California · Nonprofit
BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC
BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC (California) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,903,245 to it, the largest being Jewish Federation Council of Greater LA ($6,379,055). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,036 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,036 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundationshared funders
- Alan Donald Leve and Annette Melva Leve Family Foundationportfolio match
- William & Anna Tenenblatt Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
66% of BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $2.6M → $1.7M.
12 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 55% · 2019 54% · 2020 43% · 2021 45% · 2022 29% · 2023 40% — 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
42% of BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
80% of BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC'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 $3.2M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 64 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- Alan Donald Leve and Annette Melva Leve Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William & Anna Tenenblatt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fimf Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alfred E Mann Charities Incshared fundersCA · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Joseph Drown Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Jewish Community Foundation of Orange Countyshared fundersCA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- The Rose Hills Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 476 organizations near you
- Johnny Carson Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- The Karsh Family Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- The Sheila Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation CO Jeff Goldshared fundersCA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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 BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC?
- BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC (California) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,903,245 to it, the largest being Jewish Federation Council of Greater LA ($6,379,055). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $15,903,245 in grants to BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC?
- Jewish Federation Council of Greater LA is the largest funder on record, with $6,379,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 64funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing