· Public charity
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 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
- $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 45% of Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 18 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
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 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 ↗
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: Jewish Federation Foundation of Greater Rhode Island · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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