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Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S.

$457k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2023–2025.

Religion$585kPhilanthropy$404kArts & Culture$301kCivil Rights$100kCommunity Improvement$93kHuman Services$74kEducation$58kYouth Development$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $328k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
$30,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Social Good Fund$115,000
Ammud The JOC Torah Academy I$40,000
TZEDEK AMERICA$40,000
THE BRAID$35,000
Bd of Regents of Univ Wisc$32,643
JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE$30,000
UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM$30,000
MOVING TRADITIONS$30,000
BELOVED BUILDERS$25,230
ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Ren$25,000
Crown Heights Jewish Comm$20,000
Congregation Mishkan Israel$10,000
Women Make Movies WMM$10,000
JUDAISM ALIVE$8,425
Shaarei Center for Jewish Lea$6,146
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%BELOVED BUILDERS: $25k → 12%Crown Heights Jewish Comm: $20k → 20%BELOVED BUILDERS: $15k → 12%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
GA

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$710k · 12 repeat orgs$697k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
30

Total granted

$710k
$613k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
0%

Still filing today

92%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • AA
    ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal
    3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +5%
  • JW
    JEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +34%
  • TA
    TZEDEK AMERICA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $55k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TF
    The Forward Association Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -23%
  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue -19%
  • KT
    KOL TIKVAH
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

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
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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2
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
3
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
4
Jewish Center for Justice

Founded in 2017, the Jewish Center for Justice (JCJ) is a distinguished social justice, education, and leadership development platform that meets each individual where they are in their journey to inspire change. JCJ's mission is to…

Human Services
5
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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6
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
7
J Leaders

Our vision is to develop ethical, impactful Jewish young adult leaders to ensure a vibrant Jewish community and make the world a better place. Our mission is to empower and engage Jewish young adults through leadership development and…

Youth Development
8
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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9
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Community (JFREJ Community) is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to building a vibrant Jewish left working for social justice in New York City. JFREJ Community grows the New York Jewish Left by…

Civil Rights
10
Jewish Voters Unite Inc

The jewish voters unite's mission is to educate and mobilize jewish communities to participate in every election and make their voices heard at the polls.

Religion
11
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
12
Jewish Community Relations Bureau Inc

JCRB/AJC is the Jewish community advocate for combating antisemitism and pursuing justice.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tzedek America. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%18%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%45%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,514

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 51 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
19/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $311,400 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INCAMMUD THE JOC TORAH ACADEMY INC — $144,860 · EducationAMMUD THE JOC TORAH ACADEMY IN…+1 more — $8,425 · EducationALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal — $125,000 · ReligionALEPH Alliance for Jewish …TZEDEK AMERICA — $55,000 · ReligionTZEDEK AMERICAJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE — $45,000 · ReligionJEWISH LEARNING VENTUREJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC — $42,000 · ReligionJOIN FOR JUSTICE INCMOVING TRADITIONS — $40,000 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONSREBOOT INC — $36,600 · ReligionREBOOT INCURI L'TZEDEK INC — $23,000 · ReligionURI L'TZEDEK INCSVARA — $15,000 · Religion+3 more — $26,146 · Religion+3 moreThe Forward Association Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureThe Forward Associat…JEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE — $60,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH WOMEN'S THEAT…CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR JEWISH CU…PLUMA POETICA DEL ARTE INC — $24,850 · Arts & CulturePLUMA POETICA DEL AR…PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC — $22,750 · Arts & CulturePAINTED BRIDE ART CE…Mosaic Visions — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMosaic VisionsTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S A…JEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCUSTOM AND CRAFT JEWISH RITUALS INC DBA RECUSTOM HAGGADOTCOM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $13,750 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $52,643 · OtherUniversity of Wiscons…KOL TIKVAH — $50,000 · OtherKOL TIKVAHUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM — $30,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDA…HINENU THE BALTIMORE JUSTICE SHTIEBL — $20,000 · OtherHINENU THE BALTIMORE …EMBRACE HARLEM — $15,000 · OtherATLANTA JEWS OF COLOR COUNCIL — $14,500 · OtherA Sisters Village INC — $14,100 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP — $35,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY …FJC — $20,000 · OtherFJC+9 more — $88,000 · Other+9 moreTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $65,000 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $33,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $15,000 · PhilanthropyBELOVED BUILDERS INC — $40,230 · Human ServicesCROWN HEIGHTS JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesInstitute for Jewish & Community Research DBA Bechol Lashon — $37,550 · Social Science
Education$464,685Religion$407,746Arts & Culture$316,350Other$339,243Philanthropy$128,000Human Services$60,230Social Science$37,550

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 budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $311,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMMUD THE JOC TORAH ACADEMY INC — $144,860 over 2y, 25% of budgetALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal — $125,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE — $60,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTZEDEK AMERICA — $55,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE — $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC — $42,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBELOVED BUILDERS INC — $40,230 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetInstitute for Jewish & Community Research DBA Bechol Lashon — $37,550 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetREBOOT INC — $36,600 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $33,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY — $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPLUMA POETICA DEL ARTE INC — $24,850 over 1y, 85% of budgetURI L'TZEDEK INC — $23,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC — $22,750 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCROWN HEIGHTS JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFJC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSVARA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUSTOM AND CRAFT JEWISH RITUALS INC DBA RECUSTOM HAGGADOTCOM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $13,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEFESH LA — $13,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKESHET INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJewish Film Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJumpstart Labs Inc DBA Jewish JUMPSTART JSLABS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO — $8,425 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $6,500 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.

The Shimon Ben Joseph…United Jewish Appeal-…Jewish Community Fede…Covenant FoundationTides CenterJewish Community Foun…Proteus Fund IncUpstart Bay AreaJewish Federation Cou…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Federation of …Charles and Lynn Schu…
The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph FoundationCA34.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Covenant Foundation · Tides Center · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Proteus Fund Inc · Upstart Bay Area · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family 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 Jews of Color Initiative 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 · 50%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report 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.

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How do I get to Jews of Color Initiative?

Find your warmest path to Jews of Color Initiative through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 51 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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