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Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools Inc

Prizmah: center for jewish day schools is the network for jewish day schools and yeshivas in north america.

$2.1M
Granted FY2021
40
Grants FY2021
17
States reached
$289k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Atlanta Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools Inc named its own grantees at scale: 40 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
6
’18
11
’19
17
’20
40
’21
4
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of PRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC’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.

02FY2021 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $246k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $289k
$50,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UJA GR TORONTO$288,782
YESHIVA OF FLATBUSH$100,000
KESHER LD INC$70,000
HARKHAM HILLEL HEBREW ACADEMY$70,000
TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY$70,000
GIDEON HAUSNER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$70,000
BEN PORAT YOSEF$70,000
YAVNEH DAY SCHOOL$70,000
COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL$70,000
FUCHS MIZRACHI$70,000
HILLEL SCHOOL OF TAMPA INC$54,560
JDS OF LEHIGH VALLEY$50,000
RAYMOND & RUTH PERELMAN JDS$50,000
BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY OF CT INC$50,000
CHABAD HEBREW ACADEMY$50,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–20, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $7k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF JACKSONVILLE: $7k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $7k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$454k · 10 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
24

Total granted

$454k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+65%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’24
EducationReligionPhilanthropyInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PD
    POLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $66k · revenue +2%
  • RA
    RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +56%
  • SM
    SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2021 · $23k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • FH
    FARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL-YESHIVAL AKIVA
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • RM
    Robert M Beren Academygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +55%
  • JM
    JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +28%

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.

1
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
2
Denver Jewish Day School

To ensure a jewish future by challenging minds and nurturing souls with a focus on academic excellence and jewish learning.

Education
3
Commission for Jewish Education of Greater Youngstown

The mission of the commission for jewish education is to build a strong foundation of quality jewish education for all jews in our regional community; to educate the community in the history, language, tradition and literature of the…

Religion
4
Rabbi David L Silver Yeshiva Academy

To provide education in general and judiac studies

Education
5
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…

Education
6
Jewish Parent Cooperative School Inc

Jcs is a parent participation elementary school, collaboratively governed by parents and teachers designed to foster a lifelong love of learning and meaningful connection to hashem.

Education
7
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

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8
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
9
Maimonides Jewish Day School

The purpose of the Organization is to provide the highest quality Judaic and Secular education to a diverse community of Jewish children. We synsthesize traditional Jewish learning with progressive education theory.

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10
Beit Rabban Day School

Beit rabban's mission is to nurture our children to be critical and creative thinkers, responsible world citizens, deeply fluent in jewish texts, hebrew language, the humanities and the sciences, respectful of a multiplicity of views, and…

Education
11
Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle

Jds is committed to providing an innovative academic program through a rigorous integrated, inquiry-based curriculum with general & judaic studies, empowering children to grow into capable, wise, and compassionate upstanders.

Education
12
Yeshivat Kadimah High School

To instill in its students a personal love for and commitment tohashem, the study and practice of torah, halacha, and jewish values asa way of life, and a love for the state of israel and the jewishpeople.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Val and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Uhn 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 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/80
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,485

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.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 80 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
52/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH — $200,000 · OtherYESHIVAH OF FLATBUSHFARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL-YESHIVAL AKIVA — $100,000 · OtherFARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL-YESHIVAL AKIVARobert M Beren Academy — $100,000 · OtherRobert M Beren AcademyJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY — $100,000 · OtherJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMYAKIBA-SCHECHTER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $75,000 · OtherMAIMONIDES SCHOOL — $75,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherTORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY — $70,000 · OtherFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS — $70,000 · OtherHILLEL HEBREW ACADEMY — $70,000 · OtherRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $63,000 · Other+21 more — $593,817 · Other+21 moreAKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY — $100,000 · EducationAKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMYKadima Hebrew Academy — $75,000 · EducationKadima Hebrew AcademyKESHER LD INC KESHER — $70,000 · EducationKESHER LD INC KESHERYavneh Day School — $70,000 · EducationYavneh Day SchoolGIDEON HAUSNER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $70,000 · EducationGIDEON HAUSNER JEWISH DAY SCHOOLBEN PORAT YOSEF INC — $70,000 · EducationBEN PORAT YOSEF INCPOLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $66,000 · EducationPOLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NE…HILLEL SCHOOL OF TAMPA INC — $54,560 · EducationILAN RAMON DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · EducationJEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE LEHIGH VAL — $50,000 · EducationGERRARD BERMAN DAY SCHOOL SOLOMON SCHECHTER OF NORTH JERSEY — $50,000 · EducationOrot — $50,000 · EducationDENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH — $50,000 · EducationSONIA & MAX SILVERSTEIN HEBREW ACADEMY — $48,000 · Education+16 more — $242,100 · Education+16 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO INC — $288,782 · InternationalAMERICAN …MAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC — $75,000 · ReligionMELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY — $50,000 · ReligionADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY TRUST FUND — $50,000 · ReligionBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC — $47,176 · ReligionGreater Miami Hebrew Academy — $29,280 · ReligionJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $75,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $22,101 · PhilanthropyFederation CJA — $21,950 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $21,563 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $13,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC — $11,292 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of St Louis — $6,455 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UHN INC — $29,734 · HealthJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG — $19,500 · Human ServicesTHE LJD JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $6,500 · Human Services
Other$1,586,817Education$1,165,660International$288,782Religion$251,456Philanthropy$176,361Health$29,734Human Services$26,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO INC — $288,782 over 1y, 42% of budgetRobert M Beren Academy — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKadima Hebrew Academy — $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $70,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKESHER LD INC KESHER — $70,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYavneh Day School — $70,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGIDEON HAUSNER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $70,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBEN PORAT YOSEF INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY — $70,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS — $70,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $66,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $63,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL SCHOOL OF TAMPA INC — $54,560 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN JEWISH ACADEMY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetILAN RAMON DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAKIVA SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE LEHIGH VAL — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGERRARD BERMAN DAY SCHOOL SOLOMON SCHECHTER OF NORTH JERSEY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE LERNER JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSONIA & MAX SILVERSTEIN HEBREW ACADEMY — $48,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC — $47,176 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSolomon Schechter School of Manhattan — $42,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SOLOMON SCHECHTER SCHOOL OF QUEENS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Miami Hebrew Academy — $29,280 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL — $23,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $22,101 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $21,563 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORAH DAY SCHOOL OF ATLANTA — $21,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSHEFA SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG — $19,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $18,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGesher School Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC — $11,767 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC — $11,292 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALEF BET MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EPSTEIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $8,700 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $8,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 Communal FundCenter for Initiative…Jewish Federation of …Rabbi Isaac Elchanan …Our Jewish Children I…Board of Jewish Educa…The Jewish Federation…The Harold Grinspoon …FjcUnited Jewish Appeal-…Caroline & Joseph S G…Mayberg Foundation Inc
Jewish Communal FundNY34.9× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary · Our Jewish Children Inc · Board of Jewish Education Inc · The Jewish Federations of North America Inc · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Fjc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · Mayberg Foundation Inc

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 Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy — 2% of income from government
  • Hillel School of Tampa Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Day School Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Torah Academy of Bergen County — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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