How much does Jewish Community Foundation of the West give?

Jewish Community Foundation of the West reported 28 itemized grants totaling $1,147,173, out of $1,280,704 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jewish Community Foundation of the West fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Philanthropy (20%), Human Services (16%).

Who are Jewish Community Foundation of the West's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Temple or Rishon Sunrise Jewish Congregation ($570k), Mosaic Law Congregation ($510k), Hillel at Davis and Sacramento ($483k).

Does Jewish Community Foundation of the West fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Jewish Community Foundation of the West based?

Jewish Community Foundation of the West is based in CA.

Jewish Community Foundation of the West

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Jewish Community Foundation of the West

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Community Foundation of the West?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Jewish Federation of the Sacra.

To enhance charitable giving; facilitate philanthropy both locally and worldwide; and build permanent financial resources to strengthen organizations and programs that serve the Jewish families of Northern California

$1.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

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 2024.

Religion$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$1.0MEducation$676kHealth$439kArts & Culture$105kInternational$91kRecreation & Sports$87kOther$0

02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 28 grants below total $1,147,173, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,280,704 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $133,531 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 $10k5 grants · $29k
$10k–50k14 grants · $231k
$50k–250k9 grants · $887k

$15,989

Median grant

States reached

$21M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Jewish National Fund	$200,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE SAC	$154,639
MOSAIC LAW CONGREGATION	$100,477
THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NA	$100,000
HILLEL AT DAVIS & SACRAMENTO	$78,101
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY	$75,000
TEMPLE OR RISHON	$63,906
Congregation Bnai Israel SAC	$58,021
SHALOM SCHOOL	$56,866
NORTH TAHOE HEBREW CONGRE	$44,266
Boys Town Jerusalem Found	$25,000
NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM	$20,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC	$19,800
Congregation Bet Haverim	$15,989
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER	$15,118

02The need

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$4.7M · 31 repeat orgs$570k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.7M

$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

-7%

Still filing today

48%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

HA
Hillel at Davis and Sacramento
8× · 2017–2024 · $483k · revenue +84%
SS
SHALOM SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $405k · revenue +23%
BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $369k · revenue +4%

Funded once

JF
JEWISH FED PJ LIBRARY ENDOWME
one grant, 2018 · $50k
UF
UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM
one grant, 2021 · $26k
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
one grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue -33%

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.

University of Judaism Foundation

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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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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

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

Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture

The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc

Religion

American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights

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

Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture

Mfjc's purpose is the development of the social capital of the jewish people, its communal, cultural, and professional leadership, and the fostering of jewish connectedness globally, including the propagation of the hebrew language.

Religion

University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

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…

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Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

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…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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

40 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. 40 of the 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

22/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,310,020Philanthropy$1,079,585Health$446,548International$277,397Education$75,860Arts & Culture$69,768Religion$49,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA19.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of the Sacra · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Morton and Marcine Friedman Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 the West funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Community Foundation of the West. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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