California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,567,857 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,091,962). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Center for Jewish Culture & Creativity does
Mission
The center for jewish culture and creativity strengthens jewish identity and community by furnishing fiscal sponsorship services to independent projects in jewish arts, culture and media.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The center administers grants which support the activities of the independent arts, culture and media projects under its fiscal sponsorship. The cjcc furnishes administrative services to the projects under its fiscal sponsorship, including processing receipts and payments and preparing financial reports. These services assist the artists and project directors by enabling them to spend more of their time on creative work.
$4,468,571 spentof which $4,468,571 as grants$248,963 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,468,571.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.2M to $3.6M (+64%).
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.
96% of CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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
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
Florence Low
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $219k → $960k.
26 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
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 CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 53% · 2019 35% · 2020 20% · 2021 41% · 2022 26% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
72% of CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside California, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: 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 CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY?
- CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,567,857 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,091,962). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $6,567,857 in grants to CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,091,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY 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 67 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