Missouri · Nonprofit
HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS
HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,870,159 to it, the largest being Jewish Federation of St Louis ($1,118,771). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Hillel at Washington University in St Louis does
Mission
The mission of Hillel at Washington University in St Louis is to be a catalyst for jewish life among college students in st louis. We connect students with one another and with jewish culture and traditions through service and social justice, israel engagement, religious life, and social and leadership programs. The vision of Hillel at Washington University in St Louis is for every jewish college student in st louis to make an enduring commitment to jewish life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hillel at Washington University in St Louis realizes our mission through engaging students with innovative programs and initiatives in social justice, israel, religious life, and a variety of other areas. Hillel provides jewish students of all backgrounds with opportunities to express judaism in the way that is personally meaningful to them and inspires them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life.
$1,113,859 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,113,859.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.7M to $2.3M (−15%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Laura Whalen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $360k → $281k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS’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
HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 72% · 2019 40% · 2020 50% · 2021 68% · 2022 56% · 2023 62% — 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
43% of HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
59% of HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS
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 Missouri
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
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS?
- HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,870,159 to it, the largest being Jewish Federation of St Louis ($1,118,771). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,870,159 in grants to HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS?
- Jewish Federation of St Louis is the largest funder on record, with $1,118,771 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 21 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