· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania
The mission of the JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA is to rescue the imperiled, to care for the vulnerable, to support israel, and to revitalize and perpetuate the jewish communities of pike, wayne, monroe, and lackawanna counties.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $661k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $220,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $143,973 |
| SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $101,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $98,444 |
| BETH SHALOM CONGREGATION | $97,500 |
| YESHIVA BETH MOSHE | $40,500 |
| JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS | $37,000 |
| TEMPLE HESED RELIGIOUS SCHOOL | $27,085 |
| BAIS YAAKOV OF SCRANTON | $12,000 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF THE POCONOS | $5,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA9× · 2017–2025 · $892k · revenue +44%
- SHSCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $757k · revenue +56%
- JRJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS9× · 2017–2025 · $331k · revenue +330% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- JKJeff Kornblau Partners For Patient Advocacygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +185% · 77% of their budget
- JFJEWISH FELLOWSHIP OF HEMLOCK FARMS INCone grant, 2024 · $29k
- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +58%
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.
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.
The Organization operates an religious outreach center to promote and understand Judaism and the laws of Kosher.
The Jewish Community Council of Erie is a community-based organization serving individuals and families in the Erie area with a wide range of social and educational services, as well as capacity-building support to other community-based…
The mission of the jewish federation of northeastern pennsylvania is to rescue the imperiled, to care for the vulnerable, to support israel, and to revitalize and perpetuate the jewish communities of pike, wayne, monroe, and lackawanna…
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
Operation of a synagogue and religious outreach center. The organization also provides kosher catering services for the local Jewish population.
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…
Provides religious and cultural programs to students, faculty and alumniof three local colleges as well as the local community.
Our mission is to foster an appreciation of Jewish identity, values and culture, to promote health, education and welfare of our members, to strengthen Jewish family life, to build a sense of community and ensure Jewish continuity for our…
To further the jewish religion and promote jewish knowledge, education and community primarily through the publication and distribution of a weekly newspaper which contains jewish religious information, advice and guidance, discussion and…
Adult religious educational program
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CHABAD OF THE ABINGTONS INC ↗
- Who funds Jeff Kornblau Partners For Patient Advocacy ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON RITUALARIUM ASSOCIATION MIKVAH YISROEL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Lester G Abeloff Foundation · Sare Family Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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