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Kehillah Jewish Education Fund

Make an authentic jewish education, coupled with an excellent secular education, available and affordable to all jewish families in the chicagoland community.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$27,825
Largest grant, FY2024
$802,161
Organizations funded a year
7 to 11
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$341k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Kehillah Jewish Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$2.2M55%
FY20239$966k0%
FY202210$980k0%
FY20218$683k0%
FY202011$1.3M36%
FY20197$768kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.3MReligion$1.6MHuman Services$12k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary School-Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Inc$2,605,1296n/a
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School$1,298,2496n/a
Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School Inc$854,9966n/a
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School$713,4066n/a
Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel-Veitzener Cheder Inc$708,5646n/a
Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School$204,6376n/a
Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago$110,8221n/a
Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago$77,7436n/a
Torah Academy of Buffalo Grove$70,63248%
Dr Chaim Cember Shaarei Chinuch Day School$52,87054%
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All grantees of Kehillah Jewish Education Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary School-Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Inc$2,605,1296n/a
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School$1,298,2496n/a
Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School Inc$854,9966n/a
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School$713,4066n/a
Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel-Veitzener Cheder Inc$708,5646n/a
Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School$204,6376n/a
Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago$110,8221n/a
Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago$77,7436n/a
Torah Academy of Buffalo Grove$70,63248%
Dr Chaim Cember Shaarei Chinuch Day School$52,87054%
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-Chicago$34,3391n/a
Lubavitch Girls High School Inc$31,2181n/a
Yeshivas Kesser Yonah$22,63310%
Pathways Academy for Special Education$19,51112%
Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago$18,7311n/a
Hebrew Theological College$14,8281n/a
Yeshiva Gedola of the Midwest$14,04810%
Ida Crown Endowment Foundation$12,48714%
Jewish Child and Family Services$11,94320%
Ner Naftali Inc$11,7071n/a
Mesivta Shaarei Adirim$9,3651n/a
Keshet$5,26910%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kehillah Jewish Education Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTorah Academy of Buffalo Grove: $70,632 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetDr Chaim Cember Shaarei Chinuch Day School: $52,870 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetYeshivas Kesser Yonah: $22,633 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPathways Academy for Special Education: $19,511 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYeshiva Gedola of the Midwest: $14,048 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIda Crown Endowment Foundation: $12,487 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $11,943 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKeshet: $5,269 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL43.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Walder Foundation · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Chicago Chesed Fund · The Pharmore Drugs Charitable Foundation · Big Shoulders Fund · Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Lakewood Cheder School Inc · Yeshivas Kesser Yonah

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.

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How do I get to Kehillah Jewish Education Fund?

Find your warmest path to Kehillah Jewish Education Fund 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.

About Kehillah Jewish Education Fund

How much does Kehillah Jewish Education Fund give?
Kehillah Jewish Education Fund reported 20 grants totaling $2,186,648 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Kehillah Jewish Education Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (77%), Religion (23%), Human Services (0%).
Who are Kehillah Jewish Education Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary School-Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Inc ($2.6M), Arie Crown Hebrew Day School ($1.3M), Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School Inc ($855k).
Does Kehillah Jewish Education Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kehillah Jewish Education Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation, Bitton Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Kehillah Jewish Education Fund based?
Kehillah Jewish Education Fund is based in IL.

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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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