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Jewish Community Association of Greater Phoenix

To energize and sustain jewish life and leadership throughout greater phoenix, in israel, and around the world.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$268k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX’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.

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $1,351,397 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,415,217 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $63,820 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $283k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $513k
  • $250k+2 grants · $533k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY$268,380
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVIC$265,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$199,410
BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION$108,100
EAST VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$78,703
HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER AT ARI$75,000
ARIZONA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$52,000
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMER$47,500
CAMP DAISY AND HARRY STEIN$37,300
GESHER DISABILITY RESOURCES$32,500
CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA$22,800
GREATER PHOENIX JEWISH FILM FESTIVA$20,000
VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH$20,000
MERKOS CHABAD - LUBAVITCH ORGANIZAT$18,703
PHOENIX JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATIO$18,000
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 (FY17–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $45k → 14%DIGNITY GROWS INC: $7k → 11%GREATER PHOENIX JEWISH FILM FESTIVA: $20k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $284k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $276k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES AND SENIOR CONCIERGE: $274k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $271k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $238k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVIC: $265k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVIC: $263k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVIC: $261k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVIC: $260k → 11%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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 29 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
12

Total granted

$11M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
0%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • VO
    VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +73%
  • EV
    EAST VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $727k · revenue +47%
  • BO
    BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX
    9× · 2017–2025 · $583k · revenue +21% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $69k · revenue -45%
  • IC
    ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue -22%
  • OI
    ONETABLE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $41k · revenue +5%

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
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
2
Nishmat Adin

Nishmat adin lays the foundation for students to become lifelong learners and scholars steeped in their jewish roots and identities, confident in their talents, adept at navigating the world around them, emboldened to turn challenge into…

Education
3
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
4
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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5
Jewish Federation of El Paso and Las Cruces

Serving the jewish community by engaging, connecting, supporting and celebrating jewish life, values and culture in el paso, las cruces, israel and beyond.

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6
Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion
7
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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8
Young Judaea Global Inc

Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.

Education
9
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
10
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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11
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
12
Jewish Association for Community Living Inc

The jewish association for community living responds to the needs of persons with developmental disabilities and their families in our community by providing quality support and services enhanced by jewish tradition.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dignity Grows 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr11%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr11%38%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
14%
5,042/37,191

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

33 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. 33 of the 45 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $3,997,544 · OtherVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INCHILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $543,166 · OtherHILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONATHE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $343,173 · OtherTHE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAELHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $306,951 · OtherGESHER DISABILITY RESOURCES INC — $273,199 · Other+17 more — $767,466 · Other+17 moreJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $2,390,892 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CH…+3 more — $71,869 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $1,619,470 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERA…JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX — $183,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY …YESHIVA OF PHOENIX — $159,111 · PhilanthropyYESHIVA OF PHOENI…PHOENIX JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — $98,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $13,300 · PhilanthropyEAST VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $727,495 · ReligionEAST VALLEY …BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX — $582,945 · ReligionBUREAU OF JE…MOISHE HOUSE — $50,000 · Religion+2 more — $58,970 · ReligionThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $393,174 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $264,683 · InternationalTHE PARDES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC — $192,694 · EducationVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH — $159,101 · EducationWOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF ARIZONA — $24,000 · EducationSHEARIM TORAH HIGH SCHOOL INC — $17,040 · EducationFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $69,475 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX HOLOCAUST ASSOCIATION — $60,540 · Arts & CultureSCOTTSDALE ARTS — $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,231,499Human Services$2,462,761Philanthropy$2,072,881Religion$1,419,410International$657,857Education$392,835Arts & Culture$137,515

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $3,997,544 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $2,390,892 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $1,619,470 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEAST VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $727,495 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX — $582,945 over 9y, 25% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $543,166 over 5y, 25% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $393,174 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $343,173 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $306,951 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetGESHER DISABILITY RESOURCES INC — $273,199 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $264,683 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PARDES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC — $192,694 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX — $183,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetYESHIVA OF PHOENIX — $159,111 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH — $159,101 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetPHOENIX JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — $98,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetArizona Jewish Historical Society — $72,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $69,475 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX HOLOCAUST ASSOCIATION — $60,540 over 3y, 29% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC — $60,060 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL — $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONETABLE INC — $40,970 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMinkoff Center for Jewish Genetics — $40,600 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF ARIZONA — $24,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGREATER PHOENIX JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetJEWBELONG INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCOTTSDALE ARTS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITY GROWS INC — $6,869 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $6,429 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 Community Foun…Friedel Family Founda…Arizona Community Fou…The Jess and Sheila S…Goldberg Ben Mem Trus…William S & Ina Levin…Edward & Barbara E Ch…Joseph & May Winston …The Arthur M Blank Fa…Jewish Federation of …Nathan Casselman Foun…Marco Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater PhoenixAZ61.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Friedel Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · The Jess and Sheila Schwartz Family Foundation · Goldberg Ben Mem Trust-Ca · William S & Ina Levine Foundation Inc · Edward & Barbara E Chulew Private Foundation · Joseph & May Winston Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Nathan Casselman Foundation Inc · Marco Foundation

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 Jewish Community Association of Greater Phoenix 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report 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

    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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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