· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Greater Portland
To assure the building and strengthening of the jewish community locally, nationally, overseas and in israel, in accordance with jewish values.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $1,884,213 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,647,880 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $763,667 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 $10k8 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $649k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $391,400 |
| JEWISH FAM & CHILD SERVICES | $257,600 |
| MITTLEMAN JEWISH COMM CTR | $183,000 |
| PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY | $158,000 |
| OREGON HILLEL | $107,400 |
| OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM | $86,300 |
| MAAYAN TORAH DAY SCHOOL | $78,550 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $75,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF LA | $74,414 |
| MAIMONIDES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $65,560 |
| EASTSIDE JEWISH COMMONS | $60,000 |
| BNAI BRITH MENS CAMP ASSOCIATIO | $58,900 |
| GREATER PORTLAND HILLEL | $57,700 |
| CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF HILLS | $19,800 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $19,200 |
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, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +66% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +49%- PJPORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +38%
- MJMITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +22%
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%- OFONE FAMILY FUNDone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- RVROGUE VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY TEMPLE EMEK SHALOMone grant, 2021 · $27k
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moishe House and the most unlike its peers is Newcaje 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 60 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROBISON JEWISH HOME ↗
- Who funds B'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAAYAN HATORAH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND HILLEL ↗
- Who funds Maimonides Jewish Day School ↗
- Who funds AMEINU OUR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE JEWISH COMMONS ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
- Who funds TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Camp Solomon Schechter ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY FUND ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds NEWCAJE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Jay and Diane Zidell Charitable Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Pacific Northwest Properties Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Ellen M & Peter M Klein Foundation Inc · Stan & Madelle Rosenfeld Family Foundation · Olive Bridge Fund · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Juan Young Trust
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 Portland 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
- Mittleman Jewish Community Center — 2% of income from government
- Eastside Jewish Commons — 1% 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.