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United Jewish Federation of Tidewater

To benefit the jewish people by supporting constructive welfare, philanthropic, humanitarian, educational, and cultural projects.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$970k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

International$11MEducation$7.1MHuman Services$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.8MReligion$870kArts & Culture$436kPublic Safety & Disaster$130kCommunity Improvement$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $3,127,588 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,232,416 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $104,828 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

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $309k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $653k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.2M
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$970,000
STRELITZ INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY$572,736
TIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION INC$370,542
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC$252,000
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL$205,607
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA$150,000
TORAS CHAIM SCHOOL$130,000
WORLD ORT$115,000
VIRGINIA TECH$52,500
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$47,500
BINA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC$40,000
NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAGE INC$38,476
NORFOLK KOLLEL$35,000
TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF NORFOLK INC$30,000
GEORGE MASON HILLEL$27,000
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, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $25k → 6%ISRAEL HEART2HEART INC: $40k → 13%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $6k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $264k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $262k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $252k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $252k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $249k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $249k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $249k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $244k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $244k → 10%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.

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 24 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
18

Total granted

$20M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

79%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
InternationalReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +24%
  • HA
    HEBREW ACADEMY OF TIDEWATER FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +489% · 61% of their budget
  • NM
    Neve Michael Childrens Village Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +16% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2024 · $373k · revenue 0%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $357k · revenue 0%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $331k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
5
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
7
The Jerusalem Connection
—
8
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
10
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
11
Tamim Academies
Philanthropy
12
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council and the most unlike its peers is Norfolk Area Community Kollel. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,519

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 46 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
18/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $6,535,355 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Commit…Neve Michael Childrens Village Inc — $1,018,936 · InternationalNeve Michael Childrens Village IncJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $785,682 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COU…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $372,681 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $330,664 · International+5 more — $313,000 · InternationalHEBREW ACADEMY OF TIDEWATER FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $4,986,781 · PhilanthropyHEBREW ACADEMY OF TIDEWATER FOU…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $884,184 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH…TIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION INC — $370,542 · PhilanthropyTIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION INCCANDID — $245,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $46,227 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $1,184,214 · OtherTHE JEWISH A…WORLD ORT INC — $312,980 · OtherWORLD ORT IN…VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY — $273,991 · OtherVIRGINIA POL…RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $242,622 · OtherRECTOR & VIS…UNITED HEBREW SCHOOL — $201,000 · OtherUNITED HEBRE…+8 more — $315,850 · Other+8 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF TIDEWATER INC — $2,266,200 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…+3 more — $70,929 · Human ServicesToras Chaim The Rabbi Chaim Shereshevsky Institute Of Mesorah — $782,850 · EducationTALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF NORFOLK INC — $315,601 · EducationBINA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC — $287,442 · EducationNLI USA INC — $90,000 · EducationBETH SHOLOM HOME EASTERN VA FOUNDATION — $398,000 · ReligionNORFOLK AREA COMMUNITY KOLLEL — $167,000 · ReligionZAKA NORTH INC — $130,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $52,500 · Religion+1 more — $11,475 · ReligionFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $357,431 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND BALLET — $69,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $25,000 · Arts & Culture
International$9,356,318Philanthropy$6,532,734Other$2,530,657Human Services$2,337,129Education$1,475,893Religion$758,975Arts & Culture$451,431

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 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $6,535,355 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF TIDEWATER FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $4,986,781 over 9y, 61% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF TIDEWATER INC — $2,266,200 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetTHE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $1,184,214 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNeve Michael Childrens Village Inc — $1,018,936 over 9y, 32% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $884,184 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $785,682 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetToras Chaim The Rabbi Chaim Shereshevsky Institute Of Mesorah — $782,850 over 9y, 11% of budgetBETH SHOLOM HOME EASTERN VA FOUNDATION — $398,000 over 6y, 62% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $372,681 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION INC — $370,542 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $357,431 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $330,664 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF NORFOLK INC — $315,601 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetWORLD ORT INC — $312,980 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBINA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC — $287,442 over 9y, 21% of budgetCANDID — $245,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORFOLK AREA COMMUNITY KOLLEL — $167,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetMORASHA OLAMI INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC — $130,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNLI USA INC — $90,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET — $69,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGeorge Mason University Hillel — $69,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $57,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $52,500 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetISRAEL HEART2HEART INC — $40,398 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF — $18,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetREUT USA — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $11,475 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA — $5,531 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Tidewater Jewish Foun…FjcJewish Communal FundThe Jewish Federation…The Russell Berrie Fo…The Jewish Federation…Associated Jewish Cha…Jewish Community Foun…The Ojc FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…
Tidewater Jewish Foundation IncVA26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc · The Russell Berrie Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Ojc Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation

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 Federation of Tidewater 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 · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 46 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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