· Public charity
Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia
The FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA (the foundation), created by the jewish federation of greater philadelphia in partnership with the regional jewish day schools, is an irs-recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, whose mission is to provide needs-based school scholarships, with an expanded opportunity to…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $410k
- $250k+12 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $3,002,233 |
| JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY | $2,441,431 |
| RAYMOND & RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $2,349,013 |
| POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY | $2,003,102 |
| KOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL | $1,698,934 |
| KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY | $1,412,415 |
| CHEDER CHABAD PHILADELPHIA | $962,087 |
| ABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY | $842,578 |
| THE MESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $705,873 |
| YESHIVA KETANA OF PHILADELPHIA | $636,664 |
| TALMUDICAL YESHIVA OF PHILADELPHIA | $419,034 |
| OROT | $406,290 |
| GRATZ COLLEGE | $189,160 |
| PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC | $162,550 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SOLOMON | $57,861 |
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 (FY17–23, $541k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RARAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +56%
- JMJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +70%
- PHPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TGTHE GRAYSON SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $329k · revenue +226%
- AIACADEMY IN MANAYUNKgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $182k · revenue +112%
- RDRABBI DAVID L SILVER YESHIVA ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $118k · revenue -16%
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.
YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
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…
Our school is run on a system of mutual respect, for teachers, administration and students. in a warm and caring environment, full of creativity and multi-faceted approaches to education, we ignite a spark in each girl to love hashem and…
The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
Flo and morris mizel jewish community day school provides an outstanding educational program for pre k through 5th grade students. rooted in jewish traditions and values, the general studies and judiac studies curricula fosters critical…
Or hachaim academy is a jewish religious school currently serving children from pre-school to 8th grade. in addition to jewish religious training, the school follows the educational curriculum as required by the state of california. the…
Jcs is a parent participation elementary school, collaboratively governed by parents and teachers designed to foster a lifelong love of learning and meaningful connection to hashem.
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.
The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy and the most unlike its peers is Orot. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 55 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 MORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds IS KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Cheder Chabad - Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds ABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Orot ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KETANA OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE GRAYSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds LIGUORI INC ↗
- Who funds KAISERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BUCKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RABBI DAVID L SILVER YESHIVA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GAN CHABAD ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Stern Academy Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz Family Foundation · Henkels Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · Lasko Family Foundation · The Clayman Foundation · The Specter Foundation
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 Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia 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.
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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