· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| WORLD JEWISH RELIEF | $450,000 |
| PROJECT KESHER | $450,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC | $401,961 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To foster a vibrant, collaborative jewish community by providing leadership and generating financial resources.
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The jewish foundation of greater new haven's mission is to solicit and properly manage current and new charitable endowments and planned gifts for organizations in greater new haven so that there will be permanent and ongoing funding for…
Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…
How this is measured
318 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. 318 of the 356 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jewish Federations of North America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jewish Federations of North America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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