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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…

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$112MArts & Culture$168k
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $224k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $410k
  • $250k+12 grants · $17M
$41,360
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $101k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $97k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $88k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $83k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $80k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $72k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $21k → 22%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.
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.
$111M · 45 repeat orgs$755k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
9

Total granted

$111M
$755k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+112%

Still filing today

44%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RA
    RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +56%
  • JM
    JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +70%
  • PH
    POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GRAYSON SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $329k · revenue +226%
  • AI
    ACADEMY IN MANAYUNKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $182k · revenue +112%
  • RD
    RABBI DAVID L SILVER YESHIVA ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $118k · revenue -16%
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
Passaic Hebrew Institute

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…

Education
2
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

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…

Education
3
Denver Academy of Torah

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…

Education
4
Yotzer Ohr Inc

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…

Education
5
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

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)

Education
6
Yeshiva Derech Hatorah-Yeshivat Mizrachi Lbanim

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.

Education
7
Flo & Morris Mizel Jewish Community Day School

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…

Education
8
Or Hachaim Academy

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…

Education
9
Jewish Parent Cooperative School Inc

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.

Education
10
Gesher School Inc

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.

Education
11
Fuchs Mizrachi Schools

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.

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12
Yeshiva Keren Hatorah of Passaic- Clifton

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 55 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $18,746,352 · EducationMORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHI…KOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $12,989,635 · EducationKOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INCIS KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $8,925,478 · EducationIS KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLSCheder Chabad - Philadelphia: $6,955,634 · EducationCheder Chabad - PhiladelphiaMESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $4,458,670 · EducationMESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIAOrot: $2,787,890 · Education+12 more: $3,436,864 · Education+12 moreRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $14,005,259 · OtherRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOLJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $13,039,762 · OtherJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMYPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA: $12,918,699 · OtherPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHI…TALMUDICAL YESHIVA OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,288,027 · Other+27 more: $3,808,445 · Other+27 moreABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY: $6,018,839 · ReligionFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $541,476 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $235,481 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $221,994 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $269,962 · PhilanthropyKAISERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $127,975 · Recreation & Sports
Education$58,300,523Other$46,060,192Religion$6,018,839Human Services$541,476Arts & Culture$457,475Philanthropy$269,962Recreation & Sports$127,975

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 budgetMORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $18,746,352 over 9y, 27% of budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $14,005,259 over 9y, 15% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $13,039,762 over 9y, 11% of budgetKOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $12,989,635 over 9y, 15% of budgetPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA: $12,918,699 over 9y, 24% of budgetIS KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $8,925,478 over 9y, 24% of budgetCheder Chabad - Philadelphia: $6,955,634 over 9y, 26% of budgetABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY: $6,018,839 over 9y, 18% of budgetMESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $4,458,670 over 9y, 24% of budgetOrot: $2,787,890 over 9y, 71% of budgetYESHIVA KETANA OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,485,934 over 3y, 54% of budgetFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $541,476 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $500,148 over 5y, 15% of budgetGRATZ COLLEGE: $369,342 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE GRAYSON SCHOOL: $329,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $269,962 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $235,481 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $221,994 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $181,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIGUORI INC: $176,550 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetKAISERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $127,975 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BUCKS COUNTY: $125,405 over 7y, 11% of budgetGAN CHABAD: $82,485 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetJEVS HUMAN SERVICES: $42,161 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY: $27,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYESHIVA ACADEMY OF HARRISBURG FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $18,800 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Federation of …Business Leadership O…Erlbaum Family Founda…Central Pennsylvania …Stern Academy IncJewish Communal FundThe Edwin J and Barba…Henkels FoundationKatz Family Charitabl…Lasko Family Foundati…The Clayman FoundationThe Specter Foundation
Jewish Federation of Greater PhiladelphiaPA66.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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