Skip to content
Birmingham Jewish Federation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Birmingham Jewish Federation Inc

The birmingham jewish federation is dedicated to nurturing and promoting jewish life in birmingham, nationally, in israel and throughout the world; is involved in building a better birmingham through alliances and partnerships with other community groups, and is committed to helping all people in need in times of crisis.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$231k
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 2024.

Philanthropy$4.0MHuman Services$2.8MEducation$1.2MReligion$295kInternational$169kArts & Culture$124kFood & Nutrition$37kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $1,050,554, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,790,948 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $740,394 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $867k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA$231,200
NE MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$216,497
LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$203,812
COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$156,204
AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$59,100
ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER$33,686
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CHABAD OF ALABAMA$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$20,000
OPERATION LIFESHIELD$16,000
ALABAMA B'NAI BIRTH HILLEL FOUNDATION$15,000
AUBURN JEWISH STUDENT ORGANIZATION$10,955
JEWISH CHILDREN REGIONAL SERVICES$10,000
ALABAMA FRIENDS OF THE JAFFA INSTITUTE$9,400
IMPACT ISRAEL$7,250
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $368k → 16%FRIENDS OF YASHAR LACHAYAL: $5k → 8%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $291k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $277k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $256k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $204k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $197k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $156k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $156k → 16%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Birmingham Jewish Federation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 38% of the giving stays in AL; by stated purpose, 0%.

Birmingham Jewish Federation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 20 repeat orgs$726k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$6.1M
$619k

Still filing today

40%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LJ
    LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +3%
  • NE
    N E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +27%
  • CJ
    COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $383k
  • AS
    ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH EL
    2× · 2018–2020 · $33k
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
Jewish Life Foundation
—
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
5
Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services
6
American Friends of Yeshivat Yishrei Lev Inc

The organization raises funds for Yeshivat Yishrei Lev, an educational organization in Israel.

International
7
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
8
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
9
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
10
World Jewish Relief Usa Inc

World jewish relief usa inc supports life-saving and life-changing action to assist and empower people in crisis around the world.

Religion
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Levite Jewish Community Center; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,592,620 · Human ServicesLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM: $1,221,314 · Human ServicesCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIR…+2 more: $15,200 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $1,214,642 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERI…JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $382,790 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERIC…AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $290,700 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTIO…+28 more: $650,637 · Other+28 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,819,803 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS O…+1 more: $37,000 · PhilanthropyN E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $1,237,641 · EducationN E MILES JEWISH…+1 more: $15,000 · EducationThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $124,100 · InternationalOPERATION LIFESHIELD INC: $28,500 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INC: $16,750 · InternationalALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $43,686 · Religion
Human Services$2,829,134Other$2,538,769Philanthropy$1,856,803Education$1,252,641International$169,350Religion$43,686

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,819,803 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,592,620 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetN E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $1,237,641 over 8y, 21% of budgetCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM: $1,221,314 over 8y, 18% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $124,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $43,686 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION LIFESHIELD INC: $28,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBIRMINGHAM JEWISH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $16,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc: $5,200 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.

  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds N E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION LIFESHIELD INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Birmingham Jewish Federation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Birmingham Jewish Federation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Birmingham Jewish Federation’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home