· Public charity
Jewish Community Federation of Richmond
A.
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 14 grants below total $595,158 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,223,923 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $628,765 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 $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
- $250k+1 grant · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA | $263,158 |
| RUDLIN TORAH ACADEMY | $54,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| WEINSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $44,000 |
| VCU HILLEL | $35,000 |
| JEWISH LIFE AT VCU | $30,000 |
| ALEPH BET PRESCHOOL | $30,000 |
| OR ATID JEWISH MIDDLE SCHOOL COMM | $21,000 |
| JEWISH STUDENT UNION | $18,000 |
| B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION | $17,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE - BIRTHDAY BOXES | $15,000 |
| UVA HILLEL | $6,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL-RICHMOND | $6,000 |
| VT HILLEL | $6,000 |
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, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +122%
- RHRichmond Hebrew Day School9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +114%
- BSBeth Sholom Home of Virginia7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +75%
Funded once
- ABALEPH BET PRESCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $18k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
- BKBONAY KODESHone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
To provide the highest quality jewish and general education for high school age children.
William and Mary Hillel reaches out to Jewish students on campus through a variety of programs on campus.
The Richmond Jewish Foundation is a primary, trusted and expert resource for planned giving and endowments. We engage, educate and inspire generations of donors to create ongoing resources for charitable, religious, and educational needs.…
The mission of Hillel at the University of Washington (Hillel UW) is to inspire students and young adults (ages 18-35) to explore, embrace, and celebrate Jewish life and identity.
Enrich the lives of jewish students
To enrich the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
To engage and enrich the lives of Jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world by empowering students to build vital Jewish communities on campus and inspire them to embrace a future of…
The ujc is organized for the purpose of uniting and supporting the local, national and international jewish community through the enrichment of their educational, cultural, religious and social lives.
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillel At Va Tech Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friendship Circle of Va. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 43 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.
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Richmond Hebrew Day School ↗
- Who funds Beth Sholom Home of Virginia ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT VA TECH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLEL JEWISH CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds HONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT VCU INC ↗
- Who funds George Mason University Hillel ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF VA ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds Kavod vNichum ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
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: Richmond Jewish Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Community Federation of Richmond 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.
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.