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American Jewish University

AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY (aju) advances and elevates the jewish journey of individuals, organizations and our community through excellence in scholarship, teaching, engaged conversation, and outreach.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MPhilanthropy$716kInternational$600kEducation$470kReligion$374kEnvironment$43kCivil Rights$40k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $1,005,111, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,022,195 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,017,084 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$1,005,111
Median grant
1
States reached
$131M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER$1,005,111
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY: $12k → 22%ACHIEVEKIDS: $70k → 8%ADAT ARI EL: $344k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION-ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $100k → 17%HOLOCAUST HEROES WORLDWIDE: $70k → 15%THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY: $6k → 22%ADAT ARI EL: $63k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $100k → 17%ADAT ARI EL: $59k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $100k → 17%ADAT ARI EL: $58k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION-ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $100k → 17%ADAT ARI EL: $50k → 14%ADAT ARI EL: $50k → 14%ADAT ARI EL: $50k → 14%YASHRUT NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 14%MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $9k → 14%MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $9k → 14%MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $9k → 14%YASHRUT NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 14%YASHRUT NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 14%SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $1.0M → 14%PICO UNION INC: $7k → 14%TREE PEOPLE: $13k → 14%TREE PEOPLE: $10k → 14%TREE PEOPLE: $10k → 14%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $100k → 14%TREE PEOPLE: $10k → 14%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $100k → 14%ACLU FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%ACLU FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ACLU FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%JACK E & RACHEL GINDI FOUNDATION: $709k → 14%JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$849k · 7 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$849k
$864k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
0%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AA
    ADAT ARI EL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $672k
  • TI
    TREEPEOPLE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +179%
  • AF
    ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue -35%

Funded once

  • JE
    JACK E & RACHEL GINDI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $709k · revenue 0% · 46% of their budget
  • A
    ACHIEVEKIDS
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue -1%
  • HH
    Holocaust Heroes Worldwide
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0% · 36% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
3
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
4
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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5
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
6
Sherit Isroel
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7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
11
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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12
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesivta of Greater Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Holocaust Heroes Worldwide. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
3/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $1,005,111 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTERHolocaust Heroes Worldwide: $70,233 · Arts & CultureHolocaust Heroes WorldwideJACK E & RACHEL GINDI FOUNDATION: $709,406 · PhilanthropyJACK E & RACHEL GINDI FO…+1 more: $6,800 · PhilanthropyADAT ARI EL: $672,400 · OtherADAT ARI ELYASHRUT NORTH AMERICA: $30,000 · Other+3 more: $45,000 · Other+3 moreAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $600,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR…ACHIEVEKIDS: $70,233 · EducationMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $25,800 · EducationTREEPEOPLE INC: $42,500 · EnvironmentACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$1,075,344Philanthropy$716,206Other$747,400International$600,000Education$96,033Environment$42,500Civil Rights$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $1,005,111 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJACK E & RACHEL GINDI FOUNDATION: $709,406 over 1y, 46% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $600,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEKIDS: $70,233 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHolocaust Heroes Worldwide: $70,233 over 1y, 36% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYASHRUT NORTH AMERICA: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $25,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY: $18,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPICO UNION PROJECT: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $6,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Community Foun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Jewish University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Jewish University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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