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Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education

To enhance and enrich the education of general studies

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$3.3MReligion$1.4MPhilanthropy$99kHuman Services$50kScience & Tech$41kEmployment$35kFood & Nutrition$12kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $235k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEBRW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH$135,000
WESTCHESTWE TORAH ACADEMY$100,000
YESHIVAH TORAS CHAIM$45,020
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YESHIVA KETANA OF LOS ANGELES: $51k → 14%SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF NASSAU COUNTY: $53k → 6%YESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS: $64k → 13%Katz Yeshiva High School of South Florida: $36k → 11%FRIENDS OF JI: $50k → 13%YESHIVA KETANA OF WATERBURY: $35k → 12%HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $108k → 17%JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER: $61k → 10%JOSEPH KUSHNER HEBREW ACADEMY: $50k → 16%YESHIVA KETANA OF LOS ANGELES: $27k → 14%FRIENDS OF JI: $50k → 13%YESHIVA KETANA OF WATERBURY: $27k → 12%HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $87k → 17%JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER: $43k → 10%FRIENDS OF JI: $50k → 13%YAVNEH HEBREW ACADEMY OF LOS ANGELES: $49k → 7%Jewish Educational Center: $26k → 10%EMEK HEBREW ACADEMY: $40k → 14%Jewish Interactive Inc: $50k → 17%Toras Emes Academy: $54k → 15%The Frisch School: $46k → 7%BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE: $74k → 11%THE LEFFELL SCHOOL: $55k → 9%YESHIVAT NOAM: $32k → 7%HEBRW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $183k → 6%HEBRW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $135k → 6%YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH: $72k → 13%THE ALEXANDER S GROSS HEBREW ACADEMY OF MIAMI: $33k → 15%HEBRW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $93k → 6%WESTCHESTWE TORAH ACADEMY: $100k → 9%YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH: $70k → 13%YESHIVAH TORAS CHAIM: $45k → 6%Mechina of South Florida: $31k → 15%YESHIVA TORAS CHAIM OF SOUTH SHORE: $43k → 6%Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: $28k → 17%Stella K Abraham High School for Girls: $29k → 6%HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY: $35k → 6%Hebrew Academy of Nassau County HS: $68k → 6%Hebrwe Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway: $119k → 6%IVDU Upper School: $58k → 20%HEBREW ACADEMY OF THE FIVE TOWNS: $80k → 6%YESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH: $57k → 20%HEBREW ACADEMY OF THE FIVE TOWNS: $74k → 6%TORAH UMESORAH: $50k → 20%HEBREW ACADEMY OF THE FIVE TOWNS: $59k → 6%Torah Umesorah: $49k → 20%HEBREW ACADEMY OF THE FIVE TOWNS: $57k → 6%HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $95k → 6%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
GA
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 54 repeat orgs$948k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
71

Total granted

$3.8M
$848k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+27%

Still filing today

41%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF JI
    3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +30% · 100% of their budget
  • TF
    The Frisch School
    6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +81%
  • YO
    YESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS
    5× · 2018–2023 · $107k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • YN
    YESHIVAT NOAMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue +37%
  • MO
    MESIFTA OF GREATER MIAMI-LOUIS
    one grant, 2019 · $31k · revenue +16%
  • SK
    Stella K Abraham High School for Girls
    one grant, 2018 · $29k
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 of Los Angeles Girls High School

To provide academic excellence in both limudei kodesh and secular studies.

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2
Yeshiva Keren Hatorah of Passaic- Clifton

To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.

Education
3
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students

Education
4
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
5
Yeshivat Mekor Chaim Inc

High school, offering academic classes in english, history, math, and science, as well as a full array of courses in judaic studies and co-curricular activities such as physical education and classes in the arts.

Education
6
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
7
Rabbi David L Silver Yeshiva Academy

To provide education in general and judiac studies

Education
8
Gesher School Inc

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.

Education
9
Yeshiva Chayei Olam

Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…

Education
10
Denver Academy of Torah

Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…

Education
11
Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc

Yeshiva toras aron is a religious elementary school providing quality education for grades k-8 for the children of lakewood nj.

Education
12
Maor Yeshiva High School Inc

A jewish orthodox high school

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Elementary Inc; the most unlike its peers is East Flatbush Religious School for. 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

58 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. 58 of the 127 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/58
Grantees still filing
47/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $527,127 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACHHEBREW ACADEMY OF THE FIVE TOWNS AND ROCKAWAY: $296,889 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF THE FIVE TOWNS AND ROCKAWAYJEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $228,354 · OtherJEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTERHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $220,062 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELANDHEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY: $177,852 · OtherCONGREGATION DARCHEI TORAH: $160,628 · Other+77 more: $1,990,710 · Other+77 moreThe Frisch School: $110,235 · EducationThe Frisch SchoolYESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS: $107,382 · EducationYESHIVA OF CENTRAL …Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles: $77,901 · EducationYeshiva Ketana of L…SAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY: $67,843 · EducationSAMUEL A FRYER YAVN…KATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $43,890 · EducationTORAH HIGH SCHOOLS OF SAN DIEGO: $35,846 · EducationYESHIVAT NOAM: $31,644 · EducationYESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $31,605 · EducationMESIFTA OF GREATER MIAMI-LOUIS: $31,233 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS: $29,929 · Education+23 more: $291,469 · Education+23 moreFRIENDS OF JI: $150,000 · ReligionFRIENDS O…TORAS EMES ACADEMY OF MIAMI INC: $103,196 · ReligionTORAS EME…Greater Miami Hebrew Academy: $63,681 · ReligionGreater M…JEWISH INTERACTIVE INC: $30,058 · ReligionJEWISH IN…MAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC: $17,906 · ReligionYESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC: $16,375 · ReligionYeshivat Lev Torah: $14,626 · Religion+3 more: $18,813 · ReligionYESHIVA OF PHOENIX: $98,883 · Philanthropy
Other$3,601,622Education$858,977Religion$414,655Philanthropy$98,883

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $220,062 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF JI: $150,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetThe Frisch School: $110,235 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS: $107,382 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTORAS EMES ACADEMY OF MIAMI INC: $103,196 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA OF PHOENIX: $98,883 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles: $77,901 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF NASSAU COUNTY: $76,924 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY: $67,843 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Miami Hebrew Academy: $63,681 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA HAR TORAH: $50,776 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $43,890 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYESHIVAT NOAM: $31,644 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $31,605 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMESIFTA OF GREATER MIAMI-LOUIS: $31,233 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH INTERACTIVE INC: $30,058 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS: $29,929 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $25,229 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $24,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA ELEMENTARY INC: $24,437 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY: $23,736 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS OF BROOKLYN: $21,231 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBAIS CHAYA MUSHKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $20,137 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $18,860 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC: $17,906 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC: $16,375 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC: $15,018 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $14,919 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $14,821 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYeshivat Lev Torah: $14,626 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY: $14,385 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOLOMON SCHECHTER SCHOOL OF QUEENS INC: $14,243 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST FLATBUSH RELIGIOUS SCHOOL FOR: $14,160 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPASSAIC HEBREW INSTITUTE: $13,427 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBET YAAKOV OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $12,523 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BOCA RATON INC: $12,515 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $12,140 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD: $11,109 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH BEND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC: $7,987 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARKHAM-GAON ACADEMY: $7,513 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSeattle Hebrew Academy: $7,492 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIS KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $7,246 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE IDEA SCHOOL INC: $7,045 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCHECK HILLEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $6,295 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC: $6,273 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBNOS MALKA ACADEMY: $6,179 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEND JEWISH SCHOOL: $6,112 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetQUEENS YESHIVA KETANA INC: $5,884 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 HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JI ↗
  • Who funds The Frisch School ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS ↗
  • Who funds TORAS EMES ACADEMY OF MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF NASSAU COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Greater Miami Hebrew Academy ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA HAR TORAH ↗
  • Who funds KATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds TORAH HIGH SCHOOLS OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVAT NOAM ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds MESIFTA OF GREATER MIAMI-LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH INTERACTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS ↗

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.

Caroline & Joseph S G…United Jewish Appeal-…Jewish Communal FundNational Society for …The Ojc FundJewish Community Foun…Our Jewish Children I…FjcCombat Hate FoundationPrizmah Center for Je…The Arthur & Joyce Fe…Maalot
Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds IncNY83.6× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Our Jewish Children Inc · Fjc · Combat Hate Foundation · Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools Inc · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · Maalot

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 Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Bet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Shagas Aryeh Inc: 9% 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
  • Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
  • Torah Academy of Bergen County: 0% of income from government
  • Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 127 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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