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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $3,127,588, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,232,416 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $104,828 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL HEART2HEART INC: $40k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $25k → 6%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 -2%
  • 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%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
5
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
6
University of Judaism Foundation
—
7
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
8
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
9
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
10
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
11
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
19/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Jewish Federation of Tidewater funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Jewish Federation of Tidewater. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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