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United Jewish Federation Stamford New Canaan Darien Inc

United jewish federation is committed to building and safeguarding our jewish community and strengthening connections to israel and world jewry by mobilizing our community to invest in jewish life for today and future generations.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$230k
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: 56% of UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION STAMFORD NEW CANAAN DARIEN INC’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.

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $994,506 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,115,806 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $121,300 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $356k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $638k
$29,599
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY$230,400
SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$181,300
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION$123,787
STAMFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$102,650
TEMPLE SINAI$45,250
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$39,570
EMUNAH OF AMERICA$35,000
HILLEL FOUNDATION AT UCONN$32,000
ISRAEL FOOD RESCUE$29,599
CHABAD STAMFORD$29,250
YOUNG ISRAEL OF STAMFORD CT$25,900
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMER$25,000
TEMPLE BETH EL$22,150
VILLAGE OF JORDAN$20,000
CONGREGATION AGUDATH SHOLOM$19,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 14%ISRAEL FOOD RESCUE: $30k → 20%HILLEL FOUNDATION AT UCONN: $32k → 11%EMUNAH OF AMERICA: $126k → 17%EMUNAH OF AMERICA: $35k → 17%EMUNAH OF AMERICA: $35k → 17%JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMER: $245k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION: $124k → 17%JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMER: $43k → 17%BI CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY: $91k → 9%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $40k → 17%BI-CULTURAL DAY SCHOOL: $86k → 9%JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMER: $27k → 17%BI-CULTURAL DAY SCHOOL: $69k → 9%JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMER: $25k → 17%TEMPLE SINAI: $45k → 9%TEMPLE SINAI: $28k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $950k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $250k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $227k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $160k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $100k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $46k → 17%CONGREGATION AGUDATH SHOLOM: $30k → 9%SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $215k → 9%TEMPLE BETH EL: $26k → 9%SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $181k → 9%TEMPLE BETH EL: $23k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $174k → 9%SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $165k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $164k → 9%SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $160k → 9%SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $147k → 9%SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $45k → 9%BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY: $230k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $162k → 9%BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY: $159k → 9%BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY: $142k → 9%BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY: $135k → 9%BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY: $115k → 9%STAMFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $103k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $96k → 9%STAMFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $93k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $92k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $91k → 9%STAMFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $55k → 9%CHABAD STAMFORD: $29k → 9%YOUNG ISRAEL OF STAMFORD CT: $26k → 9%CHABAD STAMFORD: $23k → 9%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 17 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$4.2M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+21%

Still filing today

59%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionArts & 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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $697k · revenue +122%
  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $346k · revenue +93%
  • CJ
    CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF STAMFORD INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $89k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • DK
    DOMUS KIDS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $900 · revenue +9%
  • PT
    PERSON TO PERSON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $900 · revenue +28%
  • TN
    THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $900 · revenue +21%

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
The Jerusalem Connection
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2
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Sherit Isroel
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4
University of Judaism Foundation
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5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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6
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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7
The Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc

Religious study and services

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8
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
9
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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10
Gan Yeladim of Stamford Inc

A safe, loving, and inclusive learning community where children, families, and staff feel welcome, accepted, and supported and where individuals are empowered to contribute their unique experiences and interests.

Education
11
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friendship Circle of Connecticut Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr21%22%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr14%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr21%7%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr14%62%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
11%
2,796/26,606

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

24 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. 24 of the 30 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC — $1,251,212 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INCTHE BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY OF CONNECTICUT INCORPORATED — $1,025,848 · OtherTHE BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY OF CONNECTICUT INCORPORATEDJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $697,467 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC+12 more — $528,358 · Other+12 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $1,733,099 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH A…+3 more — $90,069 · PhilanthropyJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $345,784 · InternationalJEWISH AGENC…EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC — $196,441 · InternationalEMUNAH OF AM…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $123,787 · InternationalThe American…+2 more — $35,000 · InternationalFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL INC — $73,558 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $19,213 · ReligionCHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF STAMFORD INC — $88,962 · Food & NutritionSouthern New England Consortium of Partnership 2000 Incorporated — $10,613 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $900 · EducationFriendship Circle of Connecticut Inc — $800 · Education
Other$3,502,885Philanthropy$1,823,168International$701,012Religion$92,771Food & Nutrition$88,962Arts & Culture$10,613Education$1,700

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 — $1,733,099 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC — $1,251,212 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $697,467 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $345,784 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC — $196,441 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $123,787 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF STAMFORD INC — $88,962 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL INC — $73,558 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $59,570 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarmel Academy — $54,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut — $40,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $29,599 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $19,213 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALEPH SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION ASSOCIATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $12,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetSouthern New England Consortium of Partnership 2000 Incorporated — $10,613 over 2y, 14% of budgetDOMUS KIDS INC — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRICA INC — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Circle of Connecticut Inc — $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC — $180 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.

Jewish Communal FundUja Federation of Gre…B L Manger FoundationFjcFederation for Jewish…The Louis J Kuriansky…Vanguard Charitable E…Fairfield County's Co…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…
Jewish Communal FundNY27.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc · B L Manger Foundation · Fjc · Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County · The Louis J Kuriansky Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Federation Stamford New Canaan Darien 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Jewish Federation Association of Connecticut Inc — 69% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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