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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$375k
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 2024.

Philanthropy$4.2MReligion$2.6MEducation$1.4MHealth$762kHuman Services$513kFood & Nutrition$193kArts & Culture$161kInternational$102kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $1,749,373, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,916,772 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $167,399 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $454k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $631k
  • $250k+2 grants · $640k
$25,300
Median grant
5
States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OUR FAMILY FOUNDATION: $53k → 8%SENIOR MATTERS: $18k → 6%OUR FAMILY FOUNDATION: $38k → 8%OUR FAMILY FOUNDATION: $23k → 8%OUR FAMILY FOUNDATION: $23k → 8%AHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FDN: $15k → 8%AHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FDN: $15k → 8%OUR FAMILY FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%JCC OF YORK: $53k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF YORK: $15k → 9%JCC OF YORK: $10k → 9%JCC OF YORK: $9k → 9%JCC OF YORK: $9k → 9%JCC OF YORK: $7k → 9%JCC OF YORK: $5k → 9%JCC SENIOR ADULT CLUB: $10k → 12%CHABAD OF LANCASTER: $7k → 12%JCC SENIOR ADULT CLUB: $6k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CO
MD
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 37 repeat orgs$506k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
17

Total granted

$5.7M
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+15%

Still filing today

49%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER HARRISBURG INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $664k · revenue +179%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    7× · 2017–2024 · $374k · revenue +96%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF YORK PENNSYLVANIA
    7× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • WF
    WILLIAMSPORT FEDERATION OF JEWISH CHARITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +173% · 25% of their budget
  • CO
    CONGREGATION OF BETH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2021 · $19k
  • SM
    SENIOR MATTERS BECAUSE SENIORS MATTER
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue -45% · 33% of their budget
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
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
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
4
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia

The jewish federation of greater philadelphia mobilizes financial and volunteer resources to create a bright future for jewish people everywhere. the jewish federation cares for those in need, combats antisemitism and global crises, and…

Philanthropy
8
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
9
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

Our vision is a flourishing jewish community where everyone feels included, supported and inspired. in order to accomplish this vision we cultivate resources, connect people and collaborate across the community to live and fulfill jewish…

Philanthropy
10
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
11
B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation At Princeton

Cjl partners with students and other members of the princeton community to sustain and grow a welcoming, multi-faceted and pluralistic jewish community that is fully-integrated into the fabric of campus life and which provides personally…

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12
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pa; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 69 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/47
Grantees still filing
26/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $3,480,071 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURGAHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $172,500 · Human Services+3 more: $132,968 · Human ServicesOHEV SHOLOM CONGREGATION: $623,743 · OtherOHEV SHOLOM CONGREGATIONTEMPLE OHEV SHOLOM: $444,749 · OtherTEMPLE OHEV SHOLOMPENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $368,627 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYCHISUK EMUNA CONGREGATION: $306,137 · OtherCHISUK EMUNA CONGREGATIONBETH EL TEMPLE: $234,279 · OtherBETH EL TEMPLEPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $183,775 · OtherKESHER ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $164,635 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ISRAEL: $150,755 · OtherCHABAD-LUBAVITCH CONGREGATION OF HARRISBURG: $143,572 · OtherUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY: $137,950 · Other+31 more: $955,439 · Other+31 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER HARRISBURG INC: $664,403 · HealthJEWISH FAMI…JEWISH HOME OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $357,028 · HealthJEWISH HOME…+2 more: $40,050 · HealthUniversity of Miami: $373,992 · EducationRABBI DAVID L SILVER YESHIVA ACADEMY: $367,473 · Education+5 more: $59,418 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL PA: $270,311 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $165,914 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $90,280 · PhilanthropyCASA Charter School Foundation: $107,000 · Arts & CultureHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $38,435 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $5,425 · Arts & CultureBBYO FUND FOR THE FUTURE INC: $46,944 · ReligionWILLIAMSPORT FEDERATION OF JEWISH CHARITIES: $23,000 · ReligionKEIRUV INC: $19,500 · ReligionZAKA NORTH INC: $7,500 · ReligionJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $6,993 · Religion
Human Services$3,785,539Other$3,713,661Health$1,061,481Education$800,883Philanthropy$526,505Arts & Culture$160,860Religion$103,937

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 FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $3,480,071 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER HARRISBURG INC: $664,403 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $373,992 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRABBI DAVID L SILVER YESHIVA ACADEMY: $367,473 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetJEWISH HOME OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $357,028 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL PA: $270,311 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $172,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $165,914 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY: $137,950 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF YORK PENNSYLVANIA: $108,368 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCASA Charter School Foundation: $107,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE AT THE PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $95,300 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetYESHIVA ACADEMY OF HARRISBURG FOUNDATION: $90,800 over 5y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $90,280 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $57,083 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBBYO FUND FOR THE FUTURE INC: $46,944 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $44,868 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $38,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $38,435 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $27,609 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Research Institute: $26,987 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetSALEM LODGE OF B'NAI B'RITH HOUSING CORPORATION: $23,607 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWILLIAMSPORT FEDERATION OF JEWISH CHARITIES: $23,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20,708 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $20,664 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEIRUV INC: $19,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetSENIOR MATTERS BECAUSE SENIORS MATTER: $18,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetLGBT Community Center: $15,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJAKE GITTLEN MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMN: $12,050 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $10,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBPS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERSHEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $6,993 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OF DERRY TOWNSHIP: $6,600 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF READING PA INC: $5,875 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $5,860 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $5,425 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $5,400 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Foundation for En…United Way of the Cap…Associated Jewish Cha…The Dorothy B and S L…The David M and Marjo…The Evelyn W Bushwick…The S Wilson and Grac…Joseph T and Helen M …Upmc Pinnacle Hospita…McCormick Family Fdn …John Crain Kunkel Fou…United Way of York Co…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation of Central Pa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pa. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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