· Public charity
Jewish Communal Fund
To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.
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 4,976 grants below total $917,157,803 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,023,406,196 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $106,248,393 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
- Under $10k908 grants · $6.3M
- $10k–50k2424 grants · $52M
- $50k–250k1128 grants · $118M
- $250k+516 grants · $740M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC | $46,631,282 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $43,849,855 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $41,635,200 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $17,587,655 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY | $16,012,500 |
| CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION | $15,100,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $10,676,984 |
| TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC | $10,516,458 |
| YOUNG MEN'S & YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION DBA 92ND STREET Y | $9,281,180 |
| RESULTS FOR AMERICA | $9,215,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $9,071,610 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $8,962,890 |
| MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL | $7,225,935 |
| INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $7,126,786 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $7,095,913 |
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 (FY17–25, $65.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
1846 repeat relationships — 1628 still active in FY2025, 218 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30M 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $326M · revenue +64%- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $278M · revenue +39%
Cornell University9× · 2017–2025 · $112M · revenue +59%
Funded once
- PFPREVAIL FOUNDRY INCone grant, 2024 · $5.0M · 33% of their budget
- VSVote Solarone grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue +2% · 32% of their budget
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $2.1M · revenue +2%
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center.it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks, accepts,…
To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem a recognized tax exempt religious educational institute.
To further jewish education in israel
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa
Enriching the lives of jewish students.
Harvard hillel is a jewish home on campus that seeks to: -welcome students to experience the variety of jewish identity, tradition, practice, values, culture, and community. -inspire and enable jewish connection, celebration, and action.…
To promote and enhance jewish religious observance
A private jewish day school which provides academic and judaic studies for k-6.
Educational organization dedicated to judaic and general studies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Board of Jewish Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sapien Labs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1596 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. 1596 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOLLOW YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds NEXTBOOK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds MURMURATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds RESULTS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
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: The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Cabasso Family Foundation · I Chera & Sons Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation · The Adjmi-Dwek Foundation Inc · Joseph Jack Sitt 1986 - Charitable Trust
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 Communal Fund 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Special Children Center — 5% of income from government
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.