jamko to co-locate its Southern California office and training classroom within their central workforce training facility in Long Beach, California. Goodwill SOLAC's facility is situated near the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles - the two busiest cargo ports in the United States - providing MAP apprentices with direct geographic proximity to the industry employers, union halls, and vessel operations. The partnership also positions MAP to leverage Goodwill SOLAC's existing wraparound support infrastructure and community relationships in the Long Beach and greater Los Angeles region. The SS Lane Victory - a National Historic Landmark vessel berthed in San Pedro at the Port of Los Angeles - will serve as MAP's primary hands-on maritime training site in Southern California. MAP Nor Cal training cohorts train on the SS Red Oak Victory in the Port of Richmond. Training aboard active, historic Merchant Marine vessels provides MAP apprentices with an authentically maritime learning environment, where vessel operations, safety protocols, and seamanship. MAP's training curriculum integrates U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) credentialing requirements, maritime safety protocols, vessel operations, and industry certifications. The apprenticeship model is structured to ensure that graduates are workforce-ready and credentialed upon program completion - not merely trained, but fully licensed and union-eligible. The maritime industry continues to face persistent billet shortages - a workforce gap that MAP is uniquely positioned to address by recruiting from communities that have historically been excluded from these careers. A living-wage career with union benefits and long-term growth potential can seem out of reach for teens and adults from marginalized communities. MAP dismantles that barrier by providing a structured, credentialed, and supported pathway from training to employment. This $350,000 California Department of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) planning grant awarded to Jamko Foundation supports the build-out of these partnerships, facilities, and systems necessary to operate at scale across California's major port regions. Jamko Foundation's theory of change holds that when young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are given real skills, real credentials, and real support, they become positive contributors to their families, communities, and the broader economy - while simultaneously meeting a documented industry need. MAP has demonstrated that this approach works. Participants describe the experience as transformative. Employers and union partners describe graduates as workforce-ready. And the data confirms that registered apprenticeship is one of the most effective workforce development models in the country. MAP currently operates in the San Francisco Bay Area with active expansion underway into the greater Los Angeles/Long Beach/Orange County maritime region, anchored by the Goodwill SOLAC training facility in Long Beach, the SS Lane Victory training vessel in San Pedro, and the Orange Coast College Waterfront Campus LEA partnership. Jamko Foundation is actively cultivating additional employer, union, port authority, and philanthropic partnerships to sustain and scale MAP's reach across California's coastline and beyond.
    Expenses $253,058
  • Peer Level Technical Assistance including: grant research training, program development, fiscal and fiduciary support. We seek to develop relationships with local mission-aligned agencies to increase their capacity and ensure their resiliency. Jamko focuses on building capacity, strengthening and deploying servant leaders.
    Expenses $3,800 · revenue $600

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

Tax yearYear endedDueIRS public records
2025December 31, 2025May 15, 2026990 on file
2024December 31, 2024May 15, 2025990 on file
2023December 31, 2023May 15, 2024990 on file

IRS record

EIN
84-4141628
Tax-exempt status
501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
Foundation status
Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
Donations deductible (Pub 78)
Public charity, 50% deduction limit
Exempt since
2020
Accounting year ends
December
Files
Form 990 or 990-EZ
Assets (IRS master file)
$36,361
Income (IRS master file)
$258,888

Filing history

FormYear endedRevenueExpensesAssetsReturn
990December 2025$258,888$294,417$36,361IRS
990December 2024$212,719$172,323$85,227XML
990December 2023$92,154$100,856$26,071XML
990-EZDecember 2022–––IRS
990-EZDecember 2021–––IRS

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 84-4141628).

Questions about JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

What is the EIN of JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
The employer identification number (EIN) of JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is 84-4141628.
Is JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED tax-exempt?
Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2020.
Are donations to JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED tax-deductible?
Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
Which annual return does JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED file?
Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
When is the next return of JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED due?
The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
When did JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED last file with the IRS?
The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
Who is the principal officer of JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names Jamko Foundation Incorporated.
Who are the officers and directors of JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 8 people; 2 received compensation from the organization, the highest $73,250 (Michelle Edmond, Executive Director).
How much revenue does JAMKO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED have?
On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $258,888, expenses of $294,417 and total assets of $36,361 at year end.

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