· Public charity
Memphis Jewish Federation
The federation serves as a central fundraising and allocation agency in the memphis metropolitan area for the benefit of jewish activities and promotes harmony, understanding and good relations among the members of the jewish community and the larger communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $2,481,840 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,625,205 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $143,365 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $386k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $935k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JFNA JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA FAIR SHARE (JFNA) | $869,555 |
| MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $285,000 |
| MARGOLINHEBREW ACADEMYFEINSTONE YESHIVA OF THE SOUTH | $219,250 |
| SENIOR MEALS PROGRAM | $160,675 |
| BORNBLUM JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $135,298 |
| MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME | $135,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $111,664 |
| JDC SUPPORT FOR WAR-TORN MUNICIPALITIES | $63,500 |
| JAFI - MICHINAT OR YEHUDA | $55,000 |
| JAFI - NATIVE JEWISH ZIONIST IDENTITY PROGRAM | $55,000 |
| PLOUGH TOWERS ACTIVITY PROGRAM | $45,145 |
| MHA - KOLLEL TORAH MITZION OF MEMPHIS | $40,000 |
| MJCC - CENTER FOR JEWISH LIVING & LEARNING | $40,000 |
| BBYO | $36,667 |
| JEWISH EDUCATION FUNDING - SUMMER CAMPS | $31,950 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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
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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MJMEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +25%
- BBB'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB)8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +25%
- BBB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION7× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue +1%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUISone grant, 2022 · $88k · revenue +10%
- CGCALEB GLOBALone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council and the most unlike its peers is The Memphis Friends of Israel. 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 56 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB) ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL TORAH MITZION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH HOUSING DEVELOPMENT- PLOUGH TOWERS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CALEB GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEMPHIS FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism ↗
- Who funds PLOUGH TOWERS FUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Belz Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Memphis Jewish Federation 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.
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.