Florida · Nonprofit
GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC
GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,571,889 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($2,227,767). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc does
Mission
The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Engagement and community building schilit hillel at university of florida hillel offers jewish students at the university of florida various opportunities to engage in vibrant jewish campus life and build meaningful connections within the jewish community. Schilit hillel functions as a central hub where students can find a sense of belonging, peer support, and chances for personal growth. Through relationship-based engagement, community-building programs, student outreach initiatives, and leadership development efforts, schilit hillel creates an inclusive environment that encourages students to explore and express their jewish identity. Schilit hillel also provides student employment opportunities that allow students to strengthen their ties to jewish life while gaining professional experience and financial support during college.
$603,540 spent40% of program spendingJewish life and learning schilit hillel provides a wide variety of educational, cultural, and religious programs aimed at helping students connect with jewish traditions, strengthen their jewish identity, and build lasting community. Each year, schilit hillel supports hundreds of students through fellowships, internships, leadership projects, and immersive learning experiences centered on jewish education, community organizing, israel studies, and civic involvement. Schilit hillel also hosts comprehensive shabbat and holiday programs, serving thousands of meals annually and offering accessible entry points for students from all backgrounds and levels of jewish experience. In collaboration with hundreds of student leaders, schilit hillel maintains a busy schedule of religious, educational, social, and wellness activities designed to ensure every jewish student can develop a meaningful and lasting connection to judaism and the jewish community.
$603,540 spent40% of program spendingAntisemitism and israel education schilit hillel educates students, faculty, administrators, and campus partners about the jewish student experience and the importance of allyship in response to rising antisemitism on college campuses. Through educational programming, advocacy initiatives, intergroup dialogue, and public awareness campaigns, including the award-winning spread cream cheese not hate initiative, schilit hillel works to create a safer and more inclusive campus environment for jewish students. Schilit hillel also offers educational programming focused on israel, covering historical, cultural, and contemporary perspectives to deepen students' understanding and connections to israel. Additionally, schilit hillel organizes immersive travel and experiential learning opportunities in israel for both jewish and non-jewish students. Each year, over 500 students participate in programs such as birthright israel trips, the birthright israel onward summer internship in tel aviv, the fact finders educational experience for non-jewish student leaders, and other israel-based initiatives that promote identity development, leadership skills, and cross-cultural understanding.
$301,772 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,508,852.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $7.0M to $7.7M (+10%).
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: 2022 5% · 2023 6% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Rabbi Jonah Zinn
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $437k → $560k.
15 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT 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
GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 34% · 2019 54% · 2020 61% · 2021 76% · 2022 67% · 2023 59% — 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 GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $948k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT 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 GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC?
- GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,571,889 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($2,227,767). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,571,889 in grants to GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC?
- HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE is the largest funder on record, with $2,227,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 30 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