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· Public charity

Jewish Federation of Madison Inc

To inspire, build, and sustain vibrant jewish life by fostering diverse opportunities to connect at every age and mobilizing our community in common purpose, in madison, israel, and around the world.

$518k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$321k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

70% of Jewish Federation of Madison Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federations Of North America Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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8
’18
8
’19
8
’20
13
’21
8
’22
6
’23
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’24
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2025.

Philanthropy$2.7MHuman Services$596kReligion$491kYouth Development$55kEducation$39kFood & Nutrition$32kMembership Benefit$16kCivil Rights$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $472,180, the rows itemized in this filing. The $517,956 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,776 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
  • $250k+1 grant · $321k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$321,411
JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES$60,800
HILLEL FOUNDATION - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$38,000
WISCONSIN FAITH VOICES FOR JUSTICE$20,000
UW CHABAD HOUSE$8,775
WISCONSIN JEWISH CONFERENCE$8,550
BETH ISRAEL CENTER$8,200
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON EVALUATION COLLABORATIVE$6,444
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $339k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $321k → 17%RACE PLACE COALITION INC: $10k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $309k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $296k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $288k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $286k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $285k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $275k → 17%JASON TERRY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $234k → 17%HILLEL FOUNDATION - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $53k → 10%HILLEL FOUNDATION - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $52k → 10%HILLEL FOUNDATION - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $42k → 10%HILLEL FOUNDATION - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $41k → 10%HILLEL FOUNDATION - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $41k → 10%HILLEL FOUNDATION - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $40k → 10%HILLEL FOUNDATION - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $39k → 10%HILLEL FOUNDATION - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $38k → 10%HILLEL FOUNDATION - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $37k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $20k → 10%UW CHABAD HOUSE: $10k → 10%WISCONSIN JEWISH CONFERENCE: $9k → 10%UW CHABAD HOUSE: $9k → 10%WISCONSIN JEWISH CONFERENCE: $9k → 10%WISCONSIN JEWISH CONFERENCE: $9k → 10%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES: $68k → 10%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES: $68k → 10%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES: $68k → 10%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES: $67k → 10%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES: $66k → 10%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES: $66k → 10%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES: $64k → 10%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES: $61k → 10%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES: $61k → 10%WISCONSIN FAITH VOICES FOR JUSTICE: $20k → 10%WISCONSIN FAITH VOICES FOR JUSTICE: $20k → 10%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY: $35k → 10%WISCONSIN FAITH VOICES FOR JUSTICE: $10k → 10%LITERACY NETWORK: $10k → 10%BETH ISRAEL OF MADISON: $12k → 10%MADISON JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $11k → 10%MADISON JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $11k → 10%TEMPLE BETH EL OF MADISON: $10k → 10%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY: $10k → 10%TEMPLE BETH EL OF MADISON: $10k → 10%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY: $10k → 10%TEMPLE BETH EL OF MADISON: $10k → 10%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 66% of Jewish Federation of Madison Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jewish Federation of Madison Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 14 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$1.2M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+15%

Still filing today

64%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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ReligionEducationCivil RightsInternationalEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • JS
    JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES OF MADISON INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $587k · revenue +256%
  • HF
    HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $381k · revenue +172%
  • CA
    CHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue -28%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -22%
  • JT
    JASON TERRY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -82%
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.

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University of Judaism Foundation
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2
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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3
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…

Philanthropy
5
Hillel Foundation University of Wisconsin Inc

Hillel, the jewish student center at the university of wisconsin-madison, serves over 5,000 jewish students and faculty. hillel provides a home and support to various independent student organizations. every expression of jewish life is…

Religion
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Jewish Federation of Madison Inc

To inspire, build, and sustain vibrant jewish life by fostering diverse opportunities to connect at every age and mobilizing our community in common purpose, in madison, israel, and around the world.

Religion
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Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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8
Jewish Life Foundation
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Jews United for Democracy and Justice

The mission of jews united for democracy and justice (judj) is to increase public understanding of our american democracy, electoral systems and major public policy issues relating to american life and social systems.core issues for judj…

Civil Rights
10
Alliance for Israel

To educate about antisemitism and the campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel.

Civil Rights
11
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
12
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jason Terry Foundation Inc. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $2,634,290 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC+1 more: $65,460 · PhilanthropyJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES OF MADISON INC: $587,378 · OtherJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE…TEMPLE BETH EL: $32,000 · Other+13 more: $121,945 · Other+13 moreHILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $380,948 · ReligionHILLEL FOUNDA…WISCONSIN FAITH VOICES FOR JUSTICE: $50,000 · ReligionWISCONSIN FAI…CHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $40,375 · ReligionCHABAD AT THE…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $20,000 · Community ImprovementLITERACY NETWORK INC: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $6,444 · EducationJEWISH BURIAL ASSOCIATION OF MADISON INC: $15,900 · Membership Benefit
Philanthropy$2,699,750Other$741,323Religion$471,323Youth Development$35,000Community Improvement$20,000Education$16,444Membership Benefit$15,900

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $2,634,290 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES OF MADISON INC: $587,378 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $380,948 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $65,460 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN FAITH VOICES FOR JUSTICE: $50,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $40,375 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH BURIAL ASSOCIATION OF MADISON INC: $15,900 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $11,190 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $6,444 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,242 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $880 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE: $420 over 4y, 0.0% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Irving & Dorothy Levy…Irwin a and Robert D …United Way of Dane Co…Madison Community Fou…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Irving & Dorothy Levy Family FoundationWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation · Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Madison Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Madison Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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