Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal
ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,556,445 to it, the largest being LASKO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($178,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal does
Mission
ALEPH fully embraces a contemporary egalitarian Judaism as a profound spiritual practice social transformer, reaching beyond religious boundaries institutional structures worldwide. ALEPH brings spiritual vitality passion into the daily lives of Jews through programs that empower leadership, build multiracial multiethnic communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The ALEPH Ordination Program offers professional, graduate-level training, leading to ordination for Rabbis, Cantors, and Rabbinic Pastors and the Hashpaah Training Program for Jewish Spiritual Directors. The program continued to grow in FY 2024-2025 welcoming eight new rabbinical students, one new cantorial student, and one new Rabbinic Pastor student. The Hashpaah Program is in its eighth cohort with eight new students including three who are already enrolled in another AOP track. The AOP program ordained ten students, eight rabbis one hazzan., and one rabbinic pastor. Total enrollment for the AOP is about 93 students. AOP also includes Smicha Week, the ALEPH Ordination Program Study Week.
$1,081,470 spent$611,103 earned by the program49% of program spendingThe Retreats and Training programs provide opportunities for deepening Jewish transformative experience and expression for spiritual seekers, as well as Jewish educators, teachers, and trainers. Retreats, training, and professional development programs include Kol Zimra Chant Leaders Training and SOULIFT Retreats.
$78,488 spent$105,268 earned by the program4% of program spendingALEPH acts as the Fiscal Sponsor for communities and programs which are aligned with ALEPHs mission.
$415,398 spent$165,063 earned by the program19% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 210,966, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 164,573 Other Program Services Program Service Expenses 425,603, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 413,478 The ALEPH Kallah is an exciting week-long gathering of many hundreds of clergy, students, lay leaders, educators and seekers, together steeping in Renewal learning, prayer, art, dance, yoga, meditation and other inspiring programs taught by gifted teachers. As the quintessential Renewal experience, Kallah is the place to network, build community, immerse in cutting-edge innovation, delight in diverse modalities of spirituality, and feed the mind, heart and soul.
$636,569 spent$578,051 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,211,925.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $2.1M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
SooJi Min-Maranda
Executive Director
Board chair
Hazzan Stephanie Weishaar
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $26k → $335k.
15 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
64% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 25% · 2019 45% · 2020 45% · 2021 38% · 2022 25% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
35% of ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $539k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal is better cushioned than half of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal?
- ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,556,445 to it, the largest being LASKO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($178,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,556,445 in grants to ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal?
- LASKO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $178,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing