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Jjr Foundation at a glance

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Jjr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

99% of Jjr Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
4
’19
2
’20
1
’21
1
’22
2
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$8.2MHealth$273kArts & Culture$236kScience & Tech$200kEducation$13kReligion$3kCrime & Legal$1k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$10,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$1,369,598
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH$10,500
THE DUBLIN FAMILY FOUNDATIO$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WILLLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL: $2k → 12%THE FORTUNE SOCIETY: $1k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1.4M → 17%national humanities center: $40k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1.4M → 17%national humanities center: $40k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1.4M → 17%NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER: $35k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1.2M → 17%national humanities center: $25k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1.1M → 17%NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER: $25k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1.0M → 17%NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER: $25k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $607k → 17%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $200k → 17%THE DUBLIN FAMILY FOUNDATIO: $2k → 17%THE PUBLIC THEATER: $3k → 17%CONGREGATION RAMATH ORAH CHILDREN'S FUND: $1k → 17%ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $13k → 17%THE PUBLIC THEATRE: $2k → 17%carnegie hall: $39k → 17%ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $125k → 17%ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%icahn school of medicine MOUNT SINAI: $100k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH: $11k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH: $7k → 17%icahn school of medicine MOUNT SINAI: $5k → 17%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.
$463k · 4 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +66% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$463k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+66%

Still filing today

75%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER
    6× · 2017–2023 · $190k · revenue +83%
  • IH
    ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +114%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    2× · 2019–2020 · $105k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $39k · revenue +17%
  • AJ
    ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +66%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +43%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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3
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
4
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
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Sherit Isroel
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9
Ithaca College

Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.

Education
10
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
11
Yeshiva University High Schools

The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.

Education
12
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai; the most unlike its peers is The Fortune Society Inc. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $8,169,649 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDNATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER: $190,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $38,560 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,595 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $200,000 · InternationalISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $105,280 · EducationABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $13,000 · EducationMOUNT SINAI HEALTH: $17,500 · OtherTHE PUBLIC THEATRE: $2,350 · OtherTHE DUBLIN FAMILY FOUNDATIO: $2,000 · OtherWILLLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL: $2,000 · OtherCONGREGATION RAMATH ORAH CHILDREN'S FUND: $1,000 · Other
Philanthropy$8,169,649Arts & Culture$231,155International$200,000Health$151,000Education$118,280Other$24,850

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $8,169,649 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER: $190,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $105,280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $38,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,595 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jjr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jjr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    1report 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
    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 14 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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