· Community foundation
The Jewish Community Foundation
Built around the values of tzedakah (righteousness, charity) and tikkun olam (repairing the world), the foundation works with east bay jewish donors to realize their philanthropic goals and create a rich, supportive, inclusive and strong community.
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100% of The Jewish Community Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Federation Of San Francisco The Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Jewish Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 149 organizations, $6M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k61 grants · $376k
- $10k–50k89 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE EAST BAY | $630,478 |
| KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS | $401,250 |
| OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $328,388 |
| THE REUTLINGER COMMUNITY | $221,608 |
| TEMPLE ISAIAH | $221,574 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY | $211,962 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION AND ENDOWMENT FUND OF SAN FRANCISCO | $190,000 |
| CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $131,520 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $126,557 |
| BETH JACOB CONGREGATION | $123,596 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL OF THE BAY | $112,700 |
| FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH | $110,000 |
| LEHRHAUS JUDAICA | $102,043 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| URBAN ADAMAH | $83,300 |
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 (FY17–19, $937k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
108 repeat relationships: 91 still active in FY2019, 17 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $874k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OHOakland Hebrew Day School3× · 2017–2019 · $693k · revenue +84%
- KBKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS2× · 2017–2019 · $659k · revenue +126%
- UAUrban Adamah3× · 2017–2019 · $545k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- RUREUT USAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $230k · revenue +101%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CHAPTERone grant, 2017 · $173k
- WCWJ COLEN ENDOWMENT FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UCB-INTERFUND GRANTSGIFTSone grant, 2017 · $144k
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.
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How this is measured
214 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. 214 of the 269 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Oakland Hebrew Day School ↗
- Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Urban Adamah ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY HILLEL ↗
- Who funds CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REUT USA ↗
- Who funds Lehrhaus Judaica dba HAMAQOM The Place ↗
- Who funds Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIBFORALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ↗
- Who funds THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF MACCABI USA SPORTS FOR ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay · Rodan Family Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Koret Foundation · The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Libitzky Family Foundation · Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jewish Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jewish Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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