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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 FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 73 grants below total $15,507,796, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,833,130 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,325,334 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $588k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+10 grants · $11M
$75,994
Median grant
11
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Jewish Childrens Regional Services: $10k → 15%American Friends-International Young Israel Movement Inc: $175k → 13%American Friends-Int'l Young Israel Movement: $100k → 13%Am Frnds-Intl Yng Isr Mvmnt: $100k → 13%Am Frnds-Intl Yng Isr Mvmnt: $100k → 13%Am FrndsOfInternlYngIsrMvmnt: $75k → 13%Jewish Family Service: $8.4M → 16%Am Frnds-Intl Yng Isr Mvmnt: $75k → 13%Jewish Family Service: $4.3M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $2.0M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $877k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $379k → 16%Alexander Jewish Family Service: $254k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $214k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $208k → 16%Jewish Community Center Assoc: $9k → 17%Jewish Family Service: $75k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $72k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $27k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $11k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
NC
SC
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Jewish Federation of Greater Houston’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jewish Federation of Greater Houstonlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$65M · 74 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
27

Total granted

$65M
$639k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+34%

Still filing today

68%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +15% · 60% of their budget
  • ER
    Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +9%
  • SA
    SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • UF
    US FRIENDS OF MENACHEM BEGIN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -57%
  • CF
    CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI COMMUNITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +173%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +14%
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.

1
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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2
Sherit Isroel
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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 Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
7
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
8
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
9
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
10
University of Judaism Foundation
—
11
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
12
American Friends of Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun Inc

Assistance to establish a community in ramat beit shemesh, israel, founded upon torah principles, prayer, justice, charity and kindness to all peoples. to encourage and promote jewish religious activities.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Leket Israel Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 124 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
50/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Houston Jewish Community Foundation: $17,254,326 · PhilanthropyHouston Jewish Community FoundationTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $16,953,288 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA …Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc: $1,400,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $1,900,619 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $16,798,231 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERV…AMERICAN FRIENDS-INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ISRAEL MOVEMENT INC: $625,000 · Human Services+2 more: $19,000 · Human ServicesThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $4,143,087 · InternationalThe American Je…LEO BAECK EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,683,735 · InternationalLEO BAECK EDUCA…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,645,188 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL…JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $1,504,904 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY F…JUST ONE LIFE INC: $975,000 · InternationalJUST ONE LIFE I…WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $825,000 · InternationalWOMEN'S INTERNA…Central Fund of Israel: $750,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP: $700,000 · International+14 more: $2,381,845 · International+14 moreEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $8,400,065 · ReligionEvelyn Ruben…ZECHER AVROHOM INC: $975,000 · ReligionZECHER AVROH…Houston Hillel: $676,615 · ReligionHouston Hill…Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $550,000 · Religion+9 more: $683,202 · Religion+9 moreSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $1,875,050 · OtherSAVE A CHILD'S…CONGREGATION BETH YESHURUN: $1,552,398 · OtherCONGREGATION B…Congregation Beth Israel: $1,142,590 · OtherCongregation B…Robert M Beren Academy: $1,136,000 · OtherRobert M Beren…THE IRVIN M SHLENKER SCHOOL OF CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL: $1,009,741 · OtherTHE IRVIN M SH…TEXAS FRIENDS OF CHABAD-LUBAVITCH INC: $691,877 · OtherTHE BETH YESHURUN DAY SCHOOL: $616,565 · OtherTEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION: $515,048 · OtherREPAIR THE WORLD: $580,000 · OtherHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $494,500 · Other+52 more: $3,907,901 · Other+52 moreThe EmeryWeiner School Foundation: $2,176,600 · EducationGOLDBERG MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $1,145,460 · EducationSEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC: $1,112,104 · EducationThe EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education: $318,235 · Education+5 more: $578,925 · EducationSEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC: $4,475,284 · Health+2 more: $92,000 · Health
Philanthropy$37,508,233Human Services$17,442,231International$14,608,759Religion$11,284,882Other$13,521,670Education$5,331,324Health$4,567,284

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHouston Jewish Community Foundation: $17,254,326 over 8y, 13% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $16,953,288 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $16,798,231 over 8y, 60% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $8,400,065 over 8y, 15% of budgetSEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC: $4,475,284 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $4,143,087 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetThe EmeryWeiner School Foundation: $2,176,600 over 7y, 78% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $1,875,050 over 8y, 12% of budgetLEO BAECK EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,683,735 over 3y, 86% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,645,188 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $1,504,904 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBikur Vezrat Cholim Inc: $1,400,000 over 8y, 52% of budgetGOLDBERG MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $1,145,460 over 7y, 53% of budgetRobert M Beren Academy: $1,136,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetSEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC: $1,112,104 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetJUST ONE LIFE INC: $975,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetZECHER AVROHOM INC: $975,000 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $840,000 over 8y, 46% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $825,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $750,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP: $700,000 over 6y, 52% of budgetHouston Hillel: $676,615 over 8y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS-INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ISRAEL MOVEMENT INC: $625,000 over 6y, 52% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD: $580,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $550,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION: $515,048 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $494,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $434,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $407,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND INC: $350,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $325,250 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetThe EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education: $318,235 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $315,515 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $300,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETANYA COLLEGE: $300,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetCamp Young Judaea Inc: $297,607 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $268,025 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $235,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC: $229,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $225,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $220,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hillel at Texas A&M: $184,850 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetJewish Philosophy Fund Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $172,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHLAVIM INC: $170,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetLETTER OF THE LAW INC: $150,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO: $150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $146,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Commun…Jewish Communal FundThe Zev and Susan Mun…Dallas Jewish Communi…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Greater Houston Commu…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Federation of …AI and Manet Schepps …The Stanford & Joan A…The Brodsky FoundationJewish Federation of …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    10get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 124 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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