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Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD is the community leader and agent of change.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$693k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$12MHuman Services$5.0MEducation$3.5MReligion$1.3MInternational$1.1MArts & Culture$858kHealth$467kCivil Rights$287kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $2,893,964 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,120,280 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $226,316 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $382k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $777k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$17,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$692,814
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$416,918
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER HARTFORD$315,000
MANDELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$290,546
SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL$218,453
NEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY$218,453
ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH CEMETERIES$130,000
JEWISH TEEN LEARNING CONNECTION$90,000
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD HILLEL$65,000
JEWISH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$55,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HILLEL - JUDAIC STUDIES$40,000
JEWISH FEDERATION ASSOCIATION OF CONNECTICUT$34,500
JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING$30,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER HARTFORD - RENT SUBSIDY$29,000
SOLOMON SCHECTER ISRAELI STUDENT SUPPORT$26,449
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 10%DIGNITY GROWS: $15k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
WI
NY
IN
PA
CT
CA
MD
TN
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Jewish Federation of Greater Hartfordlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 26% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 19 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
14

Total granted

$11M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
0%

Still filing today

63%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

  • JF
    Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +138%
  • TJ
    THE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +3%
  • SS
    SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $603k · revenue 0%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • EO
    EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
—
3
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
7
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
8
Jewish Life Foundation
—
9
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
10
Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services
11
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
12
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Isreal Council the Child Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%9%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,720

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.

05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
19/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $10,458,008 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD — $1,838,697 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD+3 more — $124,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc — $2,682,000 · OtherJewish Family Service of Greater …THE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $2,334,328 · OtherTHE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GR…UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD HILLEL — $492,185 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD HILLELBNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut — $376,027 · OtherThe Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy — $335,729 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION ASSOCIATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $258,196 · Other+14 more — $889,256 · Other+14 moreSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC — $1,796,131 · EducationSOLOMON SCHECH…NEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY — $1,397,451 · EducationNEW ENGLAND JE…+1 more — $10,000 · EducationThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $602,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $100,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $60,000 · InternationalEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISREAL COUNCIL THE CHILD INC — $50,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel — $35,000 · International+3 more — $55,000 · InternationalTHE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER HARTFORD INC — $857,500 · Arts & CultureHEBREW HOME & HOSPITAL — $225,800 · HealthCAMP LAURELWOOD INC — $89,600 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$12,420,705Other$7,367,721Education$3,203,582International$952,500Arts & Culture$857,500Health$225,800Recreation & Sports$89,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $10,458,008 over 9y, 0.8% of 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD — $1,838,697 over 9y, 5.3% 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 FEDERATION ASSOCIATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $258,196 over 9y, 25% 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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $85,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISREAL COUNCIL THE CHILD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…The Zachs Family Foun…Jewish Communal FundHartford Foundation f…Gelles Family Foundat…Jmz Charitable Founda…Cheryl Chase & Stuart…Jewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
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

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 of Greater Hartford 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 69%
  • Jewish Association for Community Living Inc — 84% of income from government
  • Jewish Federation Association of Connecticut Inc — 69% of income from government
  • University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
  • Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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