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Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County
At the JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY, we seek to guarantee a jewish tomorrow through the creation of a culture of legacy within the orange county jewish community and by empowering individuals to engage in effective, meaningful giving.
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 191 grants below total $10,386,190 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,664,194 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,278,004 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 $10k26 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k103 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k57 grants · $5.5M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY | $870,024 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $527,519 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY | $477,279 |
| UCI FOUNDATION | $258,380 |
| CURELBSL | $250,000 |
| HERITAGE POINTE | $221,039 |
| ADL ORANGE COUNTYLONG BEACH | $207,266 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL | $205,313 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $180,763 |
| HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY | $157,602 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $153,627 |
| TEMPLE BAT YAHM | $152,097 |
| ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $152,000 |
| JONI AND FRIENDS | $150,100 |
| GIRLS INC | $142,100 |
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, $7.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
213 repeat relationships — 147 still active in FY2024, 66 since wound down; 23 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +35%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +78%
- PSPacific Symphony8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +87%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -89%
- SSSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INCone grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue -14%
- ISINTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEMgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $180k · revenue +99% · 28% 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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Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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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.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
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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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown Hillel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ezra Center of California. 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
270 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. 270 of the 350 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 ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds The Orange County Friendship Circle Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH SOY ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Orange Coast College Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds REUT USA ↗
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: Samueli Foundation · Jewish Federation of Orange County · Orange County Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Argyros Family Foundation · Lewis Brunswick & Rebecca Matoff Foundat · O L Halsell Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
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 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Adamah Inc — 10% 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.