· Private foundation
National Center to Encourage Judaism
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of National Center to Encourage Judaism’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Center to Encourage Judaism funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Center to Encourage Judaism. Bigger dots raise more.
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