· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -15%
- HOHILLEL-UNIV OF CALIFORNIA LAone grant, 2017 · $97k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
181 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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