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Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay

The jewish federation of the east bay is dedicated to building avibrant and inclusive local jewish community, and to enhancing thewell being of jews in the east bay, israel and throughout the world.

$1.2M
Granted FY2019
42
Grants FY2019
4
States reached
$193k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Federation Of San Francisco The Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay named its own grantees at scale: 37 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

33
’17
31
’18
37
’19
0
’20
0
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY’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.

02FY2019 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 42 grants below total $1,099,566 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,152,584 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,018 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 · FY2019

  • Under $10k10 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $592k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $447k
$16,085
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH FED OF NORTH AMERICA$192,540
CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$69,315
OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL$65,767
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$60,000
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$59,346
JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES$45,047
JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL$40,000
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$40,000
CAMP TAWONGA$39,090
JTHE JEWISH NEWS WEEKLY$35,880
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$30,050
TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE$30,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BA$29,000
UC BERKELEY HILLEL$24,000
INDEPENDENT JEWISH WORLD CINEMA$22,645
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC: $5k → 8%JCC OF THE EAST BAY: $45k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BA: $29k → 10%TIDES CENTERSHALOM BAYIT: $14k → 10%TIDES CENTERSHALOM BAYIT: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Baylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.9% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 29 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
17

Total granted

$3.0M
$951k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+13%

Still filing today

76%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
ReligionEducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $330k · revenue +24%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $264k · revenue +42%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $202k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • CF
    COLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $617k · revenue -107% · 91% of their budget
  • JO
    JCC OF THE EAST BAY
    one grant, 2017 · $85k
  • CB
    CONGREGATION B NAI TIKVAH
    one grant, 2017 · $65k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
5
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
6
Jewish Federation of the Sacra

To serve and enrich the Jewish community and those who support and identify with it, in the greater Sacramento area, Israel, and the world.

Philanthropy
7
Jewish Community Foundation of the West

To enhance charitable giving; facilitate philanthropy both locally and worldwide; and build permanent financial resources to strengthen organizations and programs that serve the Jewish families of Northern California

Philanthropy
8
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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9
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

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…

—
10
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
11
Jewish Center for Justice

Founded in 2017, the Jewish Center for Justice (JCJ) is a distinguished social justice, education, and leadership development platform that meets each individual where they are in their journey to inspire change. JCJ's mission is to…

Human Services
12
The Jewish Wisdom Foundation

To create a dynamic community of Jews, nourished by mutual respect and honest, open dialogue, challenging stereotypes, invigorating curiosity, plumbing the depths of their great heritage and empowering a revolution in Jewish identity. In…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Lehrhaus Judaica dba Hamaqom the Place. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr20%30%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr12%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr20%30%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr12%52%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
12%
4,964/42,826

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.

05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 64 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/47
Grantees still filing
27/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $745,376 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCOLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $617,220 · OtherCOLEN FAMILY FOUNDATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $455,117 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $160,500 · OtherTHE TEHIYAH DAY SCHOOL — $148,358 · Other+39 more — $986,796 · Other+39 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $1,101,016 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $582,863 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF N…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $421,500 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT I…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $329,500 · InternationalThe American…HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $263,567 · ReligionTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $85,710 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE — $68,500 · ReligionJEWISH LEARNINGWORKS — $56,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $50,000 · ReligionAMEINU OUR PEOPLE INC — $20,352 · ReligionOakland Hebrew Day School — $184,525 · EducationCONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $128,167 · EducationSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc — $104,280 · EducationJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay — $60,000 · EducationGRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION — $25,000 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY — $201,538 · HealthTHE REUTLINGER COMMUNITY — $93,000 · HealthJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY — $74,151 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $24,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$3,113,367Philanthropy$1,683,879International$751,000Religion$544,129Education$501,972Health$294,538Human Services$103,151

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $1,101,016 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $745,376 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCOLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $617,220 over 1y, 91% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $582,863 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $455,117 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $421,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $329,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $263,567 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY — $201,538 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOakland Hebrew Day School — $184,525 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $160,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TEHIYAH DAY SCHOOL — $148,358 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $128,167 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc — $104,280 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE REUTLINGER COMMUNITY — $93,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $85,710 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL — $83,503 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY — $74,151 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $68,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUrban Adamah — $67,349 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH LEARNINGWORKS — $56,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KORET ISRAEL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDS — $50,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCONTRA COSTA MIDRASHA — $43,842 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetKESHET INC — $37,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWilderness Torah — $35,405 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMEINU OUR PEOPLE INC — $20,352 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLehrhaus Judaica dba HAMAQOM The Place — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBAY AREA MIDRASHA — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMAGNES MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetInstitute for Jewish & Community Research DBA Bechol Lashon — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStudio 70 — $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHasidah — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Fede…The Jewish Community …The Shimon Ben Joseph…The Donald and Carole…Koret FoundationRodan Family Foundati…Meyer Milton Char Tuw…Contra Costa Jewish C…Lisa & Douglas Goldma…Walter and Elise Haas…Libitzky Family Found…Shoresh Foundation
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA61.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Jewish Community Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation · Koret Foundation · Rodan Family Foundation · Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main · Contra Costa Jewish Community Center Inc · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Libitzky Family Foundation · Shoresh 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 the Greater East Bay 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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