Kansas · Nonprofit
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE (Kansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,008,215 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($529,185). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $521k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $694k
What Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life does
Mission
KU Hillel's mission is to connect Jewish students to each other and to their Judaism, to inspire and equip the next generation of Jewish leaders, and to build a thriving Jewish community on campus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
KU Hillel connects Jewish students to each other and to their Judaism, inspires and equips the next generation of Jewish leaders and builds a thriving Jewish community on campus. We are developing Jewish adults delivering the Jewish future. The University of Kansas has emerged as a destination school for Jewish students from all around the country. Our strong Jewish community provides numerous opportunities to connect to Jewish life both on and off campus. At the heart of it all is KU Hillel, widely regarded as one of the most innovative and impactful Hillels in the entire country. Jewish leadership is a cornerstone of the KU Hillel mission. Our goal is to equip the next generation with the skills they need to take on leadership roles in their communities after they graduate from college. KU Hillel has a robust leadership curriculum that provides students with opportunities to explore their Jewish identities while strengthening their leadership abilities. Our programs include - provision of therapeutic services in partnership with JFSKC, Shabbat and Jewish holiday services, social, volunteer, and educational programming. Our programs include: provision of therapeutic services in…
$337,950 spent$4,640 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $337,950.
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 2022 to 2023, from $659k to $809k (+23%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 15% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Ethan Helfand
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $90k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $453k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Menorah Heritage Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE raised.
From the IRS filings of HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE’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 LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 61% · 2019 60% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 41% · 2023 51% — 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
67% of HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 75% 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 LIFE draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 LIFE
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE?
- HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE (Kansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,008,215 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($529,185). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,008,215 in grants to HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE?
- HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE is the largest funder on record, with $529,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 8 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