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BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC

BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,800 to it, the largest being HAGER FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$318k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$-67946
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Balkan Jewish Communities Inc does

Mission

To address the cultural and spiritual needs of sephardic holocaust survivors and their descendants from the balkans, and of sephardic refugees the world over usa, south america, israel to publicize and promote the balkans rescuers, in the balkans and in the usa to restore the jewish community services in the balkans that were destroyed during the holocaust to create new services that address the present situation of balkan jews to channel humanitarian aid to vulnerable populations, needy elderly and children of all faiths in the balkan region to support industry, trade and commercial endeavors that will benefit the locals of the balkan region

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide cultural and spiritual needs of holocaust survivors of the balkans

    $247,977 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $247,977.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($152k) Expenses 100 ($142k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2019 Revenue 119 ($181k) Expenses 128 ($182k) Net assets 86 ($8k)2020 Revenue 140 ($213k) Expenses 203 ($289k) Net assets -736 ($-68680)2021 Revenue 156 ($236k) Expenses 151 ($215k) Net assets -502 ($-46853)2022 Revenue 283 ($430k) Expenses 302 ($430k) Net assets -499 ($-46499)2023 Revenue 275 ($417k) Expenses 322 ($459k) Net assets -947 ($-88361)2024 Revenue 210 ($318k) Expenses 209 ($298k) Net assets -728 ($-67946)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (210)Expenses (209)Net assets (-728)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $8k to $58k (+620%).

$9k
$8k
$58k
$80k
$70k
$28k
$40k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

38% of BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’18
−$1k
’19
−$77k
’20
$22k
’21
$354
’22
−$42k
’23
$20k
’24
1.8
months of
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

Yosef Kaplan

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed33222
Joined·+0···
No longer listed·0···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $5k.

From the IRS filings of BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC’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

BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

74%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.

NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 1%Fundraising 15%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC?
BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,800 to it, the largest being HAGER FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,800 in grants to BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC.
Who is the largest funder of BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC?
HAGER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BALKAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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