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Leading Edge Alliance Inc

Leading edge unites jewish nonprofits in pursuit of a shared standard of excellence in talent, culture, and leadership, working with organizations and their people to deliver greater impact.

$836k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$73,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADAMAH INC$100,000
THE JEWISH EDUCATION PROJECT$94,700
THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NA$89,100
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL$80,000
MECHON HADAR$79,300
70 FACES MEDIA$73,000
SEFARIA$71,600
HONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC$68,800
MOVING TRADITIONS$64,600
THE INS FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDU$60,400
JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT$54,100
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MOVING TRADITIONS: $65k → 7%JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT: $54k → 10%70 FACES MEDIA: $73k → 17%HONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $69k → 14%ADAMAH INC: $100k → 11%THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NA: $89k → 17%MECHON HADAR: $79k → 17%SEFARIA: $72k → 17%THE JEWISH EDUCATION PROJECT: $95k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL: $80k → 17%THE INS FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDU: $60k → 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 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
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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2
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
3
Young Judaea Global Inc

Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.

Education
4
Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion
5
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
6
Jewish Educational Media

Preserve and curate educational and historical video, audio and photography, sharing these archival treasures through educational programming. our most prominent subject is the rebbe, rabbi menachem m. schneerson, of righteous memory

Religion
7
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
8
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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9
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
10
Jewish Childrens Museum

To further jewish historical education among youths

Arts & Culture
11
Torah Ore Seminary

To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.

Education
12
The Jewish Wisdom Foundation

To create a dynamic community of Jews, nourished by mutual respect and honest, open dialogue, challenging stereotypes, invigorating curiosity, plumbing the depths of their great heritage and empowering a revolution in Jewish identity. In…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Board of Jewish Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Jewish Studio Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADAMAH INC: $100,000 · ReligionADAMAH INCBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $94,700 · ReligionBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INCHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $68,800 · ReligionHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INCMOVING TRADITIONS: $64,600 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONSTHE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT: $54,100 · ReligionTHE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECTTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $89,100 · InternationalTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INS…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $80,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUN…SEFARIA INC: $71,600 · EducationSEFARIA INCM2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION: $60,400 · EducationM2 THE INSTITUTE …MECHON HADAR: $79,300 · OtherMECHON HAD…70 FACES MEDIA INC: $73,000 · Arts & Culture70 FACES …
Religion$382,200International$169,100Education$132,000Other$79,300Arts & Culture$73,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $94,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC: $73,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSEFARIA INC: $71,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $68,800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $64,600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetM2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION: $60,400 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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