· Public charity
Jewish Education Center of Cleveland
The mission is to inspire transformative Jewish educational experiences that add meaning to the lives of Jewish children and their families in Cleveland.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $2,034,659 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,531,143 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,496,484 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 $10k6 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $293k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mandel Jewish Day School | $222,928 |
| Gross Schechter Day School | $206,661 |
| Hebrew Academy | $190,000 |
| Fuchs Mizrachi Day School | $170,840 |
| Yeshiva Derech Hatorah | $155,000 |
| Case Western Reserve University | $143,793 |
| JCC Association | $125,000 |
| Mandel Jewish Community Ctr | $116,116 |
| Congregation Mishkan Or | $102,698 |
| Partners in Torah | $100,000 |
| Park Synagogue | $67,408 |
| Jewish Family Experience | $52,500 |
| Bnai Jeshurun Congregation | $52,293 |
| Sububan Temple | $39,066 |
| Aish Hatorah | $32,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
- JFJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +48%
- GSGROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $987k · revenue +34%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $875k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $125k · revenue +40%
- CFCHABAD FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2025 · $6k
- COCHABAD OF THE WEST SIDEone grant, 2025 · $6k
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 columbus jewish day school operates an elementary school with students in kindergarten through fifth grade. the school integrates judaic studies into its curriculum, which includes, in addition to core classes, music, art, computer and…
Jcs is a parent participation elementary school, collaboratively governed by parents and teachers designed to foster a lifelong love of learning and meaningful connection to hashem.
YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…
To provide education in general and judiac studies
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Provide a premier Jewish education that: nurtures each student's capacity for intellectual discovery and decision-making within a respectful, pluralist, bilingual Hebrew-English environment; gives our graduates the ability to create their…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…
Operation of an all male Religious Orthodox Jewish High School
The mission of the commission for jewish education is to build a strong foundation of quality jewish education for all jews in our regional community; to educate the community in the history, language, tradition and literature of the…
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hebrew Academy of Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Case Western Reserve University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 35 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 JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA DERECH HATORAH ↗
- Who funds Partners In Torah of Cleveland Inc ↗
- Who funds The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland ↗
- Who funds SEGULA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Learning Connection ↗
- Who funds CHAVIVA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
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 Cleveland · Madav IX Foundation · The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Penni M and Stephen J Weinberg Family Fund · Irving I Stone Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Education Center of Cleveland 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.
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.