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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…

$8.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.8M
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 FY2019–2024.

Philanthropy$23MEducation$18MHealth$6.3MHuman Services$5.5MReligion$2.8MYouth Development$2.4MArts & Culture$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $249k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.7M
$125,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$305M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$1,765,142
JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE$1,298,778
HOME OF THE INNOCENTS$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$667,519
JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES$444,565
BLUEPRINT 502$300,000
300 FOR 300$250,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BLUEGRASS$225,000
THE TEMPLE$202,025
FOOD LITERACY PROJECT$200,000
KENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL$200,000
ADATH JESHURUN$168,175
SHABBAT PROJECT DBA ONETABLE$160,000
KENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH$150,000
CENTRE COLLEGE$145,940
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPTION TO SUCCESS: $50k → 15%OPTION TO SUCCESS: $25k → 15%YMCA LOUISVILLE: $100k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $100k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $1.0M → 15%THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $250k → 15%THE BOOK WORKS: $125k → 15%THE BOOK WORKS: $30k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS HAVEN: $100k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS HAVEN: $75k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS HAVEN: $50k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $1.1M → 15%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $500k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $450k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $445k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $436k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $420k → 15%BLUEPRINT 502: $300k → 15%YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE: $100k → 15%YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE: $100k → 15%YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE: $95k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $180k → 15%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.

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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$40M · 44 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
21

Total granted

$40M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+21%

Still filing today

73%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $810k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +41% · 31% of their budget
  • UO
    University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +11%
  • TH
    THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • CV
    COMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -15%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +21%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
    2× · 2019–2021 · $366k

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
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
2
The Louisville Urban League Inc

As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.

Human Services
3
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
Family Health Center of Boone County

To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.

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6
Kentucky Coalition Inc

To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.

Public Benefit
7
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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8
Greater Louisville Sports Commission Inc

To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.

Recreation & Sports
9
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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10
Endeavor Louisville Inc

Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…

International
11
Jewish Community Center

The st. louis jewish community center enriches lives, builds community, promotes inclusivity and creates meaningful jewish experiences.

Human Services
12
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Inc

Addressing the unmet health needs of kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity. the foundation makes grants, conducts campaigns, supports…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bunbury Repertory Theatre Company. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr16%11%5–10yr17%23%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr14%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr17%6%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr15%14%35–55yr14%72%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/74
the rest of the field
14%
606/4,205

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

57 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. 57 of the 74 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
39/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC — $21,942,986 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE CORPORATE DEPOSITORY INC — $947,500 · Philanthropy+3 more — $758,136 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $19,776,066 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION I…University of Kentucky Research Foundation — $1,931,119 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research Found…+2 more — $432,940 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC — $3,351,015 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAM…THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC — $1,250,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME O…YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC — $594,889 · Human ServicesYOUNG ADUL…2NOT1 FATHERHOOD & FAMILIES — $340,000 · Human ServicesFATHER MALONEY'S BOY'S HAVEN INC — $300,000 · Human Services+6 more — $680,000 · Human Services+6 moreTHE TEMPLE CONGREGATION ADATH ISREAL B RITH SHOLOM INC — $1,194,025 · OtherTHE TEMPLE CONGREG…CONGREGATION ADATH JESHURUN — $858,785 · OtherCONGREGATION ADATH…KENESETH ISRAEL — $483,700 · OtherPARK DUVALLE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $432,480 · OtherTHE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC — $391,000 · OtherMARYHURST INC — $616,175 · OtherMARYHURST INCKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC — $650,000 · OtherKENTUCKY YOUTH ADV…GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC — $500,000 · OtherThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc — $432,750 · Other+34 more — $5,535,304 · Other+34 moreCOMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementTHE GREATER LOUISVILLE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC — $410,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED — $160,000 · Community ImprovementPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $550,000 · HealthSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC — $500,000 · HealthKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC — $150,000 · HealthNAMI LOUISVILLE INC — $136,000 · HealthFamily Community Clinic Inc — $100,000 · Health+1 more — $45,000 · HealthLOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE SPORTS AND LEARNING COMPLEX INC — $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $348,715 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$23,648,622Education$22,140,125Human Services$6,515,904Other$11,094,219Community Improvement$1,570,000Health$1,481,000Recreation & Sports$1,348,715

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC — $21,942,986 over 6y, 39% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $19,776,066 over 6y, 17% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC — $3,351,015 over 6y, 31% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $1,931,119 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC — $1,250,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE SPORTS AND LEARNING COMPLEX INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE CORPORATE DEPOSITORY INC — $947,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC — $650,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetMARYHURST INC — $616,175 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC — $594,889 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $550,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC — $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc — $432,750 over 4y, 18% of budgetPARK DUVALLE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $432,480 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE GREATER LOUISVILLE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC — $410,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC — $391,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetSWEET EVENING BREEZE INC — $350,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $348,715 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $345,800 over 4y, 36% of budget2NOT1 FATHERHOOD & FAMILIES — $340,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetTHE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $333,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $312,336 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE — $302,940 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFATHER MALONEY'S BOY'S HAVEN INC — $300,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC — $300,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $260,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budget300 FOR 300 — $250,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC — $244,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetISAAC W BERNHEIM FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET — $200,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $180,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetONETABLE INC — $160,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED — $160,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetEMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT — $155,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC — $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWELLSPRING INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNAMI LOUISVILLE INC — $136,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE MITZVAH FUND INC — $134,000 over 4y, 63% of budgetKENTUCKY NONPROFIT NETWORK INC — $130,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetPEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Community Clinic Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWHITNEY STRONG INC — $85,200 over 1y, 25% of budgetOPTION TO SUCCESS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 12% 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.

The Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…James Graham Brown Fo…Kosair Charities Comm…Snowy Owl Foundation …The Community Foundat…Metro United Way IncCralle Foundation IncLG&E and Ku Foundatio…Republic Bank Foundat…
The Gheens Foundation IncKY72.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report 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 74 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.

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