Ohio · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF
INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $503,537 to it, the largest being LIPPMAN KANFER FOUNDATION FOR LIVING TORAH ($235,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $484k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $504k
- Net assets
- $92k
What Institute for the Next Jewish Future Injf does
Mission
Judaism unbound is a digitally driven, radically open center for education and serves as a catalyst for an entirely new era of judaism. We empower regular jews who are to develop new ways of living jewishly.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Unyeshiva: judaism unbound provides educational programs to embolden individuals to ground themselves in jewish wisdom for the purpose of creating personal meaning and to support and train leaders who will lead the next chapter of jewish life and organizations. We do this primarily through our online digital academy, the unyeshiva, which offers full-semester and ""mini-mester"" classes taught by leading jewish clergy, academics and organizational and thought leaders, as well as judaism unbound staff. These classes encourage deep exploration of 3,000 years of jewish tradition and support the creative experimentation necessary to shape a compelling and sustainable jewish future.
$159,291 spentof which $150 as grants$99,602 earned by the program52% of program spendingPodcasts/content: judaism unbound socializes and disseminates new jewish ideas and practices for the next chapter of judaism to spark disruptive innovation, creativity and change. The weekly judaism unbound podcast, which explores innovative practices, disruptive ideas, and the challenges of being jewish in the 21st century is one of the top 3 most popular jewish podcasts. We also produce live online events, which provide our community with opportunities to engage in the cultivation of personal practice, ritual or process. We have hosted over 400 events with over 50,000 participants from over 75 countries, including our annual 25-hour shavuotlive! Program which regularly attracts over 1,000 participants.
$123,698 spent$9,340 earned by the program41% of program spendingGeneral program: other general supporting activities.
$20,499 spentof which $515 as grants$66,709 earned by the program7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $303,488.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $22k to $70k (+214%).
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.
64% of INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Miriam Terlinchamp
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $210k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF’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 THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 67% · 2021 52% · 2022 78% · 2023 71% — 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
75% of INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
69% of INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF: 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 THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF?
- INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $503,537 to it, the largest being LIPPMAN KANFER FOUNDATION FOR LIVING TORAH ($235,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $503,537 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF?
- LIPPMAN KANFER FOUNDATION FOR LIVING TORAH is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2019–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing