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Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.

$20M
Granted FY2024still arriving
124
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$8.1M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$20MPhilanthropy$18MHuman Services$15MReligion$10MEducation$9.9MHealth$8.9MRecreation & Sports$8.3MEmployment$4.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 124 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 124 grants below total $17,127,542, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,619,412 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,491,870 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 $10k38 grants · $254k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+8 grants · $14M
$15,250
Median grant
13
States reached
$192M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center$8,081,475
Jewish Federations of North America$1,860,357
Mayerson JCC$1,631,896
Jewish Family Service$929,273
Rockwern Academy$517,882
JVS Careers$366,000
Camp Livingston$302,615
Cincinnati Hillel$261,756
Cincinnati Hebrew Day School$216,756
Adath Israel Congregation$167,818
Easter Seals TriState$124,800
American Friends of Magen David Adom$106,018
Isaac M Wise Temple$93,855
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati$89,460
United Way of Greater Cincinnati$89,332
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $9.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pittsburgh Jewish Community: $77k → 11%BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTE: $18k → 16%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 13%SHAMIDA ETHIOPIA INC: $10k → 5%Friends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc: $25k → 8%Cancer Support Community: $143k → 14%Cancer Support Community: $15k → 14%YMCA Tampa Metropolitan Area: $15k → 13%Cancer Support Community: $10k → 14%Ohio Sled Hockey Inc: $20k → 15%Abilities First Foundation: $10k → 12%American Red Cross: $11k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $929k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $833k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $791k → 16%Cancer Support Community (Cincinnati): $39k → 16%Talbert House: $84k → 16%Talbert House: $44k → 16%Talbert House: $22k → 16%Talbert House: $19k → 16%Lighthouse Youth Services Inc: $17k → 16%Lighthouse Youth Services Inc: $13k → 16%Lighthouse Youth Services Inc: $12k → 16%Lighthouse Youth Services Inc: $12k → 16%Lighthouse Youth Services Inc: $11k → 16%Lighthouse Youth Services Inc: $10k → 16%Jewish Family Services: $1.4M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $1.3M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $1.1M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $1.1M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $804k → 16%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati: $35k → 16%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati: $30k → 16%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati: $29k → 16%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati: $21k → 16%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati: $19k → 16%Ronald McDonald House Charities: $18k → 16%Society of St Vincent de Paul: $11k → 16%Camp Ashreinu: $67k → 16%Camp Ashreinu: $45k → 16%Camp Ashreinu: $40k → 16%Camp Ashreinu: $33k → 16%Camp Ashreinu: $28k → 16%Camp Ashreinu: $20k → 16%Camp Ashreinu: $20k → 16%Cincinnati Union Bethel: $31k → 16%Cincinnati Union Bethel: $23k → 16%Cincinnati Union Bethel: $11k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
KY
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80M · 146 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

146 repeat relationships: 92 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

146
102

Total granted

$80M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+15%

Still filing today

74%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +284% · 71% of their budget
  • JC
    Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +58%
  • JF
    Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • JC
    JVS Career Services
    one grant, 2017 · $442k
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT
    one grant, 2018 · $77k · revenue +24%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $76k · revenue +216% · 39% of their budget
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.

1
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.

Philanthropy
2
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
3
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
4
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
5
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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6
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
7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
8
Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion
9
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
10
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
11
Columbus Jewish Foundation

Make Jewish life vibrant, safe, and accessible in Columbus, Israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy
12
Jewish Federation of Columbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bellwether Enterprise Foundation. 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

235 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. 235 of the 294 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
230/235
Grantees still filing
164/235
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $18,965,068 · Arts & CultureThe Center for Holocau…+13 more: $813,762 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $14,192,525 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIO…United Way of Greater Cincinnati: $1,236,518 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greate…MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $875,813 · Philanthropy+14 more: $1,380,514 · Philanthropy+14 moreHillel the Foundation of Jewish Campus Life: $1,713,009 · OtherHillel the Foundation of…KEHILA KADOSHA ADATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $1,471,830 · OtherKEHILA KADOSHA ADATH ISR…KK BNAI YESHURUN: $1,052,884 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $848,249 · OtherJewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Inc: $788,478 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $3,364,906 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVIC…+101 more: $12,447,366 · Other+101 moreJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati: $10,977,220 · Recreation & SportsJewish Communit…Camp Livingston Inc: $2,672,010 · Recreation & SportsCamp Livingston…+4 more: $105,700 · Recreation & SportsJewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area: $8,261,103 · Human ServicesJewish Fami…+19 more: $1,339,941 · Human Services+19 moreYavneh Day School Association: $4,921,044 · EducationYavneh Da…CINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,573,863 · EducationCINCINNAT…NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,006,500 · EducationNORTHERN …+17 more: $920,544 · Education+17 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $6,371,393 · Health+15 more: $1,101,406 · Health
Arts & Culture$19,778,830Philanthropy$17,685,370Other$21,686,722Recreation & Sports$13,754,930Human Services$9,601,044Education$8,421,951Health$7,472,799

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $18,965,068 over 8y, 71% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $14,192,525 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati: $10,977,220 over 8y, 17% of budgetJewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area: $8,261,103 over 8y, 24% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $6,371,393 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYavneh Day School Association: $4,921,044 over 8y, 19% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $3,364,906 over 7y, 40% of budgetCamp Livingston Inc: $2,672,010 over 8y, 36% of budgetHillel the Foundation of Jewish Campus Life: $1,713,009 over 8y, 46% of budgetCINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,573,863 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $1,236,518 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,006,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $875,813 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Inc: $788,478 over 8y, 12% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $659,566 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHillel Foundation at Miami University: $659,312 over 8y, 61% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $447,983 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $334,968 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $255,441 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Ashreinu: $252,000 over 7y, 40% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $245,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF OHIO JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC: $242,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetISH FESTIVAL: $237,212 over 5y, 48% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION: $228,877 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $223,633 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $217,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHALOM HOUSE INC: $214,536 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HAMILTON OHIO INC: $205,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $198,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE: $195,316 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $189,900 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI SCHOLASTIC FOUNDATION: $188,750 over 7y, 76% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $180,098 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC: $179,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetJewish Education for Every Person: $177,983 over 7y, 34% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $175,660 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $166,750 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $163,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINNER FIRE INC: $155,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $131,330 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $129,302 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $118,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC: $114,620 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $109,245 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $104,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDROR FOR THE WOUNDED FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Yavneh Day School Association ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Camp Livingston Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hillel the Foundation of Jewish Campus Life ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds Hillel Foundation at Miami University ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Camp Ashreinu ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF OHIO JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ISH FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
  • Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HALOM HOUSE INC ↗

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH72.6× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Cambridge Charitable Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Williams Foundation · The Northern Cincinnai Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington 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 Federation of Cincinnati funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Innocence Project of Florida Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Tampa Jccfederation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Inner Fire Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Holocaust Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
35report 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.

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 294 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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