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Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids

The JEWISH FEDERATION OF GRAND RAPIDS strengthens and unifies the jewish community and functions as an umbrella organization to provide for the cultural, social and financial needs of our community, world jewry and the state of israel.

$192k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2020
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100% of Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federations Of North America Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
0
’18
0
’19
1
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2025
$149k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$148,567
Largest grant, FY2025
$148,567
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$15M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$1.4M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Chabad House of Western Michigan Inc$6,0001n/a

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About Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids

How much does Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids give?
Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids reported 1 itemized grants totaling $148,567, out of $191,559 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are International (100%).
Who are Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Congregation Chabad House of Western Michigan Inc ($6k).
Where is Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids based?
Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids is based in MI.

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 2 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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