· Private foundation
National Center to Encourage Judaism
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of NATIONAL CENTER TO ENCOURAGE JUDAISM’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $297k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $62,900 |
| VARIOUS SYNAGOGUES | $45,248 |
| SUTTON PLACE SYNAGOGUE NYC | $36,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MISHKAN CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| KENESETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $16,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| FINCHLEY PROGRESSIVE SYNAGOGUE | $13,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HEBREW COLLEGE | $6,200 |
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 (FY19–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of National Center to Encourage Judaism’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 22 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- PKProject Kesher5× · 2019–2023 · $41k · revenue +193%
- AAALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal3× · 2022–2024 · $24k · revenue +44%
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- FJFEDERATION JEWISH MENS CLUBSone grant, 2017 · $47k
- JDJDC(JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMM)one grant, 2018 · $42k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
Our vision is to develop ethical, impactful Jewish young adult leaders to ensure a vibrant Jewish community and make the world a better place. Our mission is to empower and engage Jewish young adults through leadership development and…
Founded in 2017, the Jewish Center for Justice (JCJ) is a distinguished social justice, education, and leadership development platform that meets each individual where they are in their journey to inspire change. JCJ's mission is to…
KU Hillel's mission is to connect Jewish students to each other and to their Judaism, to inspire and equip the next generation of Jewish leaders, and to build a thriving Jewish community on campus.
Hillel at Miami University, the center of Jewish life on campus, seeks to engage, connect, and empower students to explore their Jewish identity creating a vibrant Jewish community and inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders.
The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…
To further French Jewish Culture, help integration of American in France and French in USA concerning Jewish Culture
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Liumi offers spiritual guidance,inspiration and education around jewish life,including joyful shabbat and holiday celebrations, life cycle events and more
To enrich the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judaism Your Way and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Discovery Institute. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 132 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE ↗
- Who funds Project Kesher ↗
- Who funds ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation Of Greater Buffalo Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
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: Covenant Foundation · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Upstart Bay Area · Lasko Family Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 National Center to Encourage Judaism 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.