· Public charity
Jewish Federation of San Antonio
The JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO is the coordinating and convening body dedicated to building the jewish community, nurturing the quality of jewish life, and securing a favorable jewish future in san antonio, israel and worldwide inspired by jewish religious teachings.
Read this first · the figures below need context
67% of Jewish Federation of San Antonio’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Jewish Federation of San Antonio named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $956k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 21 grants below total $955,505 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,255,786 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $300,281 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $735k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA | $228,558 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN ANTONIO | $164,414 |
| BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $156,013 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - UKRAINE CRISIS | $76,234 |
| SHMUEL BASS TORAH ACADEMY OF SAN ANTONIO | $55,100 |
| TEXAS HILLEL | $55,000 |
| STARR FAMILY JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $40,479 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION | $31,500 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $21,333 |
| CONGREGATION RODFEI SHOLOM | $20,500 |
| CONGREGATION AGUDAS ACHIM | $19,299 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $11,063 |
| CHEVRA KADISHA | $10,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION | $9,500 |
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, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +18% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k 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
- JFJewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +44%
- BJBARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +17%
- SFSTARR FAMILY JEWISH DAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $614k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF MOLDOVAone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -97%
- FOFriends of Kishinev Jewryone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -42%
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue -6%
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.
Serving the jewish community by engaging, connecting, supporting and celebrating jewish life, values and culture in el paso, las cruces, israel and beyond.
Jcssa focuses on growing its endowment in order to continue supporting the work of golden manor, inc., dba san antonio jewish senior services, which addresses the needs and enriches the quality of life for san antonio jewish older adults…
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
The jewish federation of san antonio is the coordinating and convening body dedicated to building the jewish community, nurturing the quality of jewish life, and securing a favorable jewish future in san antonio, israel and worldwide…
To serve and enrich the Jewish community and those who support and identify with it, in the greater Sacramento area, Israel, and the world.
The jewish community federation and endowment fund is a philanthropic catalyst, connecting people to the power we have as a jewish community to improve the world. we partner with donors, nonprofits, & foundations to address the pressing…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is Lake Tahoe Music Festival. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 54 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds STARR FAMILY JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPUS OF THE SAN ANTONIO JEWISH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN MANOR INC DBA SAN ANTONIO JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN GEERZ FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF MOLDOVA ↗
- Who funds Friends of Kishinev Jewry ↗
- Who funds Camp Young Judaea Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds Lifting Hands International ↗
- Who funds OHR LANU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Freeman Emma Trust F0211400 · Freeman Educational Foundation #2113 · Bar-Yadin Family Foundation · Braverman Family Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Greater Houston Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 San Antonio 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.
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.