· Public charity
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 and abroad, and mobilize on issues of concern to the community, all with our local, national, and…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k58 grants · $6.0M
- $250k+15 grants · $26M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA UJC | $15,333,970 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES | $3,727,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $1,243,009 |
| CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC | $704,556 |
| UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA DBA TEACH CALIFORNIA | $642,100 |
| SHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER | $578,596 |
| BUILDERS OF JEWISH EDUCATION | $555,456 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $525,000 |
| ETTA ISRAEL CENTER | $441,000 |
| BET TZEDEK LEGAL SERVICES | $380,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY | $351,568 |
| JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $337,096 |
| KAVODENSURING DIGNITY FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS | $300,000 |
| TOUCH OF KINDNESS INC | $300,000 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE | $275,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $35.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +49% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
190 repeat relationships — 124 still active in FY2024, 66 since wound down; 16 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $725k 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 LOS ANGELES8× · 2017–2024 · $30M · revenue +107%
- SISHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +102%
- JSJVS SOCAL8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +72%
Funded once
- CICASHSTAR INCone grant, 2021 · $341k
- GIGATHER INCone grant, 2023 · $138k · revenue -7%
- SOSWIPE OUT HUNGERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +79%
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.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
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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…
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…
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.
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…
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To provide education in general and judiac studies
The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…
Religious School
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wexner Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
165 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. 165 of the 275 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds TIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗
- Who funds TOUCH OF KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds JQ INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds SILVERLAKE INDEPENDENT JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds HONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AISH TAMID OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds HILLEL 818 ↗
- Who funds BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds YULA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ILAN RAMON DAY SCHOOL ↗
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 Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · The Alon and Rosana Miller Foundation · The Milstein Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma
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 Federation Council of Greater La 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.
- The Aleph Institute 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.