How much does Jewish Federation of Greater Houston give?

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston reported 73 itemized grants totaling $15,507,796, out of $16,833,130 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jewish Federation of Greater Houston fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Human Services (21%), Religion (14%).

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

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Family Service ($17M), Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ($8.4M), Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc ($4.5M).

Does Jewish Federation of Greater Houston fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Jewish Community Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation.

Where is Jewish Federation of Greater Houston based?

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston is based in TX.

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Texas · Public charity

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston

The Jewish Federation of Greater Houston (JFGH) works with partner organizations and members of the community to create a thriving and vibrant Jewish community here in Houston, in Israel, and around the world.

$17M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 73
Itemized grants FY2024: 47
Organizations funded FY2023: 13%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $16M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $75,994
Largest grant, FY2024: $3,531,800
Organizations funded a year: 38 to 64; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 11
Total assets, FY2024: $17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Jewish Federation of Greater Houston funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalArts & CultureEducationReligionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	61	$10M	26%
FY2023	47	$4.5M	13%
FY2022	47	$5.9M	13%
FY2021	64	$6.6M	25%
FY2020	38	$4.0M	16%
FY2019	38	$11M	3%
FY2018	58	$21M	43%
FY2017	41	$5.3M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$31MHuman Services$22MReligion$15MInternational$14MPublic Safety & Disaster$10MEducation$5.7MHealth$4.3MArts & Culture$595kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Jewish Family Service	$16,798,231	8	60%
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston	$8,400,065	8	15%
Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc	$4,475,284	8	6%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc	$4,143,087	8	0%
The EmeryWeiner School Foundation	$2,176,600	7	78%
Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc	$1,875,050	8	12%
Leo Baeck Education Center Foundation	$1,683,735	3	86%
Congregation Beth Yeshurun	$1,552,398	3	n/a
Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council	$1,504,904	2	4%
Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc	$1,400,000	8	52%

