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Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer Inc

The foundation is organized to promote philanthropy and to further the charitable needs of the jewish community, other charitable institutions, and community organizations.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$211k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.6MHuman Services$2.6MCivil Rights$1.2MReligion$1.0MHousing & Shelter$859kInternational$849kEducation$812kHealth$329kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 56 grants below total $1,660,218, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,978,237 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $318,019 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 $10k25 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $462k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
$10,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$211,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES$169,023
JEWISH FEDERATION PRINCETON MERCER$143,236
GREENDWOOD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC$106,299
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT$100,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES$96,700
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$80,699
JEWISH CENTER$71,645
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOR$55,000
HOMEFRONT INC$45,530
EZRAS CHOLIM OF ARIZONA$40,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADO$33,600
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$32,600
ISLES INC$26,000
TEMPLE MICAH$26,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.7M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACLD: $19k → 6%MIRIAMS KITCHEN: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $8k → 14%ARM IN ARM INC: $9k → 11%ACLD: $11k → 6%ARM IN ARM INC: $7k → 11%HOME BY TIC INC: $40k → 11%ACLD: $8k → 6%MERCER STREET FRIENDS: $6k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $222k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $187k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $173k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $169k → 11%JFCS PHOENIX: $31k → 11%PEACE CENTER: $10k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $165k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $10k → 11%PEACE CENTER: $8k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $155k → 11%JFCS PHOENIX: $8k → 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $25k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $149k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $141k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $115k → 11%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 11%SEND HUNGER PACKING PRINCETON INC: $5k → 11%ISLES INC: $26k → 11%ISLES INC: $10k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS INC: $7k → 11%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

ME
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 52 repeat orgs$885k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
33

Total granted

$7.5M
$634k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+11%

Still filing today

81%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k 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
Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthReligionOther
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

  • Jewish Family & Childrens Services of Greater Mercer County Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +71%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $854k · revenue +116%
  • GREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $845k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $132k
  • OF
    ONE FAMILY FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue 0%
  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +46%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
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
3
University of Judaism Foundation
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4
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
5
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
6
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
7
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
8
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
10
Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey

The jewish federation of southern new jersey cares for those in need, enhances jewish life and ensures the continuity of a vibrant jewish community locally, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

88 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. 88 of the 111 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
53/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MERCER INC: $666,952 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GR…JEWISH CENTER: $384,184 · OtherJEWISH CENTERBETH-EL SYNOGOGUE: $186,029 · OtherBETH-EL SYNOGOGUEPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $139,833 · OtherALLOCATIONS: $136,882 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $132,359 · OtherGREENWOOD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $117,399 · OtherSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $127,300 · OtherABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY: $119,324 · Other+47 more: $1,237,539 · Other+47 moreUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF PRINCETON MERCER BUCKS INC: $1,780,899 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FEDER…+6 more: $122,022 · Philanthropy+6 moreJewish Family & Childrens Services of Greater Mercer County Inc: $1,476,399 · Human ServicesJewish Family & C…Charity Navigator: $75,500 · Human Services+12 more: $185,849 · Human Services+12 moreHOMEFRONT INC: $839,830 · EducationHOMEFRONT INCJOSHUA HARR SHANE FOUNDATION INC: $206,000 · EducationJOSHUA HARR SH…BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL: $160,000 · EducationBROOKLYN LAW S…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL O…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 · Education+6 more: $104,545 · Education+6 moreGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $845,026 · HealthGREENWOOD …Foundation for Morristown Medical Center: $50,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $50,000 · Health+4 more: $43,800 · HealthAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $853,888 · Civil RightsAMERICAN …AUGUSTA CHIWY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $6,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $296,500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $126,960 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $108,250 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $96,510 · InternationalINSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $66,450 · InternationalONE FAMILY FUND: $55,100 · International+7 more: $120,966 · International
Other$3,247,801Philanthropy$1,902,921Human Services$1,737,748Education$1,460,375Health$988,826Civil Rights$894,888International$870,736

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF PRINCETON MERCER BUCKS INC: $1,780,899 over 8y, 36% of budgetJewish Family & Childrens Services of Greater Mercer County Inc: $1,476,399 over 9y, 9.7% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $853,888 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $845,026 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $839,830 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MERCER INC: $666,952 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $296,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJOSHUA HARR SHANE FOUNDATION INC: $206,000 over 9y, 28% of budgetBROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL: $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $127,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $126,960 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY: $119,324 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGREENWOOD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $117,399 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $108,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $96,510 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $96,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $90,911 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $77,734 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCharity Navigator: $75,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $66,450 over 3y, 87% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $63,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND: $55,100 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL INC: $54,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $54,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA KOSHER FOOD PANTRY: $50,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $48,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMANSPACE INC: $47,100 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,545 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoothills Food Bank: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND WARREN COUNTIES INC: $38,922 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC: $36,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA CHIWY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $31,600 over 2y, 16% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $30,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $28,726 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC: $27,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $27,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $27,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $22,940 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSVARA: $21,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEACE CENTER INC: $17,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $16,560 over 3y, 0.1% 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 UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF PRINCETON MERCER BUCKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Family & Childrens Services of Greater Mercer County Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED ↗
  • Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MERCER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds JOSHUA HARR SHANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds ABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAMILY FUND ↗
  • Who funds SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA KOSHER FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ40.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Anne and Gerald Freedman Charitable Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Educational Ventures Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Womanspace Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: 8% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • Arm in Arm Inc: 4% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 111 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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