· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $262k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $234k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOAN DACHS BAIS YAAKOV HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $802,161 |
| CHEDER LUBAVITCH HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $337,888 |
| ARIE CROWN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $267,689 |
| YESHIVA OHR BORUCHTHE VEITZNER CHEDER | $263,082 |
| HILLEL TORAH NORTH SUBURBAN DAY SCHOOL | $122,974 |
| BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL OF CHICAGO | $110,822 |
| TORAH ACADEMY OF BUFFALO GROVE | $38,630 |
| TELSHE HIGH SCHOOL | $34,339 |
| LUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL | $31,218 |
| AKIBA-SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $27,825 |
| YESHIVA KESSER YONAH (MEOR HATORAH) | $22,633 |
| NETIVOT PATHWAYS ACADEMY | $19,511 |
| HANNA SACKS BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL | $18,731 |
| SHAAREI CHINUCH DAY SCHOOL | $15,582 |
| FASMAN YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL | $14,828 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $12k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JDJOAN DACHS BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-YESHIVAS TIFERES TZVI INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M
- ACARIE CROWN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M
- CLCHEDER LUBAVITCH HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $855k
Funded once
- KKESHETgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +53%
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.
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.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
To provide academic excellence in both limudei kodesh and secular studies.
YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…
To provide education in general and judiac studies
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
School for providing jewish education
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
Educational-operation of private girls' high school
To conduct and maintain a religious school in accordance with the tenets, traditions and precepts of the orthodox jewish faith.
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
The school provides instructions and secular and religious education for students grade k through 8th.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BUFFALO GROVE ↗
- Who funds DR CHAIM CEMBER SHAAREI CHINUCH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS KESSER YONAH ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS ACADEMY FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA GEDOLA OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds IDA CROWN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kehillah Jewish Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kehillah Jewish Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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