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All grantees of Jewish Federation of Greater Houston by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Jewish Family Service	$16,798,231	8	60%
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston	$8,400,065	8	15%
Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc	$4,475,284	8	6%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc	$4,143,087	8	0%
The EmeryWeiner School Foundation	$2,176,600	7	78%
Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc	$1,875,050	8	12%
Leo Baeck Education Center Foundation	$1,683,735	3	86%
Congregation Beth Yeshurun	$1,552,398	3	n/a
Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council	$1,504,904	2	4%
Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc	$1,400,000	8	52%
Goldberg Montessori School	$1,145,460	7	53%
Congregation Beth Israel	$1,142,590	8	n/a
Robert M Beren Academy	$1,136,000	6	8%
Sephardic Gan Torat Emet Inc	$1,112,104	8	7%
The Irvin M Shlenker School of Congregation Beth Israel	$1,009,741	8	n/a
Just One Life Inc	$975,000	8	18%
Zecher Avrohom Inc	$975,000	8	10%
The Koby Mandell Foundation Inc	$840,000	8	46%
Women's International Zionist Organization	$825,000	7	3%
Central Fund of Israel	$750,000	4	0%
American Friends of Wgh Western Galilee Hospital Nahariya C/O the Lapin Group	$700,000	6	52%
Texas Friends of Chabad-Lubavitch Inc	$691,877	8	n/a
Houston Hillel	$676,615	8	18%
American Friends-International Young Israel Movement Inc	$625,000	6	52%
The Beth Yeshurun Day School	$616,565	6	n/a
Repair the World	$580,000	2	8%
Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel	$550,000	6	2%
Texas Hillel Foundation	$515,048	8	6%
Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc	$494,500	1	0%
Birthright Israel Foundation	$434,500	7	0%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces	$407,500	3	0%
Coordinating Council for the Jewish Homeland Inc	$350,000	2	18%
Holocaust Museum Houston	$325,250	4	2%
The EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education	$318,235	1	1%
American Friends of Leket Israel Inc	$315,515	6	2%
Emunah of America Inc	$300,000	2	4%
American Friends of Netanya College	$300,000	2	25%
Camp Young Judaea Inc	$297,607	6	3%
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra	$268,025	7	1%
American Friends of Magen David Adom	$235,000	1	0%
American Friends of Latet Humanitarian Aid Inc	$229,000	5	3%
Union for Reform Judaism	$228,550	5	n/a
Nefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc	$225,000	1	2%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc	$220,000	2	0%
Congregation Emanu El	$217,625	5	n/a
The Hillel at Texas A&M	$184,850	8	6%
Jewish Philosophy Fund Inc	$175,000	2	20%
Moishe House	$172,000	8	0%
American Friends of Shlavim Inc	$170,000	3	33%
Colel Chabad	$153,300	4	n/a
Letter of the Law Inc	$150,000	2	4%
US Friends of Menachem Begin Heritage Foundation	$150,000	1	n/a
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization	$146,550	6	0%
Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc	$135,000	1	0%
Congregation Beth Shalom of the Woodlands	$134,641	6	n/a
Israaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc	$130,000	3	1%
Ut Chabad House	$115,415	5	n/a
Bnos Yisroel of Houston Inc	$113,425	7	2%
American Friends of Kolot Inc	$110,500	3	30%
Friends of Givat Haviva	$100,000	2	3%
Worldwide Friends Foundation	$100,000	1	0%
Congregation Brith Shalom	$85,500	3	n/a
University of Houston	$80,506	2	n/a
World Ort Inc	$80,000	1	n/a
Christian Friends of Israeli Communities	$75,000	1	n/a
American Friends of Herzog Hospital Inc	$75,000	1	6%
Judaism and Democracy Action Alliance of North America Inc	$70,000	3	n/a
American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc	$67,820	4	1%
Isralight South Florida Inc	$59,000	1	2%
Bnai Brith Youth Organization	$56,350	2	n/a
Chabad of the Brazos	$56,250	4	n/a
Chabad at Rice Inc	$56,248	4	n/a
Zaka North Inc	$51,800	1	1%
Nli USA Inc	$50,000	1	1%
United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston	$46,761	3	n/a
Chabad on Campus International Inc	$45,000	2	0%
American Society for Yad Vashem Inc	$40,000	3	0%
The Relief Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	41%
Meyerland Minyan Inc	$35,500	2	n/a
Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism	$35,000	2	n/a
The Houston Friendship and Wellness Circle Inc	$35,000	3	7%
Temple Sinai	$31,500	2	n/a
Congregation Beth Rambam	$26,500	2	n/a
Congregation Knesseth Israel	$25,036	1	n/a
Friends of Roots	$25,000	1	5%
Interfaithfamilycom Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Temple Beth Torah Inc	$25,000	2	n/a
American Friends of Sar El Inc	$25,000	1	28%
Impactisrael Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Honestreportingcom Inc	$20,000	1	1%
American Friends of Natal Inc	$20,000	2	2%
Bshvil Hamachar	$20,000	1	n/a
Temple Beth Tikvah	$19,500	2	n/a
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America	$18,000	1	n/a
National Conference on Soviet Jewry	$17,402	2	1%
American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc	$17,000	1	0%
Aishel House Inc	$16,000	2	n/a
Endowment Funds of Congregation Emanu El of Houston	$13,000	1	1%
Jewish Community North	$12,500	1	n/a
Congregation Beth El	$12,500	1	n/a
Congregation Beth Am	$12,500	1	n/a
Chabad of West Houston Inc	$12,500	1	n/a
Congregation Shma Koleinu	$12,500	1	n/a
Houston Kashruth Association Inc	$10,762	1	3%
Congregation Jewish Community North	$10,500	1	n/a
American Friends of le Korsa Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Congregation Torah Vachesed	$10,000	1	n/a
Congregation Shaar Hashalom	$10,000	1	n/a
The Shul of Bellaire Chabad Lubavitch	$10,000	1	n/a
Torch Torah Outreach Resource Center of Houston	$10,000	1	n/a
Jewish Children's Regional Service	$10,000	1	1%
Jewish Community Centers Association of North America	$9,000	1	0%
Gulf Meadows Church Inc	$9,000	1	n/a
Chabad of Uptown	$7,500	1	n/a
National Council of Young Israel	$7,500	1	n/a
Chabad of Cypress and Northwest Houston	$7,500	1	n/a
Young Judaea Camp Tel Yehudah Inc	$5,200	1	0%

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 72.

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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.

Houston Jewish Community FoundationTX69.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · AI and Manet Schepps Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · The Brodsky Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

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 Houston

How much does Jewish Federation of Greater Houston give?: Jewish Federation of Greater Houston reported 73 itemized grants totaling $15,507,796, out of $16,833,130 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jewish Federation of Greater Houston fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Human Services (21%), Religion (14%).
Who are Jewish Federation of Greater Houston's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Family Service ($17M), Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ($8.4M), Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc ($4.5M).
Does Jewish Federation of Greater Houston fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of Greater Houston?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Jewish Community Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation.
Where is Jewish Federation of Greater Houston based?: Jewish Federation of Greater Houston is based in TX.