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Charleston Jewish Federation Inc

The mission of the Charleston Jewish Federation is to build, secure and sustain Jewish life in Charleston, Israel, and around the world.

$812k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$110k
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$1.9MEducation$1.0MReligion$809kPublic Safety & Disaster$435kInternational$220kHuman Services$191kYouth Development$73kCommunity Improvement$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $688,179, the rows itemized in this filing. The $812,421 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $124,242 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 $10k6 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $278k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Secure Community Network Inc$110,169
Jewish Federation of North America$107,428
Addlestone Hebrew Academy$104,153
Jewish Family Services of Greater Charleston$53,122
Jewish Federation of North America$41,556
Addlestone Hebrew Academy$41,376
Chabad of Charleston Inc$38,116
Jewish Federation of North America$35,104
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim$30,000
Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina$25,000
Congregation Dor Tikvah Inc$15,000
Synagogue Emanu-El - Charleston$15,000
Brith Sholom Beth Israel Synagogue$14,400
Camp Judaea Inc$12,000
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim$10,000
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 (FY23–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Camp Barney Medintz: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER: $65k → 12%Jewish Family Services of Greater Charleston: $53k → 12%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 27% of Charleston Jewish Federation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Charleston Jewish Federation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 13 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
1

Total granted

$2.4M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+35%

Still filing today

62%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationHuman ServicesReligionCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AH
    ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $960k · revenue +178%
  • SC
    SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $290k · revenue +88%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $26k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • JA
    JERRY AND ANITA ZUCKER FAMILY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +35%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
—
2
The Jewish Community Foundation Charitable Fund
—
3
Jewish Life Foundation
—
4
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
5
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
6
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
7
Foundation for Cincinnati Jewish Seniors formerly Jewish Home of Cincinnati Inc
Health
8
Jewish Community Center of Southern Nevada Inc

To provide jewish educational, social, athletic and cultural programs to the community.

Unclassified
9
The Bnai Jacob Foundation
—
10
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
11
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
—
12
The World Society of Czestochowa Jews and Their Descendants Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation & Foundation of Northeast Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hebrew Orphan Society. 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

16 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. 16 of the 21 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,793,329 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCJEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $179,736 · PhilanthropyJEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINACOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $160,731 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC+3 more: $68,061 · PhilanthropyADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY: $960,158 · EducationADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEM…+2 more: $44,500 · EducationKAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM: $365,700 · OtherKAHAL KADOSH BETH EL…CONGREGATION DOR TIKVAH INC: $170,141 · OtherCONGREGATION DOR TIK…SYNAGOGUE EMANU-EL: $140,675 · OtherSYNAGOGUE EMANU-ELBRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $93,875 · OtherBRITH SHOLOM BETH IS…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHARLESTON SC: $62,182 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CEN…+2 more: $22,500 · OtherSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $289,688 · Public Safety & DisasterJewish Family Services of Greater Charleston Inc: $118,391 · Human ServicesMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC: $122,091 · ReligionJEWISH STUDIES CENTER INC: $20,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$2,201,857Education$1,004,658Other$855,073Public Safety & Disaster$289,688Human Services$123,391Religion$122,091Community Improvement$20,500

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: $1,793,329 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY: $960,158 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $289,688 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $179,736 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $160,731 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC: $122,091 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetJewish Family Services of Greater Charleston Inc: $118,391 over 2y, 10% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHARLESTON SC: $62,182 over 3y, 16% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJERRY AND ANITA ZUCKER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetJEWISH STUDIES CENTER INC: $20,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCamp Judaea Inc: $19,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEBREW ORPHAN SOCIETY: $17,500 over 2y, 34% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $15,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Jewish Endowment Foun…The Leon Levine Found…Coastal Community Fou…Norman J and Gerry Su…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Endowment Foundation of South CarolinaSC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina · The Leon Levine Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Norman J and Gerry Sue Arnold Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Charleston Jewish Federation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charleston Jewish Federation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
    1get 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 21 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.

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