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INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC

INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $734,075 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($269,689). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$336k
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$734k
Net assets
$215k
11/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Institute for Jewish Ideas & Ideals Inc does

Mission

Diversity within orthodoxy to foster an appreciation of legitimate diversity within orthodoxy.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Dissemination of information and other material for an interactive forum and resource center concerning a modern orthodox judaism; sponsoring lectures for rabbinic groups, educators, universities and the general public; promoting thoughts and publications for responsible discussion of issues in jewish law, philosophy, and communal policy.

    $303,846 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $303,846.

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 ($616k) Expenses 100 ($603k) Net assets 100 ($483k)2018 Revenue 85 ($523k) Expenses 90 ($542k) Net assets 96 ($464k)2019 Revenue 87 ($536k) Expenses 93 ($563k) Net assets 91 ($438k)2020 Revenue 62 ($385k) Expenses 76 ($461k) Net assets 75 ($361k)2021 Revenue 78 ($483k) Expenses 71 ($430k) Net assets 86 ($415k)2022 Revenue 64 ($397k) Expenses 76 ($460k) Net assets 73 ($352k)2023 Revenue 56 ($343k) Expenses 70 ($424k) Net assets 56 ($271k)2024 Revenue 55 ($336k) Expenses 65 ($392k) Net assets 45 ($215k)
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Revenue (55)Expenses (65)Net assets (45)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 2022 to 2023, from $352k to $271k (−23%).

$483k
$464k
$438k
$403k
$415k
$352k
$271k
$215k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
−$19k
’18
−$26k
’19
−$76k
’20
$53k
’21
−$63k
’22
−$80k
’23
−$56k
’24
2.8
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.

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Listed55666666
Joined·+0+2+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·0100010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $72k → $99k.

7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS 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.

How concentrated its funding is

INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

66% 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 INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC.

37%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 46% · 2019 50% · 2020 39% · 2021 54% · 2022 54% · 2023 30% — 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

44% of INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

66% of INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC'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 $246k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from New York funders.

WA
NY
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC's revenue fell 45% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 14%Fundraising 8%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
NJ

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC: 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 INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC?
INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $734,075 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($269,689). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $734,075 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC?
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $269,689 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC find more funders?
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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 22 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