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Jewish Funders Network

The mission of the JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK is to help philanthropists maximize the impact of their giving by assisting them in the: (a) identification of needs and challenges; (b) shaping of individual and collective jewish responses to those needs and challenges; and (c) pursuit of opportunities to address those needs and challenges,…

$7.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

International$7.3MEducation$3.7MArts & Culture$2.4MReligion$1.4MHealth$928kCivil Rights$918kPhilanthropy$801kHuman Services$353kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $1,278,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,229,363 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,951,363 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $333k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $931k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULANE UNIVERSITY$150,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$100,000
OPENDOR MEDIA$100,000
JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC$100,000
AF ASSOC ADVANCEMENT COMMUNITY CTRS ISRAEL$100,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$100,000
STOP ANTISEMITISM$100,000
REBOOT INC$65,000
FORWARD ASSOCIATION$60,000
AFAACCI$56,000
JTA-MJL NEW CORP$40,000
AYIN PRESS LIMITED$30,000
YETZIRAH$30,000
JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT$25,000
BELOVED BUILDERS INC$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $346k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BELOVED BUILDERS INC: $25k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF CINCINNATI AREA: $65k → 16%STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $63k → 9%RESPECTABILITY: $25k → 8%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%BELOVED BUILDERS INC: $10k → 9%STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $62k → 9%STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 9%STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 9%BUILD HOPE: $15k → 14%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6k → 17%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $2.9M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Israel$2.4M · 85% · 18 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM FUNDING

Argentina$274k · 10% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM FUNDING

Switzerland$77k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM FUNDING

Nigeria$36k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM FUNDING

North America (Canada and Mexico)$36k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM FUNDING

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 27% of Jewish Funders Network’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.

Jewish Funders Networklessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.4M · 40 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
50

Total granted

$9.4M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • RI
    REBOOT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $566k · revenue +87%
  • JB
    JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $477k · revenue +90%
  • AA
    ASYLUM ARTS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $411k · revenue +1% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $835k · revenue -90% · 72% of their budget
  • CC
    COMBAT CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $495k · 32% of their budget
  • KI
    KESHET INC
    one grant, 2023 · $298k · revenue -31%

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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
The Jerusalem Connection
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3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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4
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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6
Sherit Isroel
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7
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
8
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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10
Jewish Life Foundation
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11
The Bnai Jacob Foundation
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12
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Family Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Immigrant Worker SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …Ymca Youth DevelopmentSenior Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/109
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,651

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.

05the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 109 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/86
Grantees still filing
60/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $3,211,100 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCTHE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $835,249 · PhilanthropyTHE FAMILY FOUNDATIONTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $450,134 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORT…+10 more — $372,655 · Philanthropy+10 moreRASHI SCHOOL INC — $3,100,000 · OtherRASHI SCHOOL INCASYLUM ARTS INC — $410,834 · OtherASYLUM ARTS INCTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC — $315,833 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INCSAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $195,094 · Other+46 more — $1,314,414 · Other+46 moreNEW ISRAEL FUND — $1,670,600 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF — $669,443 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TH…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC — $406,211 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-S…THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC — $250,000 · InternationalTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES IN…HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $215,560 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $165,000 · InternationalTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC — $150,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $145,000 · International+11 more — $565,878 · International+11 moreJEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC — $477,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH BOO…COUNCIL OF AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUMS INC — $282,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL OF…The Forward Association Inc — $270,000 · Arts & CultureThe Forwar…70 FACES MEDIA INC — $230,000 · Arts & Culture70 FACES M…CONCERTS IN MOTION INC — $126,000 · Arts & CultureCONCERTS I…JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT — $70,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $290,750 · Arts & Culture+8 moreREBOOT INC — $565,833 · ReligionSchusterman Initiatives Inc — $150,060 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $100,000 · ReligionEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston — $89,538 · ReligionTHE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT — $45,000 · ReligionCOMBAT CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM FOUNDATION — $495,000 · Civil RightsKESHET INC — $298,001 · Civil RightsTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $175,000 · EducationMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationHEBREW COLLEGE — $45,200 · EducationIsrael Venture Network — $30,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationThe George Washington University — $15,000 · Education
Philanthropy$4,869,138Other$5,336,175International$4,237,692Arts & Culture$1,745,750Religion$950,431Civil Rights$793,001Education$390,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $3,211,100 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $1,670,600 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $835,249 over 1y, 72% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF — $669,443 over 5y, 39% of budgetREBOOT INC — $565,833 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetCOMBAT CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM FOUNDATION — $495,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetJEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC — $477,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $450,134 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASYLUM ARTS INC — $410,834 over 3y, 42% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC — $406,211 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC — $315,833 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKESHET INC — $298,001 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUMS INC — $282,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc — $270,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC — $250,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC — $230,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $215,560 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $195,094 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $165,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis Inc — $153,176 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSchusterman Initiatives Inc — $150,060 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $145,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERTS IN MOTION INC — $126,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $105,685 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA — $100,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $97,082 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston — $89,538 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $77,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH PLAYS PROJECT — $70,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetTRIBE MEDIA CORP — $65,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area — $65,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC — $60,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetThe Neighborhood An Urban Center for Jewish Life — $60,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO INC — $50,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJewish Women International — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NAZARETH PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE — $45,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 2.3% 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.

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 Fede…Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Foun…FjcThe Shimon Ben Joseph…The Jewish Federation…Jewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…United Jewish Appeal-…Jewish Federation Cou…The Harold Grinspoon …
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA41.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Fjc · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Harold Grinspoon 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 Funders Network 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 · 100%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 109 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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