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Youngstown Area Jewish Federation

The mission of the YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION is to sustain and enrich the quality of life for the jewish people regionally, in israel and worldwide.

$3.1M
Granted FY2018
54
Grants FY2018
8
States reached
$222k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

72% of Youngstown Area Jewish Federation’s FY2024 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. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Youngstown Area Jewish Federation named its own grantees at scale: 44 organizations, $972k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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44
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’19
1
’20
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’22
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

Philanthropy$2.5MReligion$1.1MInternational$324kArts & Culture$203kEducation$115kHealth$96kCommunity Improvement$70kHuman Services$60kOther$0
02FY2018 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 54 grants below total $972,287, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,069,786 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,097,499 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 · FY2018

  • Under $10k17 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $497k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $379k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA$221,767
COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION$57,200
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$50,000
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$50,000
YSU JONES HALL YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY DISTRIBUTION TRIP TO ISRAEL$29,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$25,500
NORTHERN ISRAEL CENTER FOR ARTS TOURISM & HOSPITALITY$25,000
YOUNGSTOWN BUSINESS INCUBATOR$25,000
ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS$23,200
BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART$21,800
HAND IN HAND DISTRIBUTION JAFFA SCHOOL$20,000
YWCA$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$20,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART$20,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL$19,100
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH AGING SERVICES GERIATRIC HOME MORRIS LIFE REHAB DON: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS LAKE TO RIVER CHAPTER: $10k → 19%YWCA: $20k → 19%YWCA: $20k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRIBUTION: $10k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
NE
MD
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Youngstown Area Jewish Federation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 0%.

Youngstown Area Jewish Federationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 33 repeat orgs$387k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
22

Total granted

$1.9M
$266k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+42%

Still filing today

82%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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

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InternationalArts & CultureEducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • CF
    COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $948k · revenue +67%
  • JF
    JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +80%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +147%
  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +5%
  • SM
    STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +113%
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
Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton Inc

The jewish federation of greater dayton is the central organization established to further the welfare of the jewish community. the federation coordinates social, welfare and cultural programs; fosters cooperation among jewish…

Philanthropy
2
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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3
Youngstown Area Jewish Cemeteries Association

To provide funeral and cemetery services for synagogue cemeteries.

Membership Benefit
4
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
5
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
6
Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Inc

The jewish foundation of greater new haven's mission is to solicit and properly manage current and new charitable endowments and planned gifts for organizations in greater new haven so that there will be permanent and ongoing funding for…

Religion
7
Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines

The mission of the jewish federation of greater des moines is to further the continuity and welfare of the des moines, ames, and other central iowa jewish communities, and to enable these jewish communities to maximize their resources by…

Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Rabbinical College Netiv Hadaat Inc

To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem

Education
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
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
12
American Jewish Historical Society

See schedule o - the american jewish historical society (the "society") is the oldest ethnic, cultural archive in the united states. the society provides access to more than 30 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Area Jewish Federation; the most unlike its peers is Eastern Madera County Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/67
Grantees still filing
51/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $2,222,538 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $100,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $102,670 · PhilanthropyCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN: $947,937 · ReligionCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH E…+3 more: $26,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $60,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $55,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,500 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $35,000 · InternationalISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $29,200 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP: $20,000 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $20,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $15,000 · International+3 more: $25,200 · InternationalSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $40,000 · OtherSAVE A CHILD…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $25,000 · OtherNORTHERN ISRAEL CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY LTD: $25,000 · OtherINTERFAITH HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC: $25,000 · OtherHILLEL FOUNDATION AT OHIO UNIV: $21,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OHEV BETH SHOLOM: $20,600 · OtherTEMPLE EL EMETH: $20,250 · OtherACLD: $20,000 · OtherTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $50,000 · OtherTHE YOUNGSTO…FLORIDA LIONS EYE CLINC INC: $25,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $17,500 · OtherMAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST: $20,000 · OtherEastern Madera County Humane Society: $20,000 · Other+19 more: $183,921 · Other+19 moreFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $54,100 · Arts & CultureYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $39,000 · Arts & CultureBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $34,300 · Arts & CultureSTUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureOH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHOPE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTERN RESERVE: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $46,500 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationIsrael Venture Network: $10,000 · EducationMAHONING VALLEY COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM INC: $8,000 · EducationYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $40,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION OF JEWISH AGING SERVICES: $5,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$2,425,208Religion$973,937International$329,900Other$513,271Arts & Culture$196,900Education$114,500Human Services$65,000

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 JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $2,222,538 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN: $947,937 over 8y, 24% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $54,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $46,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY: $42,320 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $39,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $34,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $29,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC: $27,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetNORTHERN ISRAEL CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY LTD: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFLORIDA LIONS EYE CLINC INC: $25,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetINTERFAITH HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION AT OHIO UNIV: $21,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetEastern Madera County Humane Society: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOHIO VALLEY TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHENRY M HALSTEAD FIELD OF OPPORTUNITY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE GHETTO FIGHTERS' MUSEUMINC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $12,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIsrael Venture Network: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY: $8,326 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAHONING VALLEY COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM INC: $8,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetACCESS HEALTH MAHONING VALLEY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Youngstown Area Jewis…Youngstown Fdn GeneralCommunity Foundation …Frances Schermer Char…Fibushendricks Family…Premier Bank Foundati…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Neckerman William M J…Senator Maurice & Flo…Walter E & Caroline H…The Raymond John Wean…Florence S Beecher Fdn
Youngstown Area Jewish FoundationOH66.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation · Youngstown Fdn General · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Neckerman William M Jr Charitable · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Florence S Beecher Fdn

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 Youngstown Area Jewish Federation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Youngstown Area Jewish Federation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 74 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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