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· Public charity

Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation

We provide engaging opportunities that deepen jewish connections, knowledge and relations to israel; services for helping those in need; programs that foster healthy living; and pathways for chartiable giving.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$188k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Religion$1.7MEducation$229kHealth$98kEnvironment$57kArts & Culture$50kPublic Benefit$25kCrime & Legal$20kInternational$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $390,314 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,150,926 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $760,612 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 $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $253k
$13,174
Median grant
2
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE$187,795
KEHILLAH SYNAGOGUE$65,286
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION$35,000
JUDEA REFORM CONGREGATION$33,676
FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE$15,000
NC HILLEL FOUNDATION$13,174
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC$11,933
TRIANGLE JEWISH CHORALE$9,000
DURHAM LITERACY CENTER FOUNDATION$6,950
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY$6,500
URBAN MINISTRIES OF DURHAM$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $17k → 8%AT THE WELL CO MOISHE HOUSE: $28k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC: $12k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES: $16k → 11%ELON UNIVERSITY: $11k → 13%KEHILLAH SYNAGOGUE: $80k → 13%GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION: $10k → 16%TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE: $40k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $15k → 8%AT THE WELL CO MOISHE HOUSE: $10k → 11%THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 17%ELON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%KEHILLAH SYNAGOGUE: $75k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE: $13k → 8%JEWISH CREATIVITY INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 17%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $213k → 11%ELON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%KEHILLAH SYNAGOGUE: $65k → 13%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $193k → 11%KEHILLAH SYNAGOGUE: $57k → 13%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $188k → 11%KEHILLAH SYNAGOGUE: $46k → 13%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $172k → 11%KEHILLAH SYNAGOGUE: $35k → 13%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $131k → 11%ARTS CENTER: $25k → 13%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $96k → 11%UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $35k → 13%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $60k → 11%UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30k → 13%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $14k → 11%NC HILLEL FOUNDATION: $22k → 13%NC HILLEL FOUNDATION: $18k → 13%NC HILLEL FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%NC HILLEL FOUNDATION: $13k → 13%NC HILLEL FOUNDATION: $12k → 13%LERNER JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $66k → 11%NC HILLEL FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%LERNER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $42k → 11%NC HILLEL FOUNDATION: $9k → 13%JUDEA REFORM CONGREGATION: $34k → 11%JUDEA REFORM CONGREGATION: $27k → 11%JUDEA REFORM CONGREGATION: $22k → 11%JUDEA REFORM CONGREGATION: $21k → 11%JUDEA REFORM CONGREGATION: $19k → 11%JUDEA REFORM CONGREGATION: $17k → 11%LERNER JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $14k → 11%JUDEA REFORM CONGREGATION: $11k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 13 repeat orgs$271k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +0% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
19

Total granted

$2.0M
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
0%

Still filing today

85%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TL
    THE LERNER JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +14%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +100%
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $46k
  • TA
    TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • AC
    ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -48%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation

We provide engaging opportunities that deepen jewish connections, knowledge and relations to israel; services for helping those in need; programs that foster healthy living; and pathways for chartiable giving.

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2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

—
4
Student U

Our mission is to empower and equip first-generation college students in durham public schools, their families, and educators to become the leaders that will transform our city.

Education
5
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

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…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Davidson Day School

Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…

Education
8
Hebrew College

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,…

Education
9
North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

Arts & Culture
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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11
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life At University of Md

Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.

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12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Hillel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Community Success Initiative Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%44%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%55%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
12%
4,318/35,860

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.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Beth El Preschool — $1,066,340 · EducationBeth El PreschoolUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $64,500 · Education+5 more — $94,216 · Education+5 moreTHE CHAPEL HILL KEHILLAH — $313,090 · OtherTHE CHAPEL HILL KEHILLAHJUDEA REFORM CONGREGATION — $156,683 · OtherJUDEA REFORM CONGREGATIONTHE LERNER JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $134,632 · OtherTHE LERNER JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOLNORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION — $107,003 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $46,365 · OtherTALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE INC — $40,000 · Other+13 more — $123,753 · Other+13 moreFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD — $44,300 · EnvironmentTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $13,000 · EnvironmentMOISHE HOUSE — $37,900 · ReligionARTS CENTER — $25,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST — $25,000 · Social ScienceTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $7,260 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $6,000 · International
Education$1,225,056Other$921,526Environment$57,300Religion$37,900Arts & Culture$25,000Social Science$25,000International$23,260

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBeth El Preschool — $1,066,340 over 8y, 54% of budgetTHE LERNER JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $134,632 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION — $107,003 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $64,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD — $44,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $37,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetElon University — $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC — $26,900 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetARTS CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $20,533 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Success Initiative Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $15,616 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Ministries of Durham Inc — $12,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $8,700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $7,260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE Skills Foundation — $6,900 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDUKE SCHOOL — $6,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Durham Inc — $5,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Triangle Community Fo…Duke University Healt…The Leon Levine Found…Foundation for the Ca…United Way of the Gre…Duke UniversityDuke Energy FoundationNorth Carolina Commun…Fidelity FoundationDurham Merchants Asso…The Forest At Duke IncRaymond James Charita…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC29.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke University · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · The Forest At Duke Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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