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The United Jewish Fund and Council St Paul Jewish Federation

To unite, sustain, and enhance the st.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$360k
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: 42% of THE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION’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 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $1,717,299 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,857,998 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $140,699 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $838k
  • $250k+2 grants · $705k
$45,514
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$359,548
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$345,832
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL$204,466
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$159,698
TEMPLE OF AARON$153,966
SHOLOM FOUNDATION$136,589
MOUNT ZION TEMPLE$100,456
HILLEL FOUNDATION$83,120
HEILICHER MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$45,514
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION$30,152
MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION$27,927
SIX POINTS THEATER$19,950
MAAYANOT COMMUNITY MIKVEH OF MINNESOTA$15,000
TALMUD TORAH$11,791
HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION$10,000
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, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $372k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $348k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $321k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $274k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $204k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $16k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $204k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $199k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $6k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $196k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $172k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $584k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $570k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $554k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $479k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $418k → 14%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $6k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $7k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $193k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $140k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $137k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $91k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $85k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $55k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $24k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $21k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of The United Jewish Fund and Council St Paul Jewish Federation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The United Jewish Fund and Council St Paul Jewish Federationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.
$14M · 25 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
14

Total granted

$14M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+0%

Still filing today

84%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureInternationalEducationReligionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +307%
  • MH
    MINNESOTA HILLEL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $859k · revenue +95%
  • SF
    SHOLOM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $745k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH EL
    one grant, 2020 · $43k
  • BT
    BEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -72%
  • NS
    NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +6%

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.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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2
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
3
The Jewish Publication Society

Our mission has always been to enhance jewish literacy through the publication of great books.

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4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

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…

Philanthropy
5
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
6
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
7
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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8
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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9
Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion
10
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

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11
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
12
National Jewish Policy Center

To conduct educational activities and to provide scholarly perspectives on foreign and domestic policies that impact the jewish community in the united states and the broader american public.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr13%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr20%4%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr13%81%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
12%
5,360/46,237

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.

05the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
27/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,607,993 · OtherMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS — $1,709,005 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA …THE TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL — $974,003 · OtherTHE TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAULMINNESOTA HILLEL — $859,262 · OtherMINNESOTA HILLELCHABAD ACADEMY INC — $395,406 · OtherMOUNT ZION HEBREW CONGREGATION — $313,362 · Other+16 more — $743,091 · Other+16 moreMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,605,199 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FO…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL — $2,290,932 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAULSHOLOM FOUNDATION — $745,227 · Human ServicesSHOLOM FOUNDATION+4 more — $43,948 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $3,432,165 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS…+3 more — $147,939 · PhilanthropySix Points Theater — $176,200 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $13,000 · Arts & CultureOLD GLOBE THEATRE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC — $187,300 · Recreation & SportsFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $20,800 · Recreation & SportsNEW ISRAEL FUND — $75,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $45,000 · InternationalHIAS INC — $40,500 · InternationalNEGOTIATION STRATEGIES INSTITUTE — $20,000 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $15,000 · InternationalT'RUAH — $10,000 · InternationalHERZL CAMP FOUNDATION — $128,319 · ReligionJEWFOLK MEDIA INC — $17,500 · ReligionMAAYANOT COMMUNITY MIKVEH OF MINNESOTA — $15,000 · Religion
Other$7,602,122Human Services$5,685,306Philanthropy$3,580,104Arts & Culture$209,200Recreation & Sports$208,100International$205,500Religion$160,819

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $3,432,165 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,607,993 over 5y, 11% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,605,199 over 5y, 14% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL — $2,290,932 over 9y, 14% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS — $1,709,005 over 9y, 10% of budgetTHE TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL — $974,003 over 9y, 30% of budgetMINNESOTA HILLEL — $859,262 over 9y, 14% of budgetSHOLOM FOUNDATION — $745,227 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC — $187,300 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSix Points Theater — $176,200 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetHERZL CAMP FOUNDATION — $128,319 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY — $90,514 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION — $53,797 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $49,142 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $40,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL — $36,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MIDWEST — $34,120 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetBEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA — $21,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $20,800 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEGOTIATION STRATEGIES INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJEWFOLK MEDIA INC — $17,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetT'RUAH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY SOCIETY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS — $7,048 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD — $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Minneapolis Jewish Fe…The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mike & Linda Fiterman…Jewish Community Rela…American Endowment Fo…Chubb Charitable Foun…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Minneapolis Jewish FederationMN24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Minneapolis Jewish Federation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas · American Endowment Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 United Jewish Fund and Council St Paul Jewish Federation 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 · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 48 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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