The Foundation is generously funded by a sponsor in Washington D.C. who wishes, at this point in time, to remain anonymous.JREF is now headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.

Perennial speakers included Richard Dawkins, Penn & Teller, Phil Plait, Michael Shermer, and Adam Savage.

[21] As of January 2024, JREF leadership consisted of:[22] In 1964, Randi began offering a prize of US$1,000 to anyone who could demonstrate a paranormal ability under agreed-upon testing conditions.

[25] Consequence was a biweekly podcast hosted by former outreach coordinator Brian Thompson in which regular people shared their personal narratives about the negative impact a belief in pseudoscience, superstition, and the paranormal had had on their lives.

In November 2015, Harriet Hall produced a series of ten lectures called Science Based Medicine for the JREF.

There are lectures by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Carol Tavris, Lawrence Krauss, live tests of the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, workshops on cold reading by Ray Hyman, and panels featuring leading thinking on various topics related to JREF's educational mission on the JREF YouTube channel.

[33] As part of the JREF's goal of educating the general population about science and reason, people involved in their community ran a popular skeptic based online forum[34] with the overall goal of promoting "critical thinking and providing the public with the tools needed to reliably examine paranormal, supernatural, and pseudoscientific claims".

The JREF has also helped to support local grassroot efforts and outreach endeavors, such as SkeptiCamp, Camp Inquiry,[36] and various community-organized conferences.

[38] The JREF Award "is given to the person or organization that best represents the spirit of the foundation by encouraging critical questions and seeking unbiased, fact-based answers."