· Public charity
Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc
Jewish summer camp is the enduring and irreplaceable connection and community that strengthens jewish identity, develops jewish leadership, and ensures a jewish future.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 136 grants below total $5,226,518 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,625,105 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $398,587 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $156k
- $10k–50k92 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA | $469,300 |
| CAMP JCA SHALOM | $399,120 |
| CAMP ALONIM | $370,462 |
| CAMP MOUNTAIN CHAI | $223,700 |
| JCC CHICAGO | $170,000 |
| CAMP ZEKE | $158,120 |
| CAMP TAWONGA | $136,833 |
| WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE CAMPS | $127,036 |
| CAMP JAYCEE | $120,000 |
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NY | $120,000 |
| M Y KEREN HASHLUCHIM INC | $110,000 |
| RAMAH DAY CAMP IN NYACK | $101,500 |
| ISLAND QUEST DAY CAMP | $89,211 |
| MOSHAVA ALEVY | $65,900 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $65,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $6.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those 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 +45% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k 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
- JCJewish Community Centers of Chicago7× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +20%
- EVEDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +58%
- NRNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE PALISADESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $210k · revenue +50%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2022 · $210k · revenue +7%
- PJPENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $49k · revenue -5%
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 serve as an inclusive, dynamic and nurturing home for the local jewish community and welcome the community at large. dedicated to enhancing jewish identity, continuity and enriching jewish life with the connections to israel and jewry.
Our mission is to build a vibrant, welcoming, and inclusive community that embraces our jewish values, culture, identity and connections to israel, engages the local community, and enhances the body, mind and spirit of our members.
Serving people of all backgrounds and at every age and stage of life. a gathering place and resource for the hartford region. the jcc provides recreational, cultural, educational, and social programs designed to promote physical,…
Summer Educational camp for children.
To enrich the life of the jewish community by developing and implementing programs for the recreational, educational, cultural, physical, and social needs of the community.
Jewish summer camp is the enduring and irreplaceable connection and community that strengthens jewish identity, develops jewish leadership, and ensures a jewish future. foundation for jewish camp (fjc) is the only nonprofit whose singular…
Yeshivath Gesher is a local Jewish School whose primary purposes are to strengthen the religious, moral and intellectual welfare of its members, their families and the community. The Yeshiva also promotes the principles of the Orthodox…
To be a welcoming and inclusive community hub, rooted in jewish values, where individuals and families from all faiths and backgrounds come together to learn, grow, and connect through meaningful activities that foster education,…
To develop and strengthen our campers both on and off the field through sportsmanship, teamwork, achievement and responsibility.
The sidney albert albany jewish community center provides a nurturing environment where individuals and families can grow and develop in mind, body and spirit. we serve the spectrum of family life, from infants through seniors, through…
To strengthen jewish identity, celebrate jewish culture, and build inclusive community.
The mission of the adolph & rose levis jewish community center is to strengthen jewish continuity by offering compelling opportunities for physical, spiritual, educational, cultural and social enrichment. the levis jcc creates a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus and the most unlike its peers is Bnei Akiva of Los Angeles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
127 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. 127 of the 141 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 Community Centers of Chicago ↗
- Who funds EDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Sababa Surf Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Judaea Inc ↗
- Who funds TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEBER CAMP PROPERTY INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds CZ WELLNESS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S ↗
- Who funds CAMP MOSHAVA OF WILD ROSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CAMP AND CONFERENCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP YOUNG JUDAEA MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG JUDAEA SPROUT LAKE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HACHSHARA-MOSHAVA OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Camp Livingston Inc ↗
- Who funds ADAMAH INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX HOUSE EMANUEL CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST CAMPERS 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: The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Ahba Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Ylry Inc · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Centers Association of North America · Hlmh Inc · Board of Jewish Education Inc · Fjc · Clrc Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington 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 Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc 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.
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center On the Palisades — 4% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- The Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation 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.