· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 73 grants below total $15,507,796 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,833,130 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,325,334 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $588k
- $50k–250k35 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+10 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Jewish Federations of North America | $3,531,800 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | $1,881,800 |
| Jewish Agency for Israel-North American Council | $1,484,904 |
| Houston Jewish Community Fndn | $1,430,856 |
| Evelyn Rubenstein JCC | $573,612 |
| Hadassah | $494,500 |
| Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services | $383,965 |
| The EmeryWeiner School | $318,235 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $255,000 |
| Alexander Jewish Family Service | $253,500 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $235,000 |
| Save A Child's Heart Foundation | $225,000 |
| Nefesh B'Nefesh | $225,000 |
| Bikur Verzat Cholim Inc | $225,000 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah | $210,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $17.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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
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.
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 Houston’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.
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.
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.
74 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +15% · 60% of their budget
- EREvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston8× · 2017–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +9%
- SASEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- UFUS FRIENDS OF MENACHEM BEGIN HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -57%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +14%
- CFCHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI COMMUNITIESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +173%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To further jewish education in israel
Religious School
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hillel at Texas a&M. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
84 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. 84 of the 124 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Houston Jewish Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds The EmeryWeiner School Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds LEO BAECK EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLDBERG MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Robert M Beren Academy ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC ↗
- Who funds JUST ONE LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds ZECHER AVROHOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP ↗
- Who funds Houston Hillel ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS-INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ISRAEL MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds The EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETANYA COLLEGE ↗
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.
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
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 Houston 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.