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FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC
FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC (New York) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,483,291 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ($69,426,776). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55M
- Funders on record
- 99
- Grants received
- $163M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis Inc does
Mission
To provide humanitarian aid and jewish education, organize and provide cultural events and religious services, and help develop jewish communities and rebuild jewish institutions, in russia, the former soviet union, and elsewhere. Delivering on that mission, the federation of jewish communities promotes the rebirth of jewish culture by sponsoring programs and institutions in 15 countries, creating an incubator for the first post-soviet generation of jewish artists, performers, composers, and writers. This cultural archipelago includes libraries, computer centers, museums, chess tournaments, athletics, art exhibitions, poetry readings, concerts, theatrical productions, dance groups, adult education, and hobby clubs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Culture & community centers - cultural activities often take place at federation-sponsored jewish community centers. A successful jcc is a second home, where jews of all affiliations and ages join educational and many other activities in a nurturing communal setting. Jccs host women's clubs, sports clubs, book clubs, chess clubs, singles' clubs, family clubs, business clubs, and yiddish clubs. They offer hebrew classes and discussion groups on jewish topics, such as talmud, kabbalah, medical ethics, and family law. The jccs also serve as information and education centers, including arranging holiday events and life cycle ceremonies. In many communities they are the sole supplier of judaica. The federation currently supports more than 100 community centers across the former soviet union. Its goal is to open a jcc in every city and town with a substantial jewish population, each with its own fitness center, multi-function halls and classrooms, theater, library, soup kitchen, and even medical facilities. The federation also helps rebuild synagogues and mikvas, refurbishes cemeteries and assists the needy. Through a strategic partnership with chabad lubavitch, the federation supports…
$30,209,439 spentof which $29,545,290 as grants56% of program spendingReligious & educational services - for millions of jews who were unfailingly educated in the state doctrine of atheism, forced to grow up with no knowledge of their religion, culture or heritage, jewish education is essentially an experience of spiritual rebirth. To promote this rebirth, the federation supports more than 100 educational institutions, including jewish kindergartens, elementary schools, high schools and universities, with an aggregate enrollment of more than 7,000 students.
$14,065,736 spentof which $13,756,503 as grants26% of program spendingHumanitarian aid - more than one million jews still live in the former soviet union. More than a third of them are poor, single parent families, elderly, disabled, or sick. Many lack the most basic needs, such as food, clothing and medicine. The federation supports soup kitchens and the delivery of thousands of meals to people who are unable to leave their homes, children, and needy families. It also supports the distribution of clothes and medications, medical clinics, orphanages, safe homes, assisted living, and senior activity centers for jews throughout the fsu.
$9,200,503 spentof which $8,998,232 as grants17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,475,678.
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 2021 to 2022, from $45M to $66M (+46%).
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.
94% of FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
David Mondshine
Executive director & treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $251k → $32M.
29 of 99 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 99 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
FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 71% · 2019 39% · 2020 53% · 2021 38% · 2022 44% · 2023 49% — 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 FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 40 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Jewish Relief Network Ukraine · exempt
- White Forest Jewish Community Center · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC?
- FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC (New York) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,483,291 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ($69,426,776). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 99 organizations giving $163,483,291 in grants to FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC?
- INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC is the largest funder on record, with $69,426,776 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 99 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