Massachusetts · Nonprofit
JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC
JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,667,159 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($649,564). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc does
Mission
The jewish alliance for law and social action (jalsa), a massachusetts-based social justice organization, puts our jewish values into action by engaging the community in promoting civil rights and protecting civil liberties, and passionately pursuing social, economic, racial and environmental justice for all people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Civil rights, civil liberties, and social justice issues education.
$782,496 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $782,496.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $2.0M (+44%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 7% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Cindy Rowe
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $92k → $402k.
15 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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
JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 33% · 2019 21% · 2020 22% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC'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
68% of JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION 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 $858k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Impact Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION 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 JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC?
- JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,667,159 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($649,564). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $2,667,159 in grants to JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $649,564 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 44 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