· Community foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ
The mission of jcf is to service the charitable aims and interests of jcf donors by gathering, investing and disbursing charitable funds on their behalf and encouraging allocation of these monies to enhance and ensure the continuity of charitable institutions designated by the donor and approved by the jcf board.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 407 grants below total $29,319,530 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $35,928,432 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,608,902 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k99 grants · $663k
- $10k–50k219 grants · $4.6M
- $50k–250k73 grants · $7.4M
- $250k+16 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest New Jersey | $8,348,703 |
| Gottesman RTW Academy | $1,192,049 |
| Jewbelong Inc | $937,654 |
| Jewish Communal Fund | $899,631 |
| Jewish Family Service of MetroWest | $742,757 |
| Americans for Ben-Gurion University | $625,100 |
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston I | $565,247 |
| DAFgiving360 | $539,090 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $497,040 |
| Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc | $490,604 |
| National Yiddish Book Center | $371,360 |
| NJY Camps | $348,415 |
| Agudath Israel Of America Inc | $325,000 |
| Jewish Community Housing Corp | $284,878 |
| THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $13.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $5.7M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL
Stated purpose: GENERAL
Stated purpose: GENERAL
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
487 repeat relationships — 277 still active in FY2025, 210 since wound down; 104 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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 METROWEST NJ A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORP7× · 2018–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +97%
- GRGOTTESMAN RTW ACADEMY7× · 2018–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +74%
- JIJEWBELONG INC7× · 2018–2025 · $3.3M · revenue ×29 · 87% of their budget
Funded once
- FYFOLLOW YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $25M · revenue -97% · 55% of their budget
BAYLOR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $3.3M · revenue +24%- TOTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
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.
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…
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
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.
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,…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
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…
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…
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is Leaving Legacies Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
709 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. 709 of the 917 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds FOLLOW YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ ↗
- Who funds ARRAY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST NJ A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOTTESMAN RTW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Golda Och Academy ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds TIKVA CORP ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE OSCAR AND ELLA WILF CA ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YM-YWHA OF UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Daughters of Israel Inc ↗
- Who funds ELIMINATE POVERTY NOW INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
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 Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc
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 Metrowest NJ 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- South Ward Alliance — 57% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Glassroots Inc — 5% of income from government
- Rabbinical College of America — 5% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service of Metrowest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jespy House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Gottesman Rtw Academy — 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
- Ym-Ywha of Union County — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Golda Och Academy — 0% of income from government
- Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey — 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Mae Volen Senior Center 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.