How much does Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas give?

Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas reported 38 itemized grants totaling $3,604,250, out of $6,262,477 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Philanthropy (26%), Education (15%).

Who are Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Community Center of Dallas ($7.7M), Jewish Family Service of Dallas Inc Dba Jewish Family Service ($7.2M), Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ($2.8M).

Does Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dallas Jewish Community Foundation, Sylvan T Baer Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc.

Where is Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas based?

Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas is based in TX.

Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas

Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas

The JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS coordinates and implements fundraising, social planning, leadership development and community relations for the jewish community locally & abroad.

$6.3M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$750k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$20MPhilanthropy$12MEducation$6.8MReligion$3.4MArts & Culture$3.0MYouth Development$298kFood & Nutrition$93kInternational$90kOther$0

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 38 grants below total $3,604,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,262,477 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,658,227 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 · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k27 grants · $570k
$50k–250k5 grants · $503k
$250k+5 grants · $2.5M

$23,800

Median grant

States reached

$26M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AARON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER	$750,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DALLAS	$690,000
THE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION	$400,000
AKIBA YAVNEH ACADEMY	$368,000
TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF DALLAS	$315,900
ANN & NATE LEVINE ACADEMY	$229,150
TEXAS TORAH INSTITUTE	$85,400
COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC	$82,500
MESORAH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS	$56,000
TORCH DALLAS	$50,000
JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE (JCRS)	$46,000
UT CHABAD HOUSE	$45,000
TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION (AUSTIN)	$45,000
CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION	$43,000
NCSYJSU DALLAS	$40,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $8.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$33M · 47 repeat orgs$449k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$33M

$449k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+8%

Still filing today

53%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationReligionInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

JC
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS
9× · 2017–2025 · $7.7M · revenue +57%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
9× · 2017–2025 · $7.2M · revenue +263%
TD
TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF DALLAS
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +39%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
one grant, 2024 · $225k · revenue 0%
YE
YAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT
one grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue +14%
DJ
DALLAS JEWISH BURIAL FUND
one grant, 2023 · $25k

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.

Texas Jewish Security Initiative

Crime & Legal

University of Judaism Foundation

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Sherit Isroel

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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation

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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

Dorot Foundation

Philanthropy

Tamim Academies

Philanthropy

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

Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International

The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc

Religion

Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Hillel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Candid. 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 69 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/37

Grantees still filing

27/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$11,711,297Human Services$8,417,270Recreation & Sports$7,690,200Education$6,252,131Other$6,040,118Arts & Culture$4,900,513Religion$533,405

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

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dallas Jewish Community FoundationTX66.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Sylvan T Baer Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Mb and Edna Zale Foundation · Feinstein Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Jeff & Bonnie Whitman Charitable Foundation · Laurie and Todd Platt Family Charitable Foundation · Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Chabad on Campus International Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego

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 Greater Dallas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home