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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…

$10M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$23MEducation$18MHealth$6.3MHuman Services$5.5MReligion$2.8MYouth Development$2.4MArts & Culture$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+7 grants · $7.3M
$125,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$337M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$1,999,236
JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE$1,831,071
JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES$1,242,500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE$1,056,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA MID-STATES$500,000
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$382,880
JEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE$250,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$230,000
THE TEMPLE$218,929
OHAVAY ZION SYNAGOGUE$200,000
FOOD LITERACY PROJECT$200,000
DARE TO CARE$200,000
ADATH JESHURUN$167,857
THE BOOK WORKS$150,000
YMCA LOUISVILLE$150,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $7.6M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPTION TO SUCCESS: $50k → 15%OPTION TO SUCCESS: $25k → 15%YMCA LOUISVILLE: $150k → 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: $150k → 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%BLUEPRINT 502: $300k → 15%YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE: $100k → 15%YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE: $100k → 15%YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE: $95k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $180k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $1.2M → 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%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 47 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
23

Total granted

$46M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+19%

Still filing today

74%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    7× · 2019–2025 · $4.6M · 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 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +28%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
    2× · 2019–2021 · $366k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville
Health
4
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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5
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
6
Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.

Public Benefit
7
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
8
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
9
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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10
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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11
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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12
The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc

To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
39/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $23,774,057 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE CORPORATE DEPOSITORY INC: $2,003,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE…+3 more: $758,136 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $21,775,302 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION …University of Kentucky Research Foundation: $1,931,119 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research Foun…+5 more: $1,220,820 · EducationTHE TEMPLE CONGREGATION ADATH ISREAL B RITH SHOLOM INC: $1,412,954 · OtherTHE TEMPLE CONGREGAT…CONGREGATION ADATH JESHURUN: $1,026,642 · OtherCONGREGATION ADATH J…THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $563,000 · OtherKENESETH ISRAEL: $560,843 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $500,000 · OtherTHE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC: $466,325 · OtherMARYHURST INC: $741,175 · OtherThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $632,750 · OtherKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $790,000 · OtherKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOC…SWEET EVENING BREEZE INC: $475,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC: $500,000 · Other+39 more: $6,230,337 · Other+39 moreJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $4,593,515 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF…YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $594,889 · Human ServicesYOUNG ADULT…the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $350,000 · Human Services2NOT1 FATHERHOOD & FAMILIES: $340,000 · Human ServicesEMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT: $305,000 · Human ServicesFATHER MALONEY'S BOY'S HAVEN INC: $300,000 · Human Services+4 more: $412,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementTHE GREATER LOUISVILLE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC: $410,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $190,000 · Community ImprovementPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $550,000 · HealthSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $500,000 · HealthKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC: $200,000 · HealthNAMI LOUISVILLE INC: $181,000 · 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$26,535,693Education$24,927,241Other$13,899,026Human Services$8,145,904Community Improvement$1,600,000Health$1,576,000Recreation & Sports$1,348,715

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $23,774,057 over 7y, 39% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $21,775,302 over 7y, 17% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $4,593,515 over 7y, 31% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE CORPORATE DEPOSITORY INC: $2,003,500 over 6y, 17% 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 budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $790,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetMARYHURST INC: $741,175 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $632,750 over 5y, 18% of budgetYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $594,889 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetTHE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $563,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $550,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSWEET EVENING BREEZE INC: $475,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetTHE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC: $466,325 over 6y, 31% 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 Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $350,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $312,336 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT: $305,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $302,940 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFATHER MALONEY'S BOY'S HAVEN INC: $300,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $260,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budget300 FOR 300: $250,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetJEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $244,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWHITNEY STRONG INC: $231,253 over 2y, 25% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISAAC W BERNHEIM FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetKENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET: $200,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $190,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetNAMI LOUISVILLE INC: $181,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $180,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetKENTUCKY NONPROFIT NETWORK INC: $180,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE MITZVAH FUND INC: $167,500 over 5y, 63% of budgetONETABLE INC: $160,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLA CASITA CENTER INC: $127,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $105,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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