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Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Long Beach & West Orange County
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Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Long Beach & West Orange County’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Long Beach & West Orange County, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH & WEST ORANGE COUNTY’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $625,130 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $831,427 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $206,297 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 $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
- $250k+1 grant · $442k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH | $442,498 |
| ALPERT JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $33,096 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $31,216 |
| LONG BEACH SYMPHONY | $20,755 |
| BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE | $12,500 |
| LONG BEACH RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $11,125 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE | $10,960 |
| LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY | $10,000 |
| HEBREW ACADEMY | $8,680 |
| ABLE ARTS WORK | $7,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH DAVID | $6,800 |
| MUSICAL THEATRE WEST | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–19, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Long Beach & West Orange County’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.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF LONG BEACH AND ORANGE COUNTY3× · 2017–2019 · $46k · revenue +171%
- ICINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +32%
- LBLong Beach Symphony Association3× · 2017–2019 · $43k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- WUWater Undergroundgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +47%
- BCBE CARE LOVE INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- JIJQ INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +50%
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 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 develop and strengthen Jewish identity, foster Jewish values, and enrich the community of Long Beach and West Orange County.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…
The foundation seeks, secures and manages private support for california state university, long beach. (see schedule o)as the philanthropic foundation for the university, all donations in support of our students, faculty, programs and…
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.
The mission of the ucla alumni association is to enrich the lives of alumni and involve them in the future of ucla.
Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Long Beach & West Orange County and the most unlike its peers is Water Underground. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 LONG BEACH & WEST ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HILLEL ADVISORY COUNCIL OF GREATER LONG BEACH AND WEST ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF LONG BEACH AND ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Long Beach Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONFLUENCE RISING ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds Water Underground ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH JEWISH COMMUNITY SENIOR HOUSING DBA FEDERATION TOWER ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH OPERA ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Long Beach ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE BETH DAVID OF ORANGE COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATRE WEST ↗
- Who funds JQ INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Greater Long Beach & West Orange County · Long Beach Community Foundation · The RuMBa Foundation of Long Beach · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · Public Corp for the Arts of the City of Long Beach · Bess J Hodges Foundation · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Greater Long Beach & West Orange County 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% 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.