Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HEBREW COLLEGE
HEBREW COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,680,049 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($17,684,749). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Hebrew College does
Mission
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. See sch oHebrew College promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor, personal engagement and spiritual creativity. The college empowers and inspires individuals to contribute their voices and vision to the jewish community and to bring jewish values to bear on the critical issues of our time.the college is dedicated to building bridges between the academy and the community, offers diverse educational and cultural programs for youths, adults and jewish professionals, and seeks to invigorate jewish life through the core values of a love of learning, embracing communal responsibility, engaging diversity, and fostering jewish creativity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction:graduate and professional studies preparing jewish educational, religious, and communal leaders, through degree programs and continuing professional development opportunities. Community education programs for youth and adults. Academic oversight of gap year programs in israel which provide college credit from Hebrew College for successful completion of classes. Knowledge generation and thought leadership in pluralism, spirituality, and interfaith engagement.
$7,102,980 spentof which $1,368,819 as grants$4,992,623 earned by the program90% of program spendingAcademic services: providing services for college student recruitment, student records and administration for the academic programs.
$481,348 spent$40,477 earned by the program6% of program spendingStudent services: operating the library and information technology for the academic programs.
$288,518 spent$112 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,872,846.
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 $18M to $26M (+41%).
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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of HEBREW COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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.
Board chair
Nancy Kaplan Belsky
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $3.4M.
19 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 HEBREW COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 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
HEBREW COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 HEBREW COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 75% · 2019 68% · 2020 52% · 2021 67% · 2022 32% · 2023 52% — 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 HEBREW COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
76% of HEBREW COLLEGE'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 $7.7M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
HEBREW COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HEBREW COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $777k on record — $645k federal, $131k state.
- Department of Education$645k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$131k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HEBREW COLLEGE
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEBREW COLLEGE: 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 HEBREW COLLEGE?
- HEBREW COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,680,049 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($17,684,749). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEBREW COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $31,680,049 in grants to HEBREW COLLEGE, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEBREW COLLEGE?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $17,684,749 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEBREW COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 114 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