Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER
HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,034,362 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ($3,514,575). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Hillel Jewish University Center does
Mission
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hillel juc provides religious, cultural and social services to more than 2,200 jewish undergraduate college students in the pittsburgh area. Hillel juc staff are committed to enriching the lives of every jewish student with an enduring connection and commitment to jewish life that is both relevant and content-rich. Every experience under the hillel juc umbrella is considered an opportunity for learning and meaningful engagement with judaism: the cycle of the jewish year, cultural traditions, israel, the hebrew language, core texts and values, and global jewish peoplehood. During fiscal year 2025, staff engaged with more than 1,000 students during more than 600 events.
$851,051 spent$42,615 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $851,051.
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.
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 $4.2M to $4.9M (+18%).
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 9% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Daniel Marcus
Executive director/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $796k → $736k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 67% · 2019 58% · 2020 57% · 2021 38% · 2022 55% · 2023 67% — 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 JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER'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
61% of HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER'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 $2.7M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M 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 JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER: 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 HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER?
- HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,034,362 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ($3,514,575). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $7,034,362 in grants to HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER?
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH is the largest funder on record, with $3,514,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 38 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