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INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CONTINUITY INC

INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CONTINUITY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being EMT ACTION FUND ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$54k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$461k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Institute for Jewish Continuity Inc does

Mission

The formal charitable purpose listed in the Articles of Incorporation of the Organization is to provide adult educational programming on the topics of Jewish ritual and perspectives. In practice, the Organization provides a broad curriculum of in person and online courses in which over One Thousand people participate during the course of the year, many if not most on a repeat, regular and committed basis. The Program Service Accomplishments below are broken down according to the curriculum categories on the Organization's website. The Organization has many students that participate through the Organization's YouTube channel at:https://www.youtube.com/@InstituteatSuburban/featured.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The "Torah" portion of the Organization's curriculum includes classes on Parsha (the components into which the Five Books of Moses are divided for purposes of Synagogue liturgy", the Prophets (the subsequent portions of the Jewish Bible); the Mishna (the codified Tannaic statements forming the basis of Jewish oral law); the Talmud (the later discussion of that law); and the codified Halacha -- rules of practice and tradition pertaining to the entire lifecycle of the Jewish experience.

    $15,543 spent$13,566 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  2. The next component of the Organization's curriculum relates to the Sabbath and Holidays. The weekly sabbath and the various holidays of the Jewish year form an integral part of Jewish life and the laws, customs and traditions of these days forms a significant part of the curriculum of the Organization.

    $15,543 spent$13,565 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  3. Classes relating to principles and tenets of Jewish Life -- including following Jewish Law regarding marriage, belief, food, business, and other matters forms a key part of the curriculum of the Organization. These are the day to day manifestations of Jewish practice that hold Jewish life together at the individual and communal levels.

    $15,543 spent$13,565 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  4. Hashkafa - roughly translated as "outlook" relates to the manner in which a believing and purposeful Jew relates to the daily events of life and the events that form the milestones of the Jewish year and an individual's life.

    $15,543 spent$13,565 earned by the program
    25% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $62,172.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($691k) Expenses 100 ($31k) Net assets 100 ($729k)2018 Revenue 1 ($5k) Expenses 612 ($188k) Net assets 100 ($729k)2019 Revenue 8 ($52k) Expenses 242 ($74k) Net assets 101 ($739k)2020 Revenue 4 ($30k) Expenses 175 ($54k) Net assets 63 ($457k)2021 Revenue 5 ($33k) Expenses 139 ($43k) Net assets 63 ($457k)2022 Revenue 6 ($42k) Expenses 126 ($39k) Net assets 63 ($460k)2023 Revenue 11 ($73k) Expenses 217 ($67k) Net assets 63 ($461k)2024 Revenue 8 ($54k) Expenses 202 ($62k) Net assets 63 ($461k)
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Revenue (8)Expenses (202)Net assets (63)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $735k (−29%).

$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.0M
$735k
$733k
$737k
$724k
$716k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CONTINUITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$660k
’17
−$183k
’18
−$22k
’19
−$24k
’20
−$9k
’21
$4k
’22
$7k
’23
−$8k
’24
0.2
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed55553355
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1+2+0
No longer listed·0002100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
EMT Action Fundunclassified
$12k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CONTINUITY INC’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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CONTINUITY INC's revenue fell 92% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−15% · below the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−30% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CONTINUITY INC?
INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CONTINUITY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being EMT ACTION FUND ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CONTINUITY INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CONTINUITY INC.
Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CONTINUITY INC?
EMT ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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