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American Jewish World Service Inc

Inspired by the jewish commitment to justice, american jewish world service works to realize human rights and end poverty in africa, asia, latin america and the caribbean.

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$563k
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$4.6MInternational$4.1MCivil Rights$3.3MEnvironment$707kPhilanthropy$524kReligion$400kPublic Benefit$389kCrime & Legal$221kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $2,235,639, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,932,061 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,696,422 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $408k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $755k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MYRIAD USA$562,865
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$500,000
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE$180,000
GLOBAL ACTION FOR TRANS EQUALITY$127,476
ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE$102,000
SINGH FOUNDATION$70,498
ACTION ALLIANCE$65,000
MOTHER NATURE CAMBODIA$60,000
YOUTH CLIMATE JUSTICE FUND$50,000
NEW NARRATIVES$50,000
ROHINGYA HEALTHCARE COMMITTEE$50,000
WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT & DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION$40,000
FRONT LINE USA FOUNDATION$35,000
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT$30,000
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS$30,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Doctors of the World USA Inc: $30k → 17%Burma Humanitarian Mission: $9k → 8%Community Partners International: $45k → 10%Community Partners International: $26k → 10%Community Partners International: $23k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
DE
DC
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $17M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $17M to organizations and $39k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$4.5M · 27% · 116 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: GENERAL PURPOSE · PROJECT GRANT

Central America and the Caribbean$4.0M · 24% · 123 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL PURPOSE

East Asia and the Pacific$3.5M · 21% · 103 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL PURPOSE

South Asia$2.4M · 14% · 85 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: GENERAL PURPOSE · PROJECT GRANT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$941k · 6% · 15 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL PURPOSE

North America (Canada and Mexico)$916k · 6% · 26 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: GENERAL PURPOSE · PROJECT GRANT

South America$297k · 2% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL PURPOSE

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 43 repeat orgs$743k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
27

Total granted

$12M
$694k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

Still filing today

95%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +59%
  • SF
    SINGH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $349k · revenue +233%
  • BB
    BEYOND BORDERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $334k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • WA
    We Are Rally LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $160k
  • UA
    URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $62k · revenue +311%
  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FUNDERS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +621%
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
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
3
Equality Now Inc

To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.

International
4
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
7
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
8
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
9
Shift Project Ltd

At Shift, we have one purpose: to transform how business gets done in order to ensure respect for peoples lives and dignity. We believe that the best way to advance our mission is by working directly with Businesses to help shape their…

International
10
Parliamentarians for Global Action

Parliamentarians for global action (pga) is a non-partisan ngo network of legislators from all regions of the world acting in their individual capacity to advocate for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; peace and human security;…

International
11
Global Voice
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12
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ceres Trust. 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

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 80 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
47/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $4,500,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC+3 more: $81,607 · Arts & CultureMYRIAD USA INC: $1,202,394 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $455,134 · InternationalUnitarian Universalist Service Co…BEYOND BORDERS INC: $334,000 · InternationalBEYOND BORDERS INCTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $302,000 · InternationalTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INCINTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $270,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY PROJ…ESCR-NET INTERNATIONAL: $270,000 · InternationalESCR-NET INTERNATIONALPROJECT ON ORGANIZING DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH LTD: $172,500 · InternationalNEW NARRATIVES INC: $167,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH: $146,700 · International+14 more: $949,234 · International+14 moreTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $676,862 · OtherTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION I…UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION: $399,500 · OtherUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST A…SINGH FOUNDATION INC: $349,211 · OtherSINGH FOUNDATION INCROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $167,000 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER …We Are Rally LLC: $160,000 · OtherCREATING RESOURCES FOR EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC: $137,156 · OtherNAMATI INC: $200,000 · OtherNAMATI INCACTIONAID USA: $141,850 · Other+25 more: $878,627 · Other+25 moreSOLIDARITY UGANDA INC: $382,000 · Civil RightsGLOBAL ACTION FOR TRANS EQUALITY INC: $302,012 · Civil RightsEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $265,000 · Civil RightsGLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER: $85,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $40,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $14,000 · Civil RightsMOTHER NATURE CAMBODIA INC: $266,154 · EnvironmentInternational Rivers Network: $153,887 · EnvironmentFORGOTTEN PARKS FOUNDATION: $115,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $100,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 · Environment+1 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $195,000 · PhilanthropyEDGE FUNDERS ALLIANCE: $164,150 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropySocial Movement Technologies Foundation Inc: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHAITIAN-AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY INC: $241,500 · Public BenefitFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $82,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $79,600 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$4,581,607International$4,268,962Other$3,110,206Civil Rights$1,088,012Environment$680,041Philanthropy$424,150Public Benefit$403,100

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 budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $4,500,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $1,202,394 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $676,862 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $455,134 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSOLIDARITY UGANDA INC: $382,000 over 8y, 53% of budgetSINGH FOUNDATION INC: $349,211 over 6y, 15% of budgetBEYOND BORDERS INC: $334,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetGLOBAL ACTION FOR TRANS EQUALITY INC: $302,012 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $302,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $270,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetESCR-NET INTERNATIONAL: $270,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetMOTHER NATURE CAMBODIA INC: $266,154 over 9y, 37% of budgetEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $265,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetHAITIAN-AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY INC: $241,500 over 2y, 61% of budgetNAMATI INC: $200,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $195,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ON ORGANIZING DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH LTD: $172,500 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetNEW NARRATIVES INC: $167,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $167,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetEDGE FUNDERS ALLIANCE: $164,150 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetInternational Rivers Network: $153,887 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH: $146,700 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetACTIONAID USA: $141,850 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFRONT LINE USA FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCREATING RESOURCES FOR EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC: $137,156 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFortify Inc: $135,992 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetFORGOTTEN PARKS FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetRHIZE: $102,699 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $100,450 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARROW: $100,203 over 2y, 12% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $93,684 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFUNDERS CONCERNED ABOUT AIDS INC: $90,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Manhattan Coalition For Immigrant Rights: $85,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER: $85,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $82,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $79,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $62,490 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUNDERS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $40,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetWOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $39,731 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDOMINICAN REPUBLIC EDUCATION AND MENTORING PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $32,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOLIDARITY UGANDA INC ↗
  • Who funds SINGH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND BORDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL ACTION FOR TRANS EQUALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ESCR-NET INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MOTHER NATURE CAMBODIA INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HAITIAN-AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMATI INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ON ORGANIZING DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH LTD ↗
  • Who funds NEW NARRATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds EDGE FUNDERS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds International Rivers Network ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds ACTIONAID USA ↗
  • Who funds FRONT LINE USA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CREATING RESOURCES FOR EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Fortify Inc ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RHIZE ↗
  • Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ARROW ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds FUNDERS CONCERNED ABOUT AIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Northern Manhattan Coalition For Immigrant Rights ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT ↗

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.

Wellspring Philanthro…Foundation to Promote…The Ford FoundationOpen Society InstituteNew Venture FundTides FoundationFoundation for a Just…Amalgamated Charitabl…The David and Lucile …The William & Flora H…Arcus FoundationGlobalgiving Foundati…
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund IncNY53.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Ford Foundation · Open Society Institute · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Foundation for a Just Society · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Arcus Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc

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 World Service Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Jewish World Service Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 80 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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