Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Hillel's mission is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
- $14M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 165
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 135
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $12M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $49,930
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $397,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 107 to 135
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 38
- Total assets, FY2025
- $76M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 140 | $11M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 135 | $10M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 123 | $9.5M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 125 | $9.9M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 121 | $13M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 120 | $8.1M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 110 | $6.9M | 7% |
| FY2018 | 107 | $6.2M | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Central Florida Hillel Inc | $2,451,089 | 9 | 38% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life at the Penn State University | $2,340,723 | 8 | 41% |
| Penn Hillel | $2,246,764 | 9 | 10% |
| Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc | $2,227,767 | 9 | 37% |
| Boston University Hillel Inc | $2,170,332 | 9 | 38% |
| B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation at Queens College Inc | $1,534,493 | 9 | 23% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $1,481,148 | 9 | 25% |
| Hillel at Baruch Inc | $1,387,173 | 9 | 18% |
| Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life at University of Md | $1,384,335 | 9 | 10% |
| The Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the Ohio State University | $1,357,847 | 9 | 22% |
Show all 190 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 28 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 161 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Maccabee Task Force Foundation · Seed the Dream Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Birthright Israel Foundation · Israel on Campus Coalition Inc · The Jewish Federations of North America Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life with peer funders
About Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
- How much does Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life give?
- Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life reported 165 itemized grants totaling $11,649,453, out of $14,210,126 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 107 and 135 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (95%), Philanthropy (3%), Education (1%).
- Who are Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Central Florida Hillel Inc ($2.5M), Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life at the Penn State University ($2.3M), Penn Hillel ($2.2M).
- Does Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maccabee Task Force Foundation, Seed the Dream Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life based?
- Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life is based in DC.
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