Tennessee · Nonprofit
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS (Tennessee) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,187 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($378,401). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $876k
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus does
Mission
To enhance the university experience for students by providing activities that strengthen jewish life on campus while providing educational opportunities that complement classroom learning. Vanderbilt hillel occupies a university-owned, self-standing, 10,000 square foot building where rooms are available to university groups for the purpose of promoting interfaith and intercultural relationships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
High holidays/passover/shabbat/other holidays: vanderbilt hillel hosts sabbath and holiday events, including religious services and dinner, each year to vanderbilt students. Students are not required to pay for these events. The purpose of these events is to provide a traditional religious experience to students on campus and to build community.vanderbilt hillel provides multiple denomination religious services during the high holidays along with ceremonial meals and programs. During passover, vanderbilt hillel provides passover seders, experiences, and outreach to multiple campus groups. In addition, during the eight days of passover, vanderbilt hillel provides students with passover meals in the hillel building and also at the campus dining hall.
$87,311 spent10% of program spendingFamily programming events and fundraiser: vanderbilt hillel holds events for students and their families throughout the year that coincide with events at vanderbilt university. During move-in weekend, family weekend, and homecoming weekend, vanderbilt hillel hosts shabbat experiences, football tailgates, and brunches for students and their families.in addition, vanderbilt hillel holds an annual fundraiser each year to support student programming and operations.
$30,820 spent$3,639 earned by the program3% of program spendingStudent programming: vanderbilt hillel provides programming for jewish vanderbilt university and belmont university students throughout the school year. Examples of student programming include first year students of hillel weekend, jewish learning fellowship, senior and graduate student specific programming, campus activities and student committees, and israel education. Student programming at vanderbilt hillel provides a religious and spiritual experience for students to support and encourage building community.in addition, vanderbilt hillel organized and staffed a trip to israel. A grant was received to pay for the trip.
$201,554 spent23% of program spendingVarious programming activities that strengthen jewish life on campus while providing educational opportunities that complement classroom learning and promote interfaith and intercultural relationships.
$566,710 spent64% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $886,395.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.2M to $12M (+43%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 4% · 2022 11% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Eric Dubin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $73k → $116k.
16 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $415k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee). These are real filings, and they are not money HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS raised.
From the IRS filings of HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS’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 THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 67% · 2019 70% · 2020 84% · 2021 69% · 2022 52% · 2023 30% — 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
29% of HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $362k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS?
- HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS (Tennessee) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,187 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($378,401). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $876,187 in grants to HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS?
- HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE is the largest funder on record, with $378,401 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 20 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