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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.1MReligion$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.2MHealth$930kArts & Culture$800kEducation$340kCivil Rights$98kYouth Development$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC$100,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 45%.

J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 37% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

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ReligionEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    3× · 2021–2025 · $220k · revenue +13%
  • RC
    RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +56%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $98k · revenue +44%

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%
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.

04Its field

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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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
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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
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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
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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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hebrew Academy of Cleveland; 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.
05the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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
20/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…PARK SYNAGOGUE: $110,000 · OtherPARK SYNAGOGUERABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC: $110,000 · OtherRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF …Boca 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPartners In Torah of Cleveland Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetOfeq Institute Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 23% 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 budgetJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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