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Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD is the community leader and agent of change. Our mission is to support, coordinate and develop priority programs and services that welcome all jewish families; bring unique jewish education and leadership training to greater hartford; improve the quality of life for the neediest in greater hartford,…

$3.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
34
Itemized grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$2.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$17,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$692,814
Organizations funded a year
11 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionHealthRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$1.5M12%
FY202430$2.5M50%
FY202315$1.4M0%
FY202213$1.2M0%
FY202115$1.3M27%
FY202011$1.2M0%
FY201913$1.1M0%
FY201814$1.1M7%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$12MHuman Services$5.0MEducation$3.5MReligion$1.3MInternational$1.1MArts & Culture$858kHealth$467kCivil Rights$287kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
IN
PA
CT
CA
MD
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc$2,682,00097%
The Joyce D & Andrew J Mandell Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center Inc$2,334,32893%
Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc$1,796,13197%
New England Jewish Academy$1,397,45197%
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Inc$857,500986%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$602,50010%
University of Hartford Hillel$492,1859n/a
BNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut$376,027910%
The Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy$335,72937%
Jewish Association for Community Living Inc$241,00091%
Hebrew Home & Hospital$225,80071%
Beth Sholom B'Nai Israel$153,0009n/a
Bnai Brith Youth Organization$102,0009n/a
American Friends of Magen David Adom$100,00010%
Chabad House of Conn Inc$97,9064n/a
Camp Laurelwood Inc$89,60051%
Mikvah Bess Israel of Greater Hartford Inc$62,0005n/a
Birthright Israel Foundation$60,00030%
The Shalem Foundation$50,00010%
American Friends of the Isreal Council the Child Inc$50,000178%
Emunah of America Inc$50,00011%
Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel$44,00010%
Central Fund of Israel$35,00010%
Friends of Atid$35,0001n/a
Anti-Defamation League$28,50040%
Yaysh Inc$25,000221%
American Friends of Orr Shalom Inc$25,00012%
US Friends of Yad Ezrah Inc$23,00011%
American Friends of Shalva Israel Inc$20,00010%
beth israel$15,8502n/a
Dignity Grows Inc$15,0001n/a
Tzohar Israel Foundation$10,00010%
University of Hartford$10,00010%
Operation Lifeshield Inc$10,0001n/a
American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc$10,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc: $2,682,000 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetThe Joyce D & Andrew J Mandell Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center Inc: $2,334,328 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetSolomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc: $1,796,131 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetNew England Jewish Academy: $1,397,451 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetThe Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Inc: $857,500 over 9y, 86% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $602,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut: $376,027 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetThe Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy: $335,729 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetJewish Association for Community Living Inc: $241,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetHebrew Home & Hospital: $225,800 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Laurelwood Inc: $89,600 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Isreal Council the Child Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetEmunah of America Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $44,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $28,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYaysh Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetAmerican Friends of Orr Shalom Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUS Friends of Yad Ezrah Inc: $23,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Shalva Israel Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTzohar Israel Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Hartford: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford IncCT28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Gelles Family Foundation · Jmz Charitable Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford

How much does Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford give?
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford reported 34 itemized grants totaling $2,893,964, out of $3,120,280 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (50%), Human Services (20%), Education (14%).
Who are Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc ($2.7M), The Joyce D & Andrew J Mandell Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center Inc ($2.3M), Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc ($1.8M).
Does Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc, The Zachs Family Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford based?
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford is based in CT.

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 40 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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