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CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC
CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC (New York) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,421,416 to it, the largest being UTE CITY CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,014,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 94
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc does
Mission
A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Clal's leadership training programs cultivate innovative, spiritually grounded leaders who can guide Jewish life or faith community writ large with creativity, wisdom, and resilience. Through a range of initiatives, Clal equips rabbis, clergy, and Jewish professionals with tools for adaptive leadership, design thinking, and spiritual entrepreneurship. In 2024, these efforts included Leading Through Innovation, an inter-seminary graduate course on innovation and entrepreneurship for rabbinical students; the Leading Through Innovation Alumni Retreat, which deepened connection and learning among emerging rabbinic leaders; LEAP, a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Katz Center linking leading scholars with rabbis to translate cutting-edge Jewish research into communal impact; and The Belonging Project, which trained synagogue teams and clergy to design for belonging and to strengthen community connection. Additional programs included Rabbis Without Borders Alumni Study Group, fostering intellectual and spiritual exchange among Clal's national rabbinic network; Glean Network, a multi-faith incubator training clergy in spiritual innovation; and RabbiCareers.com, Clal's…
$982,719 spent29% of program spendingTaking Jewish Wisdom Public -- The Stand and See Fellowship, our newest initiative, uses a deeply Jewish method to nurture and build a larger American religious leadership, which can more deeply love the land of Israel, better appreciate the real value and importance of modern Israel, and more fully understand the lives of a wider range of both Israelis and Palestinians than they would otherwise encounter. Stand and See ultimately nurtures fellows' ability to lead more effectively on any tough issue to lead with greater nuance and sophistication in the face of the too easy, and often dangerous, polarizations which threaten so many parts of our culture, our nation and our world. In a moment of increasing fear and scarcity, at home and abroad, this program builds leaders who nurture clear-eyed hope and genuine possibility for the future. The program has expanded to include US Army Chaplains.
$819,042 spent24% of program spendingPluralism - For 50 years, Clal has been defined by the creation, cultivation and dissemination of new ideas always animated by deep pluralism and a fearless embrace of how new realities shape both people's experience of Jewishness, and the resulting opportunities to apply Jewish wisdom to those new realities within Jewish life and beyond. Rabbis Brad Hirschfield, Elan Babchuck, Julia Appel and the entire Clal faculty teach and consult worldwide, offering a rich and pluralist Jewish wisdom that contributes to the public good, addresses our cultural and political polarization, and helps communities and individuals to grow and flourish. Having long embraced new media, Clal faculty and fellows are reaching organizations, think tanks, universities, seminaries, and business, technology, and innovation conferences.
$759,770 spentof which $25,340 as grants$434,966 earned by the program22% of program spendingSinai & Synapses - Sinai and Synapses offers people a worldview that is both scientifically grounded and spiritually uplifting. It provides tools and language for learning and living to those who see science as their ally as they pursue personal growth and the repair of our world. We equip scientists, clergy and dedicated laypeople with knowledge and skills to become role models and ambassadors for grappling with the biggest and most important questions we face. We believe that in order to enhance ourselves and our world, we need both religion and science as sources of wisdom, as the spark for new questions, and as inspiration and motivation. Through classes, seminars, lectures, videos, podcasts and writings, it helps create a vision of religion that embraces critical thinking and scientific inquiry, and at the same time, gives meaning to people's lives and helps them make a positive impact on society. It is incubated at Clal - The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, which links Jewish wisdom with innovative scholarship to deepen civic and spiritual participation in American life.
$859,637 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,421,168.
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 $9.5M to $12M (+21%).
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: 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP 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. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Steven J Rotter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $2.3M.
35 of 94 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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
CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
47% 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 CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 26% · 2019 35% · 2020 27% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% — 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
49% of CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC?
- CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC (New York) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,421,416 to it, the largest being UTE CITY CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,014,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $17,421,416 in grants to CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC?
- UTE CITY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,014,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 94 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing