· Public charity
Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education
To enhance and enrich the education of general studies
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION’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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEBRW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH | $135,000 |
| WESTCHESTWE TORAH ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| YESHIVAH TORAS CHAIM | $45,020 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of your 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF JI3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +30% · 100% of their budget
- TFThe Frisch School6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +81%
- YOYESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS5× · 2018–2023 · $107k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- YNYESHIVAT NOAMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue +37%
- MOMESIFTA OF GREATER MIAMI-LOUISone grant, 2019 · $31k · revenue +16%
- SKStella K Abraham High School for Girlsone grant, 2018 · $29k
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.
To provide academic excellence in both limudei kodesh and secular studies.
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.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
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.
Religious School
To provide education in general and judiac studies
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.
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…
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…
Yeshiva toras aron is a religious elementary school providing quality education for grades k-8 for the children of lakewood nj.
A jewish orthodox high school
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Elementary Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 44 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 127 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education 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.
- 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
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.
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