· Public charity
Jewish Communities of Western Ct Inc
The organization provides humanitarian aid locally, in israel and overseas.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF WESTERN CT INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $229,754 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $437,938 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $208,184 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| B'NAI ISRAEL | $71,151 |
| YESHIVA K'TANA OF WATERBURY | $66,921 |
| HATZALAH OF WATERBURY | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC | $14,000 |
| BAIS YAAKOV OF WATERBURY | $13,831 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $13,000 |
| FLANDERS NATURE CENTER & LAND TRUST | $8,500 |
| UJC DANBURY | $7,967 |
| UCONN HILLEL | $7,500 |
| WATERBURY COMMUNITY MESIVTA | $6,884 |
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, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k 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
- BBBNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut7× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +62%
- FAFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC5× · 2019–2023 · $51k · revenue +7%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC3× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- RCREVACH CAMPone grant, 2017 · $47k
THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +9%- SASOUTHBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INCgraduated3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +97%
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…
Thanks to the broad scope of Yad Sarah's activities and services, and the compassion and caring of its large volunteer corps, the organization has become an indelible part of the fabric of every-day Israeli society. Yad Sarah is also…
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
To help build a more just society by creating model programs for disadvantaged populations. The activities focus primarily on helping Israel overcome the challenges facing five groups (cont. on sched O):
World jewish relief usa inc supports life-saving and life-changing action to assist and empower people in crisis around the world.
During the past year we provided humanitarian aid to more than 50,000 people in communities across Ukraine. We provided food, medicine, medical care, programs for children, lodging, counseling and much more. These efforts were carried out…
Join israel unites nonprofits, schools and agencies in strategic partnerships to amplify existing servicesso more children, youth, families and seniors in crisis receive the help they need.
Jewish federation of greater hartford is the community leader and agent of change. our mission is to support, coordinate and develop priority programs and services that welcome all jewish families; bring unique jewish education and…
Jewish Family Service of Rockland County, Inc., doing business as Rockland Jewish Family Service (The Agency), located in West Nyack, New York, provides counseling services, support groups, family life education, holocaust support…
Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc. 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 35 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 42 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.
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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.
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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 Communities of Western Ct Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc — 68% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Mission of Waterbury — 49% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
- Bais Yaakov of Waterbury Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% 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.
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