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Jewish Community Foundation

To assist individuals and families in achieving their philanthropic goals through funds to support the local community, agencies and programs.

$7.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$246k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0157% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$13MArts & Culture$786kHuman Services$22kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $1,203,570, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,160,344 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,956,774 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

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $367k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $801k
$15,400
Median grant
6
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY$246,000
CONGREGATION BETH EL$184,159
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM$160,650
MEDITATION4LEADERSHIP$160,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$50,000
AMERICA'S CHARITIES$40,000
SAMOST JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE$25,050
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC$25,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$25,000
THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC$25,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$20,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF JEWISH HISTORY$20,000
CONGREGATION BETH AM ISRAEL$19,580
KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY$18,000
CONGREGATION KOL AMI$16,331
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CONGREGATION BETH AM ISRAEL: $20k → 7%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 22%BRAWERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $12k → 14%FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW (POLAND): $10k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $10k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6k → 11%CHABAD IN MEDFORD INC: $10k → 7%ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $246k → 12%AMERICA'S CHARITIES: $40k → 6%HILLEL AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 22%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $9k → 17%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $8k → 7%TEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $161k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20k → 22%HADASSAH THE WOMENS ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INC: $10k → 17%MEDITATION4LEADERSHIP: $160k → 12%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF JEWISH HISTORY: $20k → 22%NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 17%SAMOST JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $25k → 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL: $25k → 12%CONGREGATION BETH EL: $184k → 12%CONGREGATION KOL AMI: $16k → 12%KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY: $18k → 12%KATZ JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%LIONS GATE CCRC: $10k → 12%TORAH LINKS OF SOUTH JERSEY: $10k → 12%FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY: $10k → 12%THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 12%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 8 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$30M
$2.9M

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $862k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    7× · 2017–2023 · $9.0M
  • GD
    GRANT DISTRIBUTIONS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $6.3M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1.3M
  • JA
    JFSNJ ANNUAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2024 · $786k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $541k
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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture
3
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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6
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
7
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
10
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
11
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
12
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey; the most unlike its peers is Committee to Protect Journalists Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $8,979,165 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRANT DISTRIBUTIONS: $6,280,514 · OtherGRANT DISTRIBUTIONSIndividual grant recipient: $4,729,709 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFEDERATION ANNUAL CAMPAIGN: $3,321,715 · OtherFEDERATION ANNUAL CAMPAIGNIndividual grant recipient: $3,092,206 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL NON JEWISH AGENCIES: $2,157,380 · OtherNATIONAL NON JEWISH AGENCIESIndividual grant recipient: $1,253,792 · Other+23 more: $3,358,344 · Other+23 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $306,050 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,500 · PhilanthropyMEDITATION4LEADERSHIP INC: $160,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,000 · HealthCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,400 · Civil RightsKELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY: $18,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $11,000 · EducationROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,900 · EducationWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8,500 · International
Other$33,172,825Philanthropy$331,550Health$210,000Civil Rights$40,400Education$36,900Arts & Culture$20,000International$18,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $306,050 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLE HILLEL: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds MEDITATION4LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC ↗
  • Who funds SJF CCRC INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗

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 43 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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