· Community foundation
Houston Jewish Community Foundation
The mission of the Houston Jewish Community Foundation is to reflect the collective charitable hearts of our donors by advising on, receiving, administering, distributing and efficiently serving as the stewards of funds that are designated for the present and future benefit of qualified charitable organizations and promote the practice…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k58 grants · $407k
- $10k–50k132 grants · $2.5M
- $50k–250k44 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+14 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Houston Jewish Family Foundation | $5,000,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Houston | $4,533,096 |
| Emery-Weiner Center for Jewish Education | $1,345,177 |
| Joan & Stanford Alexander Jewish Family Service | $1,203,590 |
| Congregation Emanu El | $805,881 |
| Congregation Beth Israel | $735,699 |
| Friends of IDF Texas Chapter | $479,762 |
| Jewish Federations of North America | $478,280 |
| American Society for Technion | $410,100 |
| Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Ctr | $378,115 |
| Goldberg Montessori School | $318,780 |
| PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc | $307,630 |
| American Israel Education Foundation | $275,000 |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $256,518 |
| Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services | $201,432 |
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 (FY17–24, $22.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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
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 +37% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
276 repeat relationships: 163 still active in FY2024, 113 since wound down; 73 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +15%
- HJHOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +79% · 39% of their budget
- EREvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston8× · 2017–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +9%
Funded once
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $425k · revenue +31%
- TGTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTIONone grant, 2017 · $350k · revenue +22%
- RMREASONING MIND INCone grant, 2017 · $300k
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
481 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. 481 of the 585 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 Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds The EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
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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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Houston · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brodsky Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Houston Jewish Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Houston Jewish Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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