· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
The JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA mobilizes financial and volunteer resources to create a bright future for jewish people everywhere.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 286 grants below total $33,006,212 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $34,345,078 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,338,866 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 $10k52 grants · $352k
- $10k–50k143 grants · $3.0M
- $50k–250k72 grants · $8.1M
- $250k+19 grants · $21M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $9,723,902 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $1,642,758 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $1,105,531 |
| MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $1,079,700 |
| KLEINLIFE | $876,621 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC | $876,200 |
| GRATZ COLLEGE | $778,975 |
| JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE | $744,641 |
| JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA | $647,763 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $550,000 |
| BETH SHOLOM CONGREGATION | $533,306 |
| KAISERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CTR | $527,521 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $477,384 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $400,000 |
| TRIBE 12 | $372,255 |
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 (FY17–25, $25.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
384 repeat relationships — 213 still active in FY2025, 171 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- WTWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC2× · 2020–2022 · $23M · revenue +172% · 43% of their budget
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +2%
- JLJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE9× · 2017–2025 · $6.8M · revenue +84% · 63% of their budget
Funded once
- CNCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INCone grant, 2017 · $600k · revenue +17%
THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue -31%- MCMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue -52%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fischer Memorial Burial Park. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
579 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. 579 of the 696 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE) ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MADLYN AND LEONARD ABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KAISERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds TRIBE 12 ↗
- Who funds JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE HILLEL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds KOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PENN HILLEL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds Golden Slipper Camp ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILLY HILLEL NETWORK INC ↗
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: Erlbaum Family Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Snider Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ
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 Philadelphia 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
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.