· Public charity
Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County
Guided by our jewish values of tzedakah (righteous giving), chesed (loving kindness) and tikun olam (repairing the world), we work together to meet vital needs at home, in israel and around the world and to cultivate a vibrant and inclusive jewish community, now and for the future.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of FEDERATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPY OF UPPER FAIRFIELD COUNTY’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.
The 15 grants below total $432,396 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $460,601 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,205 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k6 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $184k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $117,149 |
| JDC | $67,000 |
| MERKAZ COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL OF JUD | $48,000 |
| ROGOFF ISRAEL FUNDS HELD IN ISRAEL | $44,740 |
| JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES | $36,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $35,381 |
| BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY | $16,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $14,376 |
| PROJECT KESHER | $14,000 |
| HOLOCAUST CHILD SURVIVORS OF CT | $7,750 |
| POSITIVE DIRECTIONS | $7,000 |
| BBYO CT VALLEY REGION | $6,500 |
| HILLEL AT UCONN | $6,500 |
| NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOR ETHIO | $6,000 |
| DIGNITY GROWS | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $331k · revenue +24%- JHJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $140k · revenue +32%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE5× · 2017–2021 · $66k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- SNSouthern New England Consortium of Partnership 2000 Incorporatedone grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue -93% · 50% of their budget
- BBBNAI BRITH YOUTH ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2018 · $6k
- LCLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -18%
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
The jewish agency for israel - north american council (the organization"), was organized to work with and in support of nonprofit organizations in israel active in the fields of aliyah (immigration) and absorption; service to vulnerable…
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.
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Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dignity Grows Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds MERKAZ COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR JUDAIC STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Southern New England Consortium of Partnership 2000 Incorporated ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE DIRECTIONS-THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds Project Kesher ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Carmel Academy ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY GROWS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut ↗
- Who funds EZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
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: Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · United Jewish Federation Stamford New Canaan Darien Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County 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.
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- Positive Directions-the Center for Prevention & Counseling Inc — 11% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County 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.