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Jewish Community Board of Akron

The jcba is a volunteer association of concerned and committed people that exists for the purpose of preserving, enhancing, and perpetuating the jewish way of life.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.3MEducation$2.0MReligion$933kPhilanthropy$914kHealth$355kArts & Culture$189kInternational$64kFood & Nutrition$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $360,202, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,736,457 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,376,255 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $198k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $162k
$19,852
Median grant
5
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMM CENTER OF AKRON$97,005
AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$65,119
TEMPLE ISREAL$48,661
THE LIPPMAN SCHOOL$35,515
HOPE HAVEN CHILDREN'S HOME$20,000
BETH EL CONGREGATION$19,852
JEWIS FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND$19,833
REVER ROADANSHE SFARD SYNAGO$15,717
AKRON GENERAL FOUNDATION$15,000
COLORADO ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS$12,500
HADASSAH THE WOMANS ZIONIST$11,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SUMMIT COUNTY OHIO: $5k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON: $453k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON: $418k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON: $375k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON: $361k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON: $214k → 13%JEWISH COMM CENTER OF AKRON: $97k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $61k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $59k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON: $33k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 20 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$6.1M
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+36%

Still filing today

60%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalReligionPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TL
    THE LIPPMAN SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +40%
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $275k · revenue +65%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SC
    STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY
    one grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +4%
  • AR
    AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +1%
  • HI
    HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue +68%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
7
Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation

The Mt. Sinai Health Foundation improves the health of Greater Cleveland by investing resources, convening, and collaborating - with a focus on: - Equitable health outcomes- Health of the Jewish community- Academic medicine and bioscience…

Health
8
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
9
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
10
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
11
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
12
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in; the most unlike its peers is Colorado Assoc of Conservation District. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON: $1,951,380 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRONJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF AKRON OHIO: $120,428 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF AKRON OHI…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIPPMAN SCHOOL: $1,783,413 · EducationTHE LIPPMAN SCHOOLNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $223,648 · EducationNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY …+1 more: $50,000 · EducationTEMPLE ISRAEL: $372,889 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAELCHABAD JEWISH RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION: $225,000 · OtherCHABAD JEWISH REL…BETH EL CONGREGATION: $127,575 · OtherBETH EL CONGREGAT…REVERE RD SYNAGOGUE: $44,217 · OtherAMERICAN PHYSICIANS FELLOWSHIP INC FOR MEDICINE IN ISRAEL: $36,000 · OtherAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $40,000 · Other+17 more: $228,000 · Other+17 moreAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $436,623 · PhilanthropyAKRON COMMUNIT…JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $237,518 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED …UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $210,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …+2 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $275,000 · HealthSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $55,000 · Health+5 more: $35,000 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $153,818 · ReligionCANTOR'S ASSEMBLY: $50,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionAKRON ART MUSEUM: $150,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Association: $5,700 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$2,076,808Education$2,057,061Other$1,073,681Philanthropy$904,141Health$365,000Religion$208,818Arts & Culture$155,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON: $1,951,380 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetTHE LIPPMAN SCHOOL: $1,783,413 over 7y, 21% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $436,623 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $237,518 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $223,648 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $210,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $153,818 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAKRON ART MUSEUM: $150,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF AKRON OHIO: $120,428 over 2y, 16% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $55,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCANTOR'S ASSEMBLY: $50,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PHYSICIANS FELLOWSHIP INC FOR MEDICINE IN ISRAEL: $36,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENORAH PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR COMMUNITY HILLEL HOUSE DBA HILLEL AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRMH OF AKRONINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Akron Community Found…The Marks Family Foun…United Way of Summit …Sisler McFawn Foundat…Kenneth L Calhoun Cha…Lehner Family Foundat…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…The Welty Family Foun…Burton D Morgan Found…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
Akron Community FoundationOH27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · The Marks Family Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · Lehner Family Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jewish Community Board of Akron funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Community Board of Akron. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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