· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 165 grants below total $11,649,453 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,210,126 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,560,673 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $151k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k79 grants · $9.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hillel-Univ of Florida | $397,500 |
| Hillel of San Diego | $328,234 |
| Hillel-CUNY Queens College | $300,625 |
| Hillel-Baruch College | $241,833 |
| Hillel-NC | $241,396 |
| Hillel 818 | $219,900 |
| Hillel-Rutgers University | $214,465 |
| Hillel-Univ of Central Florida | $206,836 |
| Hillel-Univ of CA Davis | $202,429 |
| Hillel-Boston University | $202,099 |
| Hillel-Ohio State University | $200,361 |
| Hillel-Univ of Pennsylvania | $191,484 |
| Hillel-University of Arizona | $185,923 |
| Hillel-University of Wisconsin Madison | $185,584 |
| Hillel-Northeastern University | $185,193 |
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 (FY17–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $2.5M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Program Services
Stated purpose: Program Services
Stated purpose: Program Services
Stated purpose: Program Services
Stated purpose: Program Services
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +28% for the ones you funded once.
142 repeat relationships — 126 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
- HTHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE AT THE PENN STATE UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +85% · 41% of their budget
- GJGAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +87% · 37% of their budget
- BUBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +28% · 38% of their budget
Funded once
- HSHILLEL-PENN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $433k
- OIONETABLE INCone grant, 2021 · $106k · revenue +24%
- HOHILLEL-UNIV OF CALIFORNIA LAone grant, 2017 · $97k
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 enhance jewish life for the university community.
Hillel seeks to be a vibrant jewish presence for claremont colleges students, involving them in ways which enhance their connection to the jewish religion, the jewish people and their lasting commitment to jewish life.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of hillel at temple is to connect and inspire students to make an enduring commitment to jewish life,learning, and community.
Stony brook hillel is a home for jewish students to explore their relationship with judaism, israel and each other. we strive to create a dynamic space where students feel a sense of community, the desire to explore, the freedom to be…
The foundation was established exclusively for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, a not-for-profit organization.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Jerusalem University College creates opportunities for students to deepen their knowledge of God and His Word through immersive study of the ancient and modern contexts of Israel and the surrounding regions, equipping them for academia,…
To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…
To give students experiences in and exposure to a community of friends and mentors in a jewish culture that explores life, locates meaning, and develops a sense of purpose.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown Hillel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
181 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. 181 of the 207 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL FLORIDA HILLEL INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE AT THE PENN STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PENN HILLEL ↗
- Who funds GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT QUEENS COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT BARUCH INC ↗
- Who funds BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD ↗
- Who funds THE BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds HILLEL 818 ↗
- Who funds HUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE HILLEL INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds CU BOULDER HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLEL JEWISH CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CORNELL HILLEL ↗
- Who funds Rutgers Hillel Corporation ↗
- Who funds KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT BRANDEIS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT FSU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL ↗
- Who funds Hillel at Binghamton Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ↗
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: 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
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 Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Drew University — 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.