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Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine

To coordinate, promote, and support the Jewish philanthropic, benevolent, educational, and communal activities in Southern Maine. To foster, develop, and encourage agencies as will best promote the welfare of this community.

$150k
Granted FY2022
6
Itemized grants FY2022
5
Organizations funded FY2022
40%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$118k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$15,297
Largest grant, FY2022
$40,744
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Total assets, FY2022
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 40% of the organizations Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’22
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternational
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20225$78k40%
FY20203$43k0%
FY20194$42k25%
FY20173$38kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$196kPhilanthropy$143kInternational$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Levey Day School$76,76576%
Congregation Bet Haam$59,3477n/a
Temple Beth El$35,8607n/a
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine$14,00020%
Friends of Yad LKashishLifeline for the Old$10,00032%
The Good People Fund Inc$5,00020%

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine

How much does Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine give?
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine reported 6 itemized grants totaling $118,301, out of $150,485 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (57%), Philanthropy (42%), International (1%).
Who are Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Levey Day School ($77k), Congregation Bet Haam ($59k), Temple Beth El ($36k).
Does Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine based?
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine is based in ME.

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 7 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $161k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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