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The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc

Since 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has acted on behalf of North America's Jewish communities and others to fulfill the principle that "kol Yisrael arevim zeh l'zeh" - all Jews are responsible for one another.

$232M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$190k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.1MInternational$2.7MReligion$1.7MEducation$1.7MPhilanthropy$784kCrime & Legal$165kCommunity Improvement$150kHuman Services$94kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $498,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $232,161,608 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $231,663,108 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $364k
$30,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$858M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hebrew Union College$189,500
Moishe House$65,000
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc$55,000
Partners In Health a Nonprofit Corporation$54,000
The Shalem Foundation$30,000
World Council of Jewish Communal Service$30,000
The Arnold P Gold Foundation$30,000
Washington Institute for Near East Policy$12,500
Thomas Jefferson University$11,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc$10,000
Education Law Center$6,000
Congregation Rodeph Shalom$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Martha's Vineyard Community Service: $22k → 8%Kavod: $50k → 12%Martha's Vineyard Community Service: $6k → 8%AFYA Foundation Inc: $72k → 9%Friends of Ethiopian National Project Inc: $15k → 12%Martha's Vineyard Community Service: $6k → 8%AFYA Foundation Inc: $36k → 9%AFYA Foundation Inc: $31k → 9%TomorrowNow: $40k → 16%AFYA Foundation: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
NE
MO
MD
KS
NC
DC
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $232M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Russia and Neighboring States$165M · 71% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: saving Jewish lives · building Jewish life

Middle East and North Africa$56M · 24% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: saving Jewish lives · multifunctional · innovative social services in Israel

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$5.6M · 2% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: saving Jewish lives · building Jewish life · multifunctional

South America$3.4M · 1% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: saving Jewish lives · building Jewish life · multifunctional

Sub-Saharan Africa$942k · 0% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: saving Jewish lives · multifunctional · building Jewish life

Central America and the Caribbean$298k · 0% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: saving Jewish lives · building Jewish life · multifunctional

South Asia$188k · 0% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: saving Jewish lives · multifunctional · building Jewish life

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 28 repeat orgs$928k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
26

Total granted

$9.1M
$917k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationReligionHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MH
    MOISHE HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $872k · revenue +123%
  • CF
    CADENA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $715k · revenue +49%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    3× · 2017–2023 · $604k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • HA
    HIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -37%
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +12%
  • TI
    TECHNOSERVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +50%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
Sherit Isroel
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4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
New Israel Fund

The new israel fund (nif) helps israel live up to its founders' vision of a society that ensures complete equality to all its inhabitants. our aim is to advance liberal democracy, including freedom of speech and minority rights, and to…

International
6
Physicians for Palestine
Health
7
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
8
Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture
9
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc

The international fellowship of christian and jews is the leading non-profit building bridges between christians and jews, blessing israel and the jewish people around the world with, humanitarian care and life-saving aid.

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10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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11
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
12
Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ishmael & Isaac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 60 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc: $2,851,926 · HealthFoundation of Orthopedics and Co…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $212,709 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT C…HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION: $1,584,500 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITU…B NAI B RITH: $364,377 · OtherB NAI B RITHTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $257,239 · OtherTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATIONWORLD COUNCIL OF JEWISH COMMUNAL SERVICES INC: $210,000 · OtherWORLD COUNCIL OF JEWISH COMMUNAL SE…THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION: $140,000 · OtherHIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Other+20 more: $624,581 · Other+20 moreCADENA FOUNDATION INC: $714,642 · InternationalCADENA FOUNDATION…HIAS INC: $143,000 · InternationalHIAS INCGabriel Project Mumbai: $128,320 · InternationalGabriel Project M…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $106,500 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTIT…TECHNOSERVE INC: $79,593 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PERES INSTITUTE FOR PEACE INC: $75,000 · InternationalRAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT: $63,113 · International+10 more: $287,418 · International+10 moreMOISHE HOUSE: $872,306 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSEHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $603,548 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUN…+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $367,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $100,000 · PhilanthropyFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $90,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $52,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $35,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $148,500 · Human ServicesKAVOD: $50,000 · Human ServicesTomorrowNoworg Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $34,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesThe Shalem Foundation: $155,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$3,064,635Other$3,330,697International$1,597,586Religion$1,485,854Philanthropy$651,500Human Services$287,500Crime & Legal$155,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc: $2,851,926 over 5y, 87% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $872,306 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCADENA FOUNDATION INC: $714,642 over 3y, 11% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $603,548 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $367,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $257,239 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $212,709 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $155,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $148,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHIAS INC: $143,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGabriel Project Mumbai: $128,320 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $106,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $79,593 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAHMA WORLDWIDE AID AND DEVELOPMENT: $63,113 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Jewish & Community Research DBA Bechol Lashon: $53,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $52,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKAVOD: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $48,123 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMULTIFAITH ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $41,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTomorrowNoworg Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHAZON INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC: $35,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $34,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALEPH SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $28,753 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA: $28,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY: $19,918 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetNeve Michael Childrens Village Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAJAD VENEZUELA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNALA FOUNDATION: $7,030 over 1y, 79% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Koum Family Found…Jewish Federation of …United Jewish Appeal-…Jewish Federation of …Jewish Community Fede…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Silicon Valley Commun…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…
Jewish Communal FundNY23.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Koum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Cadena Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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