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Jewish Federation of Omaha Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Jewish Federation of Omaha Inc

To build and sustain a strong and vibrant omaha jewish community and to support jews in israel and around the world.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$803k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

90% of Jewish Federation of Omaha Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Omaha Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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6
’18
6
’19
5
’20
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’21
7
’22
6
’23
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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$18MEducation$1.2MReligion$316kArts & Culture$73kInternational$48kCivil Rights$22k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $1,562,879, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,710,376 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,147,497 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$125,360
Median grant
2
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION$802,758
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$596,530
FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY$125,360
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE$15,780
TEMPLE ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE$13,288
BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE$9,163
02The need
03

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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $18k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $2.3M → 12%WORLD ORT: $20k → 17%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $16k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $58k → 13%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $14k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $58k → 13%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $14k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $873k → 17%TEMPLE ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE: $13k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $794k → 17%TEMPLE ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE: $13k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $766k → 17%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $13k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $765k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $973k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $708k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $803k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $661k → 17%FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $142k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $658k → 17%FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $140k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $597k → 17%FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $125k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $550k → 17%FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $125k → 12%FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $125k → 12%FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $116k → 12%FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $115k → 12%FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $115k → 12%FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $99k → 12%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $17k → 12%BETH ISRAEL SYNOGOGUE: $17k → 12%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $16k → 12%NEBRASKA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 12%NEBRASKA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 12%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $14k → 12%NEBRASKA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14k → 12%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $13k → 12%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $13k → 12%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $12k → 12%BETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $11k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 9 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$1.7M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-23%
+56%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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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InternationalEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • OH
    OMAHA HEBREW ACADEMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M
  • TI
    TEMPLE ISRAEL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $122k
  • BE
    BETH EL SYNAGOGUE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $118k

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUPgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +56%
  • SS
    SOUTH STREET TEMPLE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Jewish Life Foundation
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Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
7
United Israel Appeal Inc

The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…

International
8
Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines

The mission of the jewish federation of greater des moines is to further the continuity and welfare of the des moines, ames, and other central iowa jewish communities, and to enable these jewish communities to maximize their resources by…

Philanthropy
9
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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10
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Migdal Ohr

Migdal Ohr means "tower of light" in Hebrew and serves as a beacon of hope to thousands of orphaned and neglected children. We serve over 10,000 children every year and raise them to become thriving, successful adults. Migdal Ohr gives…

Youth Development
12
American Friends of Israel Organizations Inc

Funding of organizations qualified under section 501(c) or equivalent as operating for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or that would so qualify based on the nature of such organization's operations

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Wgh Western Galilee Hospital Nahariya C/O the Lapin Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $11,267,935 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATIONTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $6,370,308 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCOMAHA HEBREW ACADEMY: $1,102,726 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL: $121,944 · OtherBETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $118,457 · OtherNEBRASKA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $72,974 · OtherBETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE: $65,195 · Other+2 more: $50,350 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $115,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP: $25,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $22,500 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $21,671 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$17,638,243Other$1,531,646Education$115,000International$47,500Civil Rights$21,671

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $11,267,935 over 9y, 14% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $6,370,308 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $72,974 over 7y, 15% of budgetWORLD ORT INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $21,671 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD ORT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …Shirley and Leonard G…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Federation of Omaha FoundationNE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · Shirley and Leonard Goldstein Supporting Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Omaha Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Omaha Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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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