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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,928,235 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($826,700). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem Inc does
Mission
Transforming lives of the vulnerable and displaced in the middle east through support of the episcopal diocese of jerusalem and its schools, hospitals, and centers for children with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Afedj is an independent organization that collaborates with the episcopal diocese of jerusalem and its humanitarian institutions. It generates increased awareness of and raises financial support for the diocese and its schools, hospitals and centers for children with disabilities in palestine, israel, lebanon, syria, and jordan.
$5,321,678 spentof which $5,321,678 as grants88% of program spendingIn addition to providing financial support for the episcopal diocese of jerusalem and its humanitarian institutions, afedj works to educate stakeholders in the u.s. About the work and ongoing needs of the diocese, including through digital and print communications and speaking engagements.
$757,164 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,078,842.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $3.1M (+50%).
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 2% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Eileen Spencer
Executive director
Board chair
The Rt Rev Anne E Hodges-Copple
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $86k → $1.2M.
18 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 41% · 2019 44% · 2020 55% · 2021 17% · 2022 31% · 2023 27% — 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
50% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $550k on record.
- Agency for International Development$550k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC: 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC?
- AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,928,235 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($826,700). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $4,928,235 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $826,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 44 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing