Ohio · Nonprofit
CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC
CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,604 to it, the largest being Maccabee Task Force Foundation ($258,471). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $405k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Cleveland Hillel Foundation Inc does
Mission
Center of jewish life for undergraduate, graduate and professional students who attend 11 colleges and universities in greater cleveland. Provides the means for students to celebrate their judaism through enriching cultural, educational, religious and social programs. Serves as a "home away from home". Also, connects students to the community. Maintains a visible and positive jewish presence on campus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Allocations, grants, etc. For charitable, educational and religious purposes. We serve as a campus based jewish student center at case western reserve university and oberlin college. We cultivate jewish life on campus and in the community in ne ohio through our undergraduate and graduate programming serving 11 area campuses. We offer a paid summer internship program and jcle programming for young jewish professionals and grad students.
$957,095 spentof which $3,400 as grants$5,692 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $957,095.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.9M to $5.4M (−9%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 8% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Michael Jared Isaacson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $23k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.7M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Cleveland). These are real filings, and they are not money CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION 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
CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 95% · 2019 92% · 2020 40% · 2021 80% · 2022 95% · 2023 43% — 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
17% of CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC?
- CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,604 to it, the largest being Maccabee Task Force Foundation ($258,471). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $404,604 in grants to CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC?
- Maccabee Task Force Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $258,471 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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