California · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM
INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,544,062 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($525,000). 7 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 FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What International Sephardic Educational & Cultural Center in Jerusalem does
Mission
The sec is dedicated to strengthening jewish indentiy for youth and young adults, and to building a new generation of spiritual and community leaders. From our historic campus in the old city of jerusalem to our various diaspora branches, the sec's philosophy of classic sephardic judiasm offers jews an opportunity to connect with their roots in a warm, friendly and positive environment. At the sec, tradition meets modernity, and the timeless values of intellect, unity, compassion and tolerance blend to create a meaningful connection to judiasm, israel, and the jewish people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Financial support to sephardic educational and cultural center in jerusalem. Meetings for religious education. Educational/cultural programs for high school youth, young adults, young professionals and adults. Publications of newsletter.
$705,127 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $705,127.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+43%).
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.
34% of INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $145k → $353k.
7 of 16 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 INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM’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
INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 79% · 2019 66% · 2020 72% · 2021 97% · 2022 50% · 2023 51% — 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
50% of INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
66% of INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM'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 $520k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.
Against its field
INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM?
- INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,544,062 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($525,000). 7 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 INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,544,062 in grants to INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 16 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