How much does Jewish Federation of San Antonio give?

Jewish Federation of San Antonio reported 21 itemized grants totaling $955,505, out of $1,255,786 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jewish Federation of San Antonio fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Human Services (23%), International (18%).

Who are Jewish Federation of San Antonio's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc ($1.3M), Barshop Jewish Community Center of San Antonio ($1.2M), Starr Family Jewish Day School ($614k).

Does Jewish Federation of San Antonio fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of San Antonio?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Freeman Emma Trust F0211400, Freeman Educational Foundation #2113.

Where is Jewish Federation of San Antonio based?

Jewish Federation of San Antonio is based in TX.

Jewish Federation of San Antonio

Jewish Federation of San Antonio at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$1.3M

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$229k

Largest

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

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

01What it funds

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.8MHuman Services$2.7MInternational$2.0MReligion$2.0MEducation$425kHealth$197kRecreation & Sports$128kYouth Development$114kOther$0

02FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 21 grants below total $955,505, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,255,786 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $300,281 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 · FY2023

Under $10k7 grants · $54k
$10k–50k8 grants · $166k
$50k–250k6 grants · $735k

$19,299

Median grant

States reached

$33M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.9M · 27 repeat orgs$860k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.9M

$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

-18%

Still filing today

56%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalReligionHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

JF
Jewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +44%
BJ
BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +17%
SF
STARR FAMILY JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $614k · revenue +19%

Funded once

TF
THE FRIENDS OF MOLDOVA
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -97%
FO
Friends of Kishinev Jewry
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -42%
SA
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue -6%

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.

Jewish Federation of El Paso and Las Cruces

Serving the jewish community by engaging, connecting, supporting and celebrating jewish life, values and culture in el paso, las cruces, israel and beyond.

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Jewish Care System of San Antonio

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…

Housing & Shelter

American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion

American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion

San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education

University of Judaism Foundation

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Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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Jewish Federation of the Sacra

To serve and enrich the Jewish community and those who support and identify with it, in the greater Sacramento area, Israel, and the world.

Philanthropy

Texas Jewish Security Initiative

Crime & Legal

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

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…

Philanthropy

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

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…

Philanthropy

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…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Area Jewish Federation; 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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 54 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/38

Grantees still filing

20/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$5,301,703Human Services$2,570,309Other$1,966,279Education$635,180International$481,900Religion$282,960Community Improvement$219,142

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.

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home