· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona
Jewish philanthropies of southern arizona (jpsa) is committed to achieving the full potential of jewish philanthropy, now and for future generations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $666k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $674,925 |
| TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $483,356 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES | $291,920 |
| TUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY | $214,535 |
| HILLEL FOUNDATION | $204,366 |
| JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM | $121,033 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL | $71,093 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $55,138 |
| CONGREGATION ANSHAEI ISRAEL | $32,655 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TUCSON TORAH CENTER | $17,100 |
| KOL AMI SYNAGOGUE | $16,947 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH | $16,800 |
| JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $8,000 |
| CAMP RAMAH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $5,250 |
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 (FY17–24, $6.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 91% of Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- TJTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +83%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +172%
- HFHILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +41% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- KGKline Galland Centergraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +299%
- SJSister Jose Women's Centergraduatedone grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue +365%
- ICInterfaith Community Servicesone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -47%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service of Southern Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kline Galland Center. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 29 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 TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds TUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds HANDMAKER JEWISH SERVICES FOR THE AGING ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Kline Galland Center ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Southern Arizona 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.