· Private foundation
Bjh Foundation for Senior Services Carolina Foundation for Jewish Seniors
TO PROMOTE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH JEWISH VALUES AND BELIEFS, QUALITY HEALTH CARE AND/OR AN ENRICHED JEWISH ENVIRONMENT FOR THE JEWISH SENIORS IN THE CAROLINA.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of BJH FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR SERVICES CAROLINA FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH SENIORS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER CHARLESTON | $70,000 |
| RALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FAMILY SVCS OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF RALEIGH-CARY | $65,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC | $60,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREENSBORO | $55,000 |
| JEWISH FOR GOOD | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $48,000 |
| GREENVILLE JEWISH FEDERATION | $31,500 |
| COLUMBIA JEWISH FEDERATION | $30,000 |
| TEMPLE B'NAI SHOLEM | $15,000 |
| SANDRA AND LEON LEVINE JCC | $13,000 |
| B'NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $5,000 |
| ASHEVILLE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| MEMORY MATTERS | $5,000 |
| CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $934k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $459k · revenue +258%
- JFJewish Family Services of Greater Charlotte Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $256k · revenue +146%
- SASandra and Leon Levine Jewish Community Center Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- BCBURINING COAL THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SGSTAN GREENSPON HOLOCAUST AND SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- BIBETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Advancement of the Jewish Community
The mission of the WNC Jewish Federation is to harness the collective resources of the WNC Jewish community and direct them to the Jewish needs in the local community, in Israel and abroad.
To provide jewish educational, social, athletic and cultural programs to the community.
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
Grassroots network of jewish residents for a just and compassionate north carolina.
Guided by Jewish values, the federation convenes, inspires, collaborates, leads and enriches the jewish community locally and around the world. The Federation also serves as a fundraising body and coordinates a veriety of services on the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services of Wnc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creative Aging Network - Nc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services of Greater Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Charleston Jewish Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Sandra and Leon Levine Jewish Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Upstate South Carolina ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ASHEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE AGING NETWORK - NC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Leon Levine Foundation · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · The Jewish Federations of North America Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Jewish Foundation of Greensboro · Greensboro Jewish Federation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bjh Foundation for Senior Services Carolina Foundation for Jewish Seniors funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.