Kentucky · Public charity
Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc
Jhf is a grant making organization with a mission to support the jewish heritage mitzvah fund and to support the medical and general community of kentucky (excluding boone, kenton and campbell counties) and floyd, clark, harrison and scott counties in indiana (schedule o) through scientific and medical education/research, supporting…
- $10M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,999,236
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 37
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $337M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $810k 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 | 34 | $7.3M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $6.9M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $6.6M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $8.1M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $4.4M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $14M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $3.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $21,775,302 | 7 | 17% |
| Jewish Family & Career Services of Louisville Inc | $4,593,515 | 7 | 31% |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | $1,931,119 | 3 | 0% |
| The Temple Congregation Adath Isreal B Rith Sholom Inc | $1,412,954 | 7 | n/a |
| The Home of the Innocents Inc | $1,250,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Congregation Adath Jeshurun | $1,026,642 | 7 | n/a |
| Community Ventures Corporation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Louisville Urban League Sports and Learning Complex Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc | $790,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Maryhurst Inc | $741,175 | 6 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 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: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Metro United Way Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc
- How much does Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc give?
- Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc reported 36 grants totaling $10,235,494 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Education (27%), Health (9%).
- Who are Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Louisville Foundation Inc ($22M), Jewish Family & Career Services of Louisville Inc ($4.6M), University of Kentucky Research Foundation ($1.9M).
- Does Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
- Where is Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc based?
- Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc is based in KY.
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