Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC
HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,990,525 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($6,195,655). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc does
Mission
Harvard hillel is a jewish home on campus that seeks to: -welcome students to experience the variety of jewish identity, tradition, practice, values, culture, and community. -inspire and enable jewish connection, celebration, and action. -prepare students to join, create, shape, and lead jewish communities strengthen the jewish people and live proud jewish lives. -share jewish sources, traditions, ideas, and innovations, and their relevance in our world. -forge connection and engagement with the state of israel. -foster friendship in a nurturing and refreshing sanctuary amid the stresses of student life. -engage the unique opportunities of harvard and make jewish thought and culture integral in the life of the university.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Undergraduate program: harvard hillel's core program to support undergraduate students of harvard university. This program is led by an elected undergraduate leadership and consists of educational, cultural, religious, social, social action, interfaith and intergenerational activities.
$2,419,745 spentof which $2,876 as grants$421,464 earned by the program70% of program spendingMinyanim: four multidenominational prayer groups/communities, many led by undergraduate students, providing for the religious needs and education of the students of harvard university and surrounding community members.
$210,659 spent6% of program spendingKosher dining: a kosher dining program for the benefit of harvard university students and open to members of the larger community, providing daily dinner and special meals to commemorate shabbat, major jewish holidays and special events.
$266,567 spent8% of program spendingCommunity, parents & alumni engagement: a program to engage alumni, parents of studens and alumn and members of the harvard faculty and community.
$162,624 spent5% of program spendingHigh holidays: a program providing rosh hashanah, yom kippur and sukkot services and festivities for students, faculty, and staff of harvard university and surrounding community members.
$143,985 spent4% of program spendingGraduate program: a program to support graduate students of harvard university consisting of educational, social and religious programming, and special programs and meals to commemorate jewish holidays and sabbath.
$243,960 spent$468 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,447,540.
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 2020 to 2021, from $16M to $23M (+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: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jason Rubenstein
Executive director
Board chair
Adina Astor
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.1M.
16 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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
HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 34% · 2019 51% · 2020 38% · 2021 39% · 2022 40% · 2023 54% — 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
48% of HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
65% of HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC'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 $7.3M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC?
- HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,990,525 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($6,195,655). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $20,990,525 in grants to HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,195,655 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC 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.
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 77 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing