Illinois · Nonprofit
ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES
ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,558 to it, the largest being TODD A AND RAPHAELA STERN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($48,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $146k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Illinois Center for Jewish Studies does
Mission
The mission of the Illinois Center for Jewish Studies is to provide every jew, regardless of background, affiliation, or religious observance, the opportunity to be inspired by and connect to torah and judaism. We believe that people learn and develop differently and that torah study should be unique to every person's individual journey. Icjs seeks to provide a personalized learning experience to nurture mind and soul in both individual and group settings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Jewish educational activities, including lectures, one-on-one sessions and holiday events.
$172,511 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $172,511.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $38k to $68k (+80%).
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.
100% of ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rabbi Kalman Worch
Executive director
Board chair
Rick Glickman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $125 → $2k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES’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
ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 44% · 2022 60% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Against its field
ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES has grown faster than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
68%
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 ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES: 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 ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES?
- ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,558 to it, the largest being TODD A AND RAPHAELA STERN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($48,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $113,558 in grants to ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES?
- TODD A AND RAPHAELA STERN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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