How much did JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE grant in FY2023?

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE reported 57 grants totaling $4,143,518 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE based?

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE is based in WA.

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE

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· Public charity

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE

The federation leads a strong jewish puget sound by serving as a community voice, (see schedule o) strengthening connections to israel and world jewry, and making investments in jewish life, for today and the next generation.

$4.1M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$367k

Largest

01What you fund

0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Philanthropy$5.1MHuman Services$3.0MInternational$1.6MHealth$1.2MEducation$943kReligion$452kRecreation & Sports$263kArts & Culture$217kYouth Development$98kOther$4.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

kavanabikurlivecreate meaningfulconnectcorporationinstitutions

2020

gamefieldsyad sarahjerusalemunioncreativemaintain hebrew

2021

faithdonationsunionb'naitogetherdiversity orthodoxyinstitutions

2022

rightsstewardpoweradvancebringyad sarahnorthwest film

2023

artnorthwest filmfilm forumfocusmaydaymediadiversity orthodoxy

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k15 grants · $112k
$10k–50k30 grants · $644k
$50k–250k10 grants · $847k
$250k+2 grants · $690k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$85M

Total assets

Largest grants

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$367,117
THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC$323,135
THE KLINE GALLAND CENTER$147,374
TEMPLE BETH EL$110,505
STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$99,996
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$86,500
HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY$85,893
HILLEL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE AT UW$79,511
HERZL-NER TAMID CONGREGATION$72,312
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$60,395
TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI$53,542
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM$51,000
PENN STATE HILLEL$48,325
NORTHWEST YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL$37,700
STANDWITHUS NORTHWEST$36,360

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$15M · 80 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

80 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2023, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$15M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+46%

Still filing today

76%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationOther

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

TJ
THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +6%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +79%
TK
THE KLINE GALLAND CENTER
6× · 2018–2023 · $782k · revenue +473%

Funded once

SF
SEATTLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $592k · revenue +106%
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $249k · revenue +179%
BB
B'NAI B'RITH CAMPgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $53k · revenue +86%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle

Philanthropy

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center.it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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United Jewish Foundation

The united jewish foundation serves as custodian of the detroit jewish community's assets. the foundation is committed to preserving and growing the assets to meet the community's long term needs.

Philanthropy

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.

Philanthropy

Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival

Bringing community together through films that show the jewish culture and traditions.

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Makes the diversity of jewish experience relevant through art & programs that challenge & inspire.

Arts & Culture

The Jewish Fund

To support the health care needs of the jewish community and the broader detroit community. to further positive relations between the jewish community and the city of detroit.

Philanthropy

University of Judaism Foundation

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American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

To raise funds to support the operations and secure the israel philharmonic's financial future.

Arts & Culture

JEWISHColorado

We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of Eastern

The federation collects contributions from the public and distributes them to various agencies, individuals and other non-profit organizations to benefit the jewish and local community. the federation provides direct services to seniors,…

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Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moishe House and the most unlike its peers is Tacoma Musical Playhouse. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/139

the rest of the field

11%

4,079/38,829

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.

05the grantee network

111 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

107/111

Grantees still filing

81/111

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$5,131,282Other$4,553,411Human Services$2,961,937International$1,610,851Health$1,164,612Education$943,365Religion$452,030

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA62.3× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Samis Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · American Gift Fund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Lott Foundation · Herman & Faye Sarkowsky · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Grays Harbor Community Foundation · Artsfund · Medina Foundation

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 organisation JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MAYDAY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +58% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823914026 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MAYDAY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle?

Find your warmest path to Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

111 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle?

More from the funding graph

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

111 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle?

More from the funding graph