California · Public charity
Jewish Federation of San Diego County
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
- $5.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,555
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $690,875
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $40M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Jewish Federation of San Diego County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $2.0M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $2.1M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.7M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $917k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $1.6M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $1.5M | 39% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Family Jewish Community Centers of San Diego County | $2,470,057 | 8 | 5% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $1,657,377 | 8 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $1,328,818 | 7 | 1% |
| Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council | $1,175,627 | 7 | 1% |
| Secure Community Network Inc | $659,417 | 3 | 1% |
| Kavod | $599,596 | 6 | 3% |
| Jewish Community Camp and Retreat Center Inc- Camp Mt Chai | $529,262 | 8 | 4% |
| Jewish Family Service of San Diego | $502,324 | 8 | 1% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $465,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Diego Jewish Academy | $394,790 | 8 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Family Jewish Community Centers of San Diego County | $2,470,057 | 8 | 5% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $1,657,377 | 8 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $1,328,818 | 7 | 1% |
| Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council | $1,175,627 | 7 | 1% |
| Secure Community Network Inc | $659,417 | 3 | 1% |
| Kavod | $599,596 | 6 | 3% |
| Jewish Community Camp and Retreat Center Inc- Camp Mt Chai | $529,262 | 8 | 4% |
| Jewish Family Service of San Diego | $502,324 | 8 | 1% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $465,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Diego Jewish Academy | $394,790 | 8 | 1% |
| Hillel of San Diego | $267,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Congregation Beth Israel | $267,493 | 8 | n/a |
| Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School | $261,642 | 8 | 2% |
| Honeymoon Israel Foundation Inc | $220,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ken Jewish Community | $209,460 | 4 | 5% |
| Impact Cubed | $117,500 | 5 | 3% |
| American Jewish Committee | $113,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Camp Ramah in California Inc | $108,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Accessibility Accelerator Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 29% |
| The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Temple Solel of Northern San Diego County Inc | $93,401 | 4 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Am | $92,258 | 4 | n/a |
| Kindness Initiative | $87,730 | 4 | 6% |
| Leichtag Foundation | $85,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Beit Berl College | $81,900 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Chabad Lubavitch San Diego | $74,771 | 3 | n/a |
| Seacrest Foundation | $70,567 | 4 | 1% |
| Congregation Beth El of la Jolla | $69,135 | 3 | n/a |
| Hebrew Free Loan of San Diego | $62,237 | 2 | 5% |
| San Diego Community Kollel | $56,000 | 2 | 47% |
| Temple Emanu El of San Diego | $53,058 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple Adat Shalom | $44,183 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Hagal Sheli Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ohr Shalom Synagogue | $38,940 | 3 | n/a |
| Impactisrael Inc | $34,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Scy High Tech Inc | $32,450 | 3 | 3% |
| Torah High Schools of San Diego | $31,672 | 3 | 1% |
| Congregation Tifereth Israel of San Diego | $28,696 | 2 | n/a |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chabad of Poway | $22,833 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth Action Movement | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Chai Preschool & Infant Center | $22,056 | 2 | n/a |
| Chabad Jewish Center of Oceanside | $22,055 | 2 | n/a |
| City on a Hill Church Mountain Home Arkansas | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ujf Holdings Corp | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Shalom Institute Camp & Conference Center | $19,900 | 2 | 0% |
| Beth Jacob Congregation and Center | $17,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple Beth Shalom of Chula Vista | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Adat Yeshurun | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Butterfly Project | $15,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Chabad of Rancho Bernardo | $13,600 | 1 | n/a |
| national council of young israel | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Moishe House | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Chabad Hebrew Academy Inc | $10,836 | 1 | n/a |
| Habonim Dror Foundation Inc | $10,800 | 1 | 8% |
| The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation | $10,557 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad of Carmel Valley | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Idi Foundation Inc Fka American Friends of the Israel Democ | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad at la Costa | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International March of the Living I | $9,240 | 1 | 0% |
| Informing Change | $8,775 | 1 | n/a |
| Habonim Labor Zionist Youth Inc | $7,900 | 1 | 0% |
| House of Israel Balboa Park | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization | $7,380 | 1 | 0% |
| Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America | $7,349 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Dor Hadash | $7,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Coastal Roots Farm | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of Las Vegas Inc | $6,675 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Jewish High Inc | $6,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Israeli-American Council | $6,050 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Israel Scouts Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Union for Reform Judaism | $5,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad of Pacific Beach | $5,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Gmach Life Fund FKA Jewish Gift Closet | $5,000 | 1 | 6% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jewish Federation of San Diego County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Leichtag Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Isakow Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The San Diego Foundation · Stern Leichter Foundation · Chortek Weisman Family Foundation · Spielman Family Foundation · Allison and Robert Price Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
How this is measured
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About Jewish Federation of San Diego County
- How much does Jewish Federation of San Diego County give?
- Jewish Federation of San Diego County reported 51 itemized grants totaling $2,744,293, out of $5,716,640 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Jewish Federation of San Diego County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (45%), Youth Development (22%), International (13%).
- Who are Jewish Federation of San Diego County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lawrence Family Jewish Community Centers of San Diego County ($2.5M), The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($1.7M), Birthright Israel Foundation ($1.3M).
- Does Jewish Federation of San Diego County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of San Diego County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, Leichtag Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Where is Jewish Federation of San Diego County based?
- Jewish Federation of San Diego County is based in CA.
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