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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.
$2.5M
Granted FY2022
18
Grants
5
Communities
$845k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
federationsexperienceseducationstudentselderlybuildingaround
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 18 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $696k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
- JEWISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH AMERICA$844,529
- MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$297,440
- MARGOLIN HEWBREW ACADEMY$166,526
- MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME$108,500
- JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL$105,000
- BORNBLUM JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL$103,216
- JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$87,953
- JDC (CELEB)$75,000
- KOLLEL TORAH MITZION$50,000
- PLOUGH TOWERS$41,589
- B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION$40,000
- TEMPLE ISRAEL$28,600
- WUPJTHE JEWISH PEOPLE EDUC CTR$23,000
- JEWISH CHILDRENS REGION SERVICES$15,000
- NCSY NATION OFFICE$15,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.5M · 17 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 15 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
10
Total granted
$9.5M
$583k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+7%
+33%
Still filing today
24%
10%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther
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
- JFJEWISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH AMERICA4× · 2018–2021 · $4.1M
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES4× · 2018–2021 · $1.5M
- MJMEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER3× · 2019–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +7%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $305k
- JJDCone grant, 2021 · $68k
- MFMJCCCENTER FOR JEWISH LIVING & LEAone grant, 2018 · $62k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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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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
Jewish Federation of Nashville and
To serve as the central voluntary communal organization of the jewish community
Philanthropy
3
Jewish National Fund
Jewish National Fund gives all generations of Jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of Israel and its people.
International
4
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Makes the diversity of jewish experience relevant through art & programs that challenge & inspire.
Arts & Culture
5
Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City
To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world
Philanthropy
6
Jewish Senior Life
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
Religion
7
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
8
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in
Youth Development
9
Jewish Federation of St Louis
Preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel, and around the world.
Philanthropy
10
Jewish Board of Family & Children's
For 150 years, the jewish board of family and children's services, inc. ("the jewish board") has been helping new yorkers realize their potential and live as independently as possible. we promote resilience and recovery by addressing all…
Human Services
11
Kollel Ner Naftali
Kollel Ner Naftalis purpose is to address, educate and coordinate the facilitation of jewish related programs in an effort to further the religious practice of judaism.
Religion
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Agency for Israel - North and the most unlike its peers is Facing History and Ourselves Inc. 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 64 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.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
12%
7,287/60,825
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.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$10,097,218Philanthropy$844,529Religion$335,000Youth Development$168,572Health$108,500International$105,000Human Services$102,953
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 MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL TORAH MITZION ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JDC (CELEB) ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL TORAH MITZION ↗
- Who funds PLOUGH TOWERS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDRENS REGION SERVICES ↗
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.
Jewish Foundation of MemphisTN22.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MEMPHIS FRIENDS OF ISRAEL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 261463102 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MEMPHIS FRIENDS OF ISRAEL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 79% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Memphis Jewish Federation?
Find your warmest path to Memphis Jewish Federation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines