· Public charity
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc
Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future.
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54% of United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federations Of North America Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 293 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 305 grants below total $248,469,550 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $275,856,524 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,386,974 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 $10k19 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k88 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k103 grants · $12M
- $250k+95 grants · $234M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA - FOR OVERSEAS TARGETED | $100,344,595 |
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA - FOR JAFI | $16,450,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK | $8,626,912 |
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA - FOR JDC | $6,214,218 |
| JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $6,180,833 |
| METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY | $6,120,671 |
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $5,336,051 |
| COMMONPOINT NY INC | $5,140,365 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $4,900,000 |
| THE JEWISH EDUCATION PROJECT | $4,871,952 |
| THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC | $4,193,274 |
| SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES | $3,293,032 |
| JEWISH ASSOCIATION SERVING THE AGING (JASA) | $2,815,904 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $2,450,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC | $2,343,289 |
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, $352.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
362 repeat relationships — 249 still active in FY2025, 113 since wound down; 44 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
- JBJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $70M · revenue +5%
- MNMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY9× · 2017–2025 · $52M · revenue +142%
- JCJewish Community Relations Council of New York9× · 2017–2025 · $42M · revenue +234% · 70% of their budget
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2024 · $1.1M · revenue 0%
- CFCOMMUNITY FUNDS INCone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- LLA-ARETZone grant, 2024 · $565k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
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,…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The organization maintains a jewish community center to provide social and educational services to the jewish community in new york city, new york.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…
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…
The jewish agency for israel - north american council (the organization"), was organized to work with and in support of nonprofit organizations in israel active in the fields of aliyah (immigration) and absorption; service to vulnerable…
To operate a school in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Judaea Sprout Lake Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
479 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. 479 of the 612 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Relations Council of New York ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONPOINT NY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR SERVICES FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE & JOSEPH S GRUSS LIFE MONUMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY KAUFMANN CAMPGROUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC ↗
- Who funds MID-ISLAND Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS & YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSO OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS AND INWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHOREFRONT YM-YWHA OF BRIGHTON- MANHATTAN BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds KINGS BAY YM-YWHA INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY & FLORENCE FRIEDBERG JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JCC OF MID-WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF BROOKLYN ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S & YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION OF THE BRONX ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY 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: Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education · Covenant Foundation · Nash Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc
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 United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Keshet 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.