New Jersey · Nonprofit
B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON
B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON (New Jersey) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,312,566 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($933,295). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What B'Nai Brith Hillel Foundation at Princeton does
Mission
Cjl partners with students and other members of the princeton community to sustain and grow a welcoming, multi-faceted and pluralistic jewish community that is fully-integrated into the fabric of campus life and which provides personally meaningful jewish experiences for every student. Fy24 was an especially challenging year for the cjl and jewish students at princeton in the wake of the horrific october 7, 2023 hamas attack on israel. The cjl played a central role in providing a safe and supportive environment for students throughout the academic year, investing increased resources for programs that focused heavily on student engagement and health and wellness with the goal of supporting every jewish student on campus in the many and changing ways needed throughout the academic year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cjl's trips to israel resumed after a one-year pause following the october 7th hamas attacks. 19 students and 1 staff member participated in a winter break 2025 learning seminar at the shalom hartman institute. Our delegation the largest of any u.s. Campus attended this program engaged deeply with the moral and spiritual questions facing israel and world jewry during this challenging time. Cjl's annual spring leadership trip took 22 students and 2 staff to peru, where participants had the chance to explore jewish life in a different cultural setting and reflect on what it means to lead and to serve in diverse global contexts.
$223,286 spent26% of program spendingCjl shabbat dinners continued to be one of the cjl's signature programs. Shabbat dinners are an important experience for the cjl's religiously observant students and are a weekly opportunity for jewish students from diverse backgrounds to engage with one another. In fy25, despite some challenges presented by the renovation of the kosher dining operations, lively shabbat dinners were particularly essential to ensure that jewish students felt a sense of community and support at a time when they needed it most.
$194,464 spent23% of program spendingHoliday observances - the celebration of jewish holidays is a core programming priority of cjl. The centerpiece of these observances is the jewish high holidays, held in the fall which usher in the jewish new year. Cjl conducts multiple religious services and festive holiday meals during the high holiday season that includes rosh hashanah, yom kippur and sukkot. These activities require significant involvement of our rabbis as well as many logistical arrangements in partnership with our student leaders. Second to the high holiday season is extensive holiday programming at passover including student and staff- led holiday meals (seders) and themed events throughout the 8-day holiday observance. Additional cjl holiday programs led by staff and students are held throughout the year.
$131,061 spent15% of program spendingStudent engagement is a cornerstone of the cjl's mission, with a particular focus on one-to-one peer engagement efforts. With the ongoing israel-gaza war, the cjl focused on activities building connections and fostering a safe, warm and resilient community for jewish students on campus. In fy25, our student engagement interns connected with 90% of all identified jewish undergraduate students at princeton through coffee meetings, study breaks, and social activities held at cjl and around the princeton campus. A new student affinity group, princeton israel community (pic), was formed to provide israeli undergraduate and graduate students with opportunities to celebrate their heritage and contributions to campus life. The bayit program for jewish graduate students attracted more than 50 students through monthly shabbat dinners and social events throughout the year.
$130,866 spent15% of program spendingIn fy25, 115 students participated in jewish learning experiences at the cjl. Our popular lunch and learn sessions weekly with cjl rabbinic staff engaged dozens of students during the year to engage in small-group torah text study. Cjl's award-winning educational fellowships (jlf) enabled students to take a deep dive into topics that matter to them through a jewish lens. Six fellowships, ranging from 4-8 weeks long, explored topics such as jewish identity, introduction to jewish prayer, and israel's history, culture and people. These experiences are highly rated and continue to enable students to integrate judaism and their academic and personal interests.
$56,415 spentof which $4,360 as grants7% of program spendingGeneral community building - the cjl building is a popular hang-out space for jewish students of all backgrounds. The diverse range of programs and events, coupled with the commitment to inclusion and openness leads to a never-ending stream of students both jewish and not jewish enjoying visiting cjl and establishing it as their "home away from home" at princeton.
$127,103 spent15% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $863,195.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $7.0M to $9.7M (+39%).
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: 2022 18% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Rabbi Gil Steinlauf
Executive director
Board chair
Douglas Schleicher
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $272k → $277k.
10 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 23% · 2019 47% · 2020 40% · 2021 55% · 2022 40% · 2023 36% — 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 B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 93% 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
81% of B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $445k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON?
- B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON (New Jersey) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,312,566 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($933,295). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,312,566 in grants to B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $933,295 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like B'NAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT PRINCETON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 14 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