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National Center to Encourage Judaism
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $426k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations National Center to Encourage Judaism funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $426k | 59% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $368k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $247k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $267k | 49% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $198k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $178k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $225k | 62% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $186k | 81% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute of Southern Jewish Life | $105,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Project Kesher | $40,868 | 5 | 1% |
| Mishkan Chicago | $35,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Sha Ar Zahav | $33,600 | 4 | n/a |
| ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal | $23,600 | 3 | 1% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $15,454 | 2 | 0% |
| Society for Humanistic Judaism | $12,100 | 2 | 1% |
| American Jewish University | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Learning Venture | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Congregation Bnai Amoona | $9,600 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 35 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute of Southern Jewish Life | $105,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Project Kesher | $40,868 | 5 | 1% |
| Mishkan Chicago | $35,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Sha Ar Zahav | $33,600 | 4 | n/a |
| ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal | $23,600 | 3 | 1% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $15,454 | 2 | 0% |
| Society for Humanistic Judaism | $12,100 | 2 | 1% |
| American Jewish University | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Learning Venture | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Congregation Bnai Amoona | $9,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple B Nai Torah | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Israel | $7,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hebrew College | $6,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Ohavi Zedek Synagogue | $6,150 | 3 | n/a |
| Judaism Your Way | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Memphis Jewish Community Center | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Enrichment Center | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine | $5,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Ner Tamid | $4,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Folkshuln of Philadelphia Inc | $4,100 | 3 | 1% |
| Bethesda Jewish Congregation | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Hatikvah Inc | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Interfaithfamilycom Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center | $2,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Makom Community | $2,700 | 1 | 0% |
| Kitchen Slow Down Jew Up | $2,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple Sinai Las Vegas Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yourjewish | $1,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Discovery Institute | $1,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Hillel at Va Tech Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Kulanu Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Limmudboston Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Agudas Achim Congregation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Children of Israel | $750 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Ahavas Israel | $250 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 94 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget National Center to Encourage Judaism supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
Compare National Center to Encourage Judaism with peer funders
About National Center to Encourage Judaism
- How much does National Center to Encourage Judaism give?
- National Center to Encourage Judaism reported 37 grants totaling $425,748 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does National Center to Encourage Judaism fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Philanthropy (12%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
- Who are National Center to Encourage Judaism's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Institute of Southern Jewish Life ($105k), Project Kesher ($41k), Mishkan Chicago ($35k).
- Does National Center to Encourage Judaism fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does National Center to Encourage Judaism accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Center to Encourage Judaism?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Covenant Foundation, The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is National Center to Encourage Judaism based?
- National Center to Encourage Judaism is based in MD.
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