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J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation

Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$590k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

52% of J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’21
20
’22
22
’23
16
’24
13
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Philanthropy$4.2MArts & Culture$720kReligion$675kHealth$370kEducation$304kHuman Services$140kCommunity Improvement$100kCivil Rights$98kInternational$32kOther$1.4M
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $590k
$36,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$590,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$100,000
MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC$100,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$100,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL$50,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND$37,500
CHABAD OF EAST BOCA INC$36,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$25,000
JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND$20,000
JEWISH FAMILY EXPERIENCE$19,800
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$16,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND$15,000
GREEN ROAD SYNAGOGUE$12,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES INC$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%PARTNERS IN TORAH OF CLEVELAND INC: $40k → 17%PARTNERS IN TORAH OF CLEVELAND INC: $40k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM: $10k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM: $10k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM: $10k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM: $10k → 17%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 45% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 37% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 24 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
9

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+8%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • RC
    RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +56%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $98k · revenue +44%
  • JF
    JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $84k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -18%
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue 0%
  • AG
    AISH GLOBAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
University of Judaism Foundation
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5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
7
Yeshiva University High Schools

The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.

Education
8
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
9
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
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
12
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hebrew Academy of Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Cleveland Museum of Art. 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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr14%15%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr20%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr20%73%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,267

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.

05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $4,146,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND+2 more — $70,000 · PhilanthropyREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $560,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERS…JEWISH FAMILY EXPERIENCE — $394,800 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY EXPERIEN…RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC — $110,000 · OtherRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF …PARK SYNAGOGUE — $110,000 · OtherPARK SYNAGOGUEBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $100,000 · OtherBoca Raton Regional Ho…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $97,500 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMIT…+11 more — $258,500 · Other+11 moreCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $500,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND …The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $220,000 · Arts & CultureThe United…AISH GLOBAL INC — $250,000 · ReligionAISH GLOB…MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC — $154,000 · ReligionMOMENTUM …Ofeq Institute Inc — $80,000 · ReligionOfeq Inst…FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC — $67,500 · ReligionFRIENDSHI…GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL — $66,000 · ReligionGROSS SCH…JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND — $40,000 · ReligionJEWISH ED…+1 more — $17,200 · ReligionUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $300,000 · HealthNaaleh Cleveland Inc — $50,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthYESHIVA DERECH HATORAH — $140,000 · EducationJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $84,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL — $70,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationPartners In Torah of Cleveland Inc — $80,000 · Human ServicesBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND — $40,000 · Human ServicesADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND — $20,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$4,216,500Other$1,630,800Arts & Culture$720,000Religion$674,700Health$370,000Education$304,000Human Services$140,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $4,146,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAISH GLOBAL INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC — $154,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH HATORAH — $140,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC — $110,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $97,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $84,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOfeq Institute Inc — $80,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetPartners In Torah of Cleveland Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC — $67,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL — $66,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNaaleh Cleveland Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND — $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND — $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER — $17,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Federation of …Irving I Stone Founda…The Kline Family Foun…Marla & Joseph Shafra…The Albert B & Audrey…Richard Horvitz and E…National Society for …The Cleveland Foundat…The Teri and Dan Germ…Jewish Education Cent…Abr Family Foundation…Ohio Scholarship Fund
Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH29.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Irving I Stone Foundation · The Kline Family Foundation · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Cleveland Foundation · The Teri and Dan German Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Education Center of Cleveland · Abr Family Foundation No 1 · Ohio Scholarship Fund

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 J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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