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The Jerusalem Fund Inc

The organization was established to spread judaism and jewish identity by operating and supporting outreach organizations in the u.s.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Religion$8.8MHuman Services$1.0MCivil Rights$629kInternational$177kArts & Culture$13k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VAAD LEORER YESHAINIM$100,000
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 (FY18–19, $640k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HACHESHBONE: $5k → 14%AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $500k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $100k → 11%AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $35k → 20%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 8 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$4.8M
$5.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+31%

Still filing today

38%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
ReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • BA
    BETH ABA TRUST
    5× · 2019–2024 · $838k · revenue +27% · 45% of their budget
  • HF
    HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED
    3× · 2017–2019 · $629k · revenue +5%
  • AY
    AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $535k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • YA
    YESHIVAT AISH HATORAHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4.5M · revenue ×24
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFERET MOSHE BETZALEL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue +3%
  • AG
    AISH GLOBAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $390k · revenue +157%
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
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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2
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
3
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
4
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
5
American Friends of Daas Aharon Inc

To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.

Education
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
8
Friends of Meor Israel

Education and religious activities and research

Education
9
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
10
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
11
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
12
American Friends of Yeshiva High School of Kiryat Arba Inc

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc; the most unlike its peers is Amatz Initiative. 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

16 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. 16 of the 23 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVAT AISH HATORAH: $4,489,204 · EducationYESHIVAT AISH HATORAHHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $629,000 · EducationHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATEDVAAD LEORER YESHAINIM MIGDAL OR: $1,323,800 · OtherVAAD LEORER YESHAINIM MIGDAL O…YESHIVA KEREN ORAH: $815,000 · OtherYESHIVA KEREN ORAHAISH CENTER INC: $476,333 · OtherAISH CENTER INCALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA: $161,641 · OtherALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLE…+4 more: $134,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFERET MOSHE BETZALEL INC: $400,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FR…AISH GLOBAL INC: $390,000 · ReligionAISH GLOBAL…PROJECT INSPIRE INC: $213,000 · ReligionPROJECT INS…JFT - JEWISH FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionBETH ABA TRUST: $837,554 · PhilanthropyBETH ABA …Amatz Initiative: $50,000 · PhilanthropyAmatz Ini…+1 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyAHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $535,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $100,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureLEV MODIIN: $12,500 · International
Education$5,118,204Other$2,911,274Religion$1,045,500Philanthropy$917,554Human Services$640,000Arts & Culture$12,500International$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETH ABA TRUST: $837,554 over 5y, 45% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $629,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetAHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $535,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetAISH GLOBAL INC: $390,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetPROJECT INSPIRE INC: $213,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA: $161,641 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmatz Initiative: $50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetJFT - JEWISH FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEV MODIIN: $12,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM KOLLEL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 FundAssociated Jewish Cha…Jewish Community Foun…The Ojc FundThe Jmg FoundationFjcShorelawn FundAys Tzedakah Foundati…Mayberg Foundation IncThe Dennis Berman Fam…The Jimmy and Berta K…National Philanthropi…
Jewish Communal FundNY29.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ojc Fund · The Jmg Foundation · Fjc · Shorelawn Fund · Ays Tzedakah Foundation · Mayberg Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Jerusalem Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jerusalem Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Jerusalem Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Jerusalem Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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