· Public charity
The Jewish Federations of North America Inc
The federation movement protects and enhances the well-being of jews worldwide through the values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), tzedakah (charity and social justice) and torah (jewish learning).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 204 grants below total $432,669,720 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $445,142,210 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,472,490 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 $10k44 grants · $281k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $951k
- $50k–250k92 grants · $10.0M
- $250k+32 grants · $421M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL INC | $344,493,710 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTR COMMITTEE | $58,815,671 |
| SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC | $3,021,400 |
| AMERICAN ORT | $2,316,802 |
| KAVOD | $2,000,000 |
| NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES | $950,000 |
| HIAS INC | $900,000 |
| SAVE UKRAINE INC | $782,400 |
| ISRAAID (US) GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC | $600,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON | $550,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $500,000 |
| MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION | $450,000 |
| PROJECT KESHER | $450,000 |
| WORLD JEWISH RELIEF | $450,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC | $401,961 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $21.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
141 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UIUNITED ISRAEL APPEAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9B · revenue +110% · 99% of their budget
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $357M · revenue +24%- SCSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29M · revenue ×22 · 76% of their budget
Funded once
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH CENTERone grant, 2018 · $200k
- HCHEBREW CONGREGATION OF ST THOMAS INCone grant, 2018 · $191k
- NCNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +111% · 47% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
To foster a vibrant, collaborative jewish community by providing leadership and generating financial resources.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Older Adults Technology Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
318 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 318 of the 356 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds KAVOD ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds Project Kesher ↗
- Who funds WORLD JEWISH RELIEF USA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds EDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds PESACH TIKVAH HOPE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds The Jewish Federation of Greater Baton Rouge ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds MENORAH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED AND INFIRM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc · Sephardic Home for the Aged Foundation Dba the Sephardic Foundation on Aging · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Seed the Dream Foundation · Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc · Jewish Community Centers Association of North America · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Maccabee Task Force Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
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 The Jewish Federations of North America 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Jewish Family Services of Greenwich — 41% of income from government
- Lola & Saul Kramer Senior Services Agency Inc — 21% of income from government
- Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc — 6% of income from government
- Tampa Jccfederation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shalom Orlando Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cadena Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.