· Community foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pa
Rooted in jewish values, since 1941 the foundation has been helping individuals and organizations support jewish and general community life in central pa, and around the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $1,749,373 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,916,772 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $167,399 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $454k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $631k
- $250k+2 grants · $640k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GRTR HBG | $375,497 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER HA | $264,328 |
| TEMPLE OHEV SHOLOM | $122,801 |
| OHEV SHOLOM CONGREGATION | $110,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FO | $107,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $100,000 |
| CHISUK EMUNA CONGREGATION | $77,486 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADO | $57,083 |
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $56,210 |
| BETH EL TEMPLE | $48,122 |
| PENN STATE UNIV OFFICE OF DONOR | $48,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE | $44,868 |
| TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL | $43,205 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $38,950 |
| KESHER ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $33,307 |
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 (FY17–24, $322k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER HARRISBURG INC8× · 2017–2024 · $664k · revenue +179%
- UOUniversity of Miami7× · 2017–2024 · $374k · revenue +96%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF YORK PENNSYLVANIA7× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- WFWILLIAMSPORT FEDERATION OF JEWISH CHARITIESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +156% · 25% of their budget
- COCONGREGATION OF BETH ISRAELone grant, 2021 · $19k
- SMSENIOR MATTERS BECAUSE SENIORS MATTERone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue -45% · 33% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pa and the most unlike its peers is Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
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 69 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER HARRISBURG INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds RABBI DAVID L SILVER YESHIVA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME OF GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL PA ↗
- Who funds AHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF YORK PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CASA Charter School Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE AT THE PENN STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA ACADEMY OF HARRISBURG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds BBYO FUND FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Multiple Sclerosis Research Institute ↗
- Who funds SALEM LODGE OF B'NAI B'RITH HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSPORT FEDERATION OF JEWISH CHARITIES ↗
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Dorothy B and S Lawrence Koplovitz · The David M and Marjorie D Rosenberg Foundation · The Evelyn W Bushwick Family Charitable Trust · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · United Way of York County
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 Foundation of Central Pa 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
- Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc — 1% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
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.