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Jewish Education Service of North America Inc

Jesna is dedicated to building a strong jewish future where learners of all ages lead jewish lives infused with purpose and meaning.

$760k
Granted FY2017
10
Grants FY2017
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $710k
$60,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$48k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU-Steinhardt School of Education$200,000
Covenant Foundation$175,000
Hebrew at the Center$100,000
Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools$75,000
New Teacher Center$60,000
Jewish Education Project$50,000
George Washington University$50,000
Workmen's Circle$25,000
Studio 70 dba Edah$15,000
Paradigm Project$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hebrew at the Center: $100k → 8%Studio 70 dba Edah: $15k → 10%New Teacher Center: $60k → 13%Jewish Education Project: $50k → 17%George Washington University: $50k → 14%Paradigm Project: $10k → 14%Workmen's Circle: $25k → 17%NYU-Steinhardt School of Education: $200k → 17%Covenant Foundation: $175k → 17%Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools: $75k → 17%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.
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 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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
3
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
4
The Board of Jewish Education

To provide early childhood and jewish education to the community.

Education
5
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

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…

Education
6
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
7
Hebrew College

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,…

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
10
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
11
The EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education

To educate and develop students whose intellect, moral character and Jewish identity provide a lifelong foundation for personal growth, commitment to the Jewish people and Tikkun Olam--improving the world in which we live.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Board of Jewish Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New York University: $200,000 · EducationNew York UniversityCovenant Foundation: $175,000 · EducationCovenant FoundationHEBREW AT THE CENTER INC: $100,000 · EducationHEBREW AT THE CENTER INCPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $75,000 · EducationPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INCNEW TEACHER CENTER: $60,000 · EducationNEW TEACHER CENTERThe George Washington University: $50,000 · EducationThe George Washington University+1 more: $10,000 · EducationBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $50,000 · ReligionThe Workmen's Circle Arbeter Ring Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureStudio 70: $15,000 · Other
Education$670,000Religion$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000Other$15,000

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 budgetNew York University: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant Foundation: $175,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHEBREW AT THE CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe George Washington University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Workmen's Circle Arbeter Ring Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetStudio 70: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE PARADIGM PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Education Service of North America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Education Service of North America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 10 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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