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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.

$5.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$691k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$11MYouth Development$5.2MInternational$3.2MHuman Services$1.3MReligion$1.0MEducation$902kPublic Safety & Disaster$741kCivil Rights$635kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 51 grants below total $2,744,293 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,716,640 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,972,347 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $525k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $867k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$15,555
Median grant
6
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$690,875
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL$324,602
SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK$250,214
LAWRENCE FAMILY JCC$211,750
HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO$120,000
JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$100,000
KAVOD - JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS$100,000
KEN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$94,940
THE JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$81,438
SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY$55,306
AJC SAN DIEGO$53,500
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$50,000
CAMP MOUNTAIN CHAI$44,360
JEWISH FAMILY SEVICE$43,958
SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY KOLLEL$40,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%KAVOD - JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $140k → 17%KAVOD: $125k → 17%KAVOD - JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $100k → 17%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $6k → 14%KAVOD - JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $80k → 17%KAVOD: $85k → 12%KAVOD: $69k → 12%JEWISH GIFT CLOSET: $5k → 11%IMPACT CUBED: $45k → 11%IMPACT CUBED: $20k → 11%IMPACT CUBED: $18k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $131k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SEVICE: $62k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $56k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SEVICE: $44k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $34k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SEVICE: $33k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $26k → 11%KINDNESS INITIATIVE: $38k → 11%IMPACT CUBED: $20k → 11%IMPACT CUBED: $15k → 11%KINDNESS INITIATIVE: $21k → 11%KINDNESS INITIATIVE: $19k → 11%KINDNESS INITIATIVE: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
NV
CA
CO
MD
DE
TN
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $2.1M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$2.1M · 100% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT · SERVING THE NEEDY

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 43 repeat orgs$528k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
25

Total granted

$13M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+10%

Still filing today

70%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • LF
    LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +21%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +24%
  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • AA
    ACCESSIBILITY ACCELERATOR INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0% · 29% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HAGAL SHELI INC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +10%
  • TE
    TEMPLE EMANU-EL
    one grant, 2023 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
—
3
The Jerusalem Connection
—
4
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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8
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
9
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
10
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
11
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
12
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leichtag Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr12%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr12%69%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
14%
12,115/84,677

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 87 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $9,485,348 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $1,235,625 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO+5 more — $292,562 · PhilanthropyLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $2,470,057 · OtherLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH C…HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO — $267,500 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL — $267,493 · OtherSOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL — $261,642 · OtherSAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY — $394,790 · OtherSAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMYKEN JEWISH COMMUNITY — $209,460 · Other+50 more — $1,349,592 · Other+50 moreThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $1,657,377 · InternationalThe American Jewish …BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,328,818 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FO…JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $1,175,627 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR IS…+7 more — $285,500 · International+7 moreKAVOD — $599,596 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $502,324 · Human ServicesIMPACT CUBED — $117,500 · Human ServicesKINDNESS INITIATIVE — $87,730 · Human Services+2 more — $11,050 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER INC- CAMP MT CHAI — $529,262 · ReligionHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $220,000 · ReligionSAN DIEGO COMMUNITY KOLLEL — $56,000 · Religion+2 more — $27,500 · ReligionSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC — $659,417 · Public Safety & DisasterANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $465,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $113,500 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$11,013,535Other$5,220,534International$4,447,322Human Services$1,318,200Religion$832,762Public Safety & Disaster$659,417Civil Rights$578,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $9,485,348 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $2,470,057 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $1,657,377 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,328,818 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $1,235,625 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $1,175,627 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC — $659,417 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKAVOD — $599,596 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER INC- CAMP MT CHAI — $529,262 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $502,324 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $465,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY — $394,790 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO — $267,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetSOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL — $261,642 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $220,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKEN JEWISH COMMUNITY — $209,460 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetIMPACT CUBED — $117,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $113,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC — $108,750 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACCESSIBILITY ACCELERATOR INC — $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKINDNESS INITIATIVE — $87,730 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetLEICHTAG FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSEACREST FOUNDATION — $70,567 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO — $62,237 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO COMMUNITY KOLLEL — $56,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAGAL SHELI INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $34,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSCY HIGH TECH INC — $32,450 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTORAH HIGH SCHOOLS OF SAN DIEGO — $31,672 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUJF HOLDINGS CORP — $20,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetSHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER — $19,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Butterfly Project — $15,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFJC — $11,732 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABONIM DROR FOUNDATION INC — $10,800 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION — $10,557 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I — $9,240 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHabonim Labor Zionist Youth Inc — $7,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $7,380 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL ROOTS FARM — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL — $6,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds KAVOD ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER INC- CAMP MT CHAI ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds SOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KEN JEWISH COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT CUBED ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ACCESSIBILITY ACCELERATOR INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds KINDNESS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds LEICHTAG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
  • Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY KOLLEL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HAGAL SHELI INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds SCY HIGH TECH INC ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Leichtag FoundationJewish Community Foun…Isakow FoundationJewish Federation Cou…The San Diego Foundat…Stern Leichter Founda…Chortek Weisman Famil…Spielman Family Found…Allison and Robert Pr…Jewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA66.6× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Diego County 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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