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Jewish Silicon Valley

The mission of JEWISH SILICON VALLEY is to harness the power of community to improve lives, build bridges of understanding and strengthen the jewish people here, in israel, and around the world.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$306k
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 FY2021–2025.

Religion$1.5MHuman Services$1.5MEducation$639kCommunity Improvement$474kPhilanthropy$425kYouth Development$133kHealth$66kInternational$59kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 35 grants below total $1,131,494 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,440,288 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $308,794 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $339k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $423k
  • $250k+1 grant · $306k
$11,550
Median grant
6
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$306,358
JEWISH SILICON VALLEY$137,350
HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY$90,628
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$67,902
YAVNEH DAY SCHOOL$66,790
JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA$60,000
CONGREGATION SINAI OF SAN JOSE$36,278
J LEADERS$30,000
SHALOM BAYIT$26,250
INTERNATIONAL DX ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
CONGREGATION BETH DAVID$21,770
CONGREGATION SHIR HADASH$20,770
CHABAD OF SANTA CLARA$20,000
SANTA CRUZ HILLEL$18,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$17,572
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 (FY21–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $60k → 17%KAVOD-ENSURING DIGNITY FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS: $44k → 12%SHALOM BAYIT: $26k → 10%JCC ASSOCIATION: $60k → 17%SHALOM BAYIT A PROJECT OF TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $60k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $652k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $306k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $151k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $147k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $120k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $29k → 8%ADDISON-PENZAK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%LIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INC: $6k → 8%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 27 repeat orgs$390k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
11

Total granted

$4.1M
$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

78%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureInternationalOther

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 SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +446%
  • HO
    HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $327k · revenue +46%
  • JL
    J LEADERS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • LF
    Levy Family Campus
    one grant, 2021 · $106k · revenue -71%
  • K
    KAVODgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue +70%
  • CO
    CHABAD OF S JOSE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

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
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
2
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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3
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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4
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
5
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
6
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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8
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

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9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
11
Hillel 818

Hillel 818 is the campus hub for all things Jewish at Cal State Northridge, Pierce College, LA Valley College, and throughout the San Fernando Valley. We empower our 6,000+ Jewish students to forge lasting friendships, grow as leaders,…

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12
The Pardes Jewish Day School Inc

The pardes jewish day school prepares students to become outstanding members of society through a rigorous secular and judaic education, a nurturing community, and a foundation in reform judaism that welcomes all jewish traditions.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repair the World and the most unlike its peers is Shalom Bayit Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr12%31%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr12%40%35–55yr12%15%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
14,614/109,043

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

41 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. 41 of the 55 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
19/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE EMANU-EL — $523,894 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELJEWISH SILICON VALLEY — $430,571 · OtherJEWISH SILICON VALLEYHILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $327,484 · OtherHILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INCCHABAD S CLARA — $109,000 · OtherCHABAD S CLARACONGREGATION SINAI OF SAN JOSE — $89,760 · OtherCONGREGATION SHIR HADASH — $74,471 · Other+21 more — $365,286 · Other+21 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $1,376,915 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLE…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA — $180,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF…+5 more — $129,253 · Human Services+5 moreYavneh Day School — $332,927 · EducationYavneh Day Scho…City Learners Inc dba My City School — $83,900 · EducationCity Learners I…South Peninsula Hebrew Day School — $54,180 · EducationSouth Peninsula…FRIENDS OF EDUCARE CALIFORNIA AT SILICON VALLEY — $50,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF EDUC…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationThe Burkard School — $28,800 · Education+7 more — $109,300 · Education+7 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $266,582 · PhilanthropyLevy Family Campus — $106,347 · Philanthropy+1 more — $11,600 · PhilanthropyJ LEADERS — $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $48,180 · Youth DevelopmentREPAIR THE WORLD — $43,875 · Community ImprovementSILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL — $21,550 · Arts & CultureMusic By Heart — $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,920,466Human Services$1,686,168Education$689,107Philanthropy$384,529Youth Development$133,180Community Improvement$43,875Arts & Culture$41,550

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $1,376,915 over 5y, 15% of budgetYavneh Day School — $332,927 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $327,484 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $266,582 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA — $180,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLevy Family Campus — $106,347 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJ LEADERS — $85,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetCity Learners Inc dba My City School — $83,900 over 3y, 17% of budgetSouth Peninsula Hebrew Day School — $54,180 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF EDUCARE CALIFORNIA AT SILICON VALLEY — $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $48,180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Cruz Hillel Foundation — $44,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD — $43,875 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKAVOD — $43,575 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH SILICON VALLEY — $33,803 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Burkard School — $28,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $26,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONETABLE INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $22,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL — $21,550 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $20,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMusic By Heart — $20,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNLI USA INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $11,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of New York — $11,371 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS & MINDS ACTIVITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $8,960 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRimon Club Z DBA Club Z — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INC — $5,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-PENINSULA EDUCATION CENTER INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Levy Family CampusSilicon Valley Commun…Arcadia FoundationRuth Reinhard Fletche…Taube Foundation for …The Shimon Ben Joseph…Koret FoundationHopewell FundMorgan Stanley Global…Chai House IncMeyer Milton Char Tuw…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA29× affinity13 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 · Levy Family Campus · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Arcadia Foundation · Ruth Reinhard Fletcher Charitable Foundation · Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Koret Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Chai House Inc · Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main

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 Silicon Valley 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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