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Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island
Supporting and cultivating a connected, strong, and inclusive jewish community by maximizing philanthropic resources, volunteer efforts and social, cultural and educational opportunities and, by those efforts, to uphold the guiding values: (a) tzedakah: upholding the jewish traditions of righteous giving and justice;(b) m'dor l'dor:…
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53% of Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federations Of North America Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 8 grants below total $1,241,343 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,310,748 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $69,405 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $198k
- $250k+2 grants · $953k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $653,443 |
| JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES | $300,000 |
| JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF PROVIDENCE | $72,360 |
| PROVIDENCE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $72,360 |
| HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE AT URI | $53,000 |
| WORLD ORT INC | $34,000 |
| CAMP JORI | $28,500 |
| SANDRA BORNESTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION & RESOURCE CENTER | $27,680 |
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 (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 45% of Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island’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.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JDJEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF PROVIDENCE9× · 2017–2025 · $593k · revenue +130%
- HFHILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND9× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +15%
- JCJewish Childrens Home of RI Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $232k · revenue +253%
Funded once
- TSTEMPLE SINAIone grant, 2017 · $15k
- TTTEMPLE TORAT YISRAELone grant, 2017 · $13k
- CBCONGREGATION BETH SHOLOMone grant, 2017 · $11k
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.
Religious study and services
To further the jewish religion and promote jewish knowledge, education and community primarily through the publication and distribution of a weekly newspaper which contains jewish religious information, advice and guidance, discussion and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Ort Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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
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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds Jewish Childrens Home of RI Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD ORT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH SENIORS AGENCY OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
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: Jewish Federation Foundation of Greater Rhode Island · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island 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.
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.