· Public charity
Board of Jewish Education Inc
The organization works to inspire and empower educators and institutions to create transformative jewish learning experiences for children, teens, and families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $10,200,892 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,431,957 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $231,065 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $202k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+11 grants · $9.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA | $2,422,857 |
| BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA | $1,296,600 |
| B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC | $1,142,189 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF N | $867,772 |
| UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM | $866,354 |
| NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC | $633,186 |
| CAMP MORASHA INC | $429,960 |
| YOUNG JUDAEA GLOBAL INC | $385,190 |
| MERKOS L'INYONEI CHINUCH INC | $325,430 |
| JEWISHCOLORADO | $306,438 |
| ELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS | $295,111 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC | $228,200 |
| ALEXANDER MUSS INSTITUTE FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION INC | $195,105 |
| CAMP YAVNEH INC | $127,925 |
| OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $6.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of Board of Jewish Education Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 7% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
- BBB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION6× · 2018–2025 · $9.9M · revenue +22%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA5× · 2018–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +53%
- NRNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IEISRAEL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $442k · revenue 0%
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INCone grant, 2024 · $105k · revenue 0%- PCPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $78k · revenue +27%
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.
Yeshivath Gesher is a local Jewish School whose primary purposes are to strengthen the religious, moral and intellectual welfare of its members, their families and the community. The Yeshiva also promotes the principles of the Orthodox…
Operation of summer day camp and overnight camp which combines activities with a Torah education
At Gesher Jewish Day School we inspire our students to be passionate about learning, practice justice, kindness and respect, aspire to a life guided by Jewish values, torah and community.
Jcs is a parent participation elementary school, collaboratively governed by parents and teachers designed to foster a lifelong love of learning and meaningful connection to hashem.
We cultivate character, inspire minds and nurture souls, as students learn, explore, achieve and dream - all in a dual-language environment.
Provide a premier Jewish education that: nurtures each student's capacity for intellectual discovery and decision-making within a respectful, pluralist, bilingual Hebrew-English environment; gives our graduates the ability to create their…
To provide education in general and judiac studies
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
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…
Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…
To ensure a jewish future by challenging minds and nurturing souls with a focus on academic excellence and jewish learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oshman Family Jewish Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Israel Lacrosse Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 200 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 B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG JUDAEA GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER MUSS INSTITUTE FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC ↗
- Who funds ELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MORASHA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP YAVNEH INC ↗
- Who funds The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUNG JUDAEA INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEBER CAMP PROPERTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC TRADITION AND RECREATION ↗
- Who funds KEN JEWISH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINEMERE CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Livingston Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
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 Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Centers Association of North America · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Fjc · The Jewish Federations of North America Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego
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 Board of Jewish Education Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
- Bais Yaakov of Waterbury Inc — 4% of income from government
- Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy — 2% of income from government
- Yeshiva High School for Girls Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Frisch School — 0% of income from government
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.