New York · Nonprofit
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND (New York) receives grants from 346 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,281,518,119 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($207,602,368). 172 of them have funded it in more than one year. JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$5.5B
Recipients
9,842
Contributions on record
$1.3B
Donors on record
380
Payments out run 4.1x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundationshared funders
- The Jewish Federations of North America Incportfolio match
- The Harold Grinspoon Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 60 funders to 140 funders, grant income rose $15M → $229M.
28 of 346 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $32M from 22 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ); $21M from 2 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest The Jeff Sutton Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 346 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.
Where its funders are
65% of JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $431M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 346 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- The Jewish Federations of North America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold Grinspoon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared fundersNY · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- The Louis J Kuriansky Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jewish Funders Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Evelyn & Louis Grossman Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Applebaum Family Support Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marc Haas Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 83 organizations that share your funders · funds 299 organizations near you
- Leon Levy Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Arnhold Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 77 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Jewish Communal Fund Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Jewish Communal Fund Cw Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Jcf Refleb Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Jcf Bull Hill LLC · disregarded
- Uja-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Ny Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND (New York) receives grants from 346 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,281,518,119 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($207,602,368). 172 of them have funded it in more than one year. JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND have?
- IRS filings report 346 organizations giving $1,281,518,119 in grants to JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND, 172 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $207,602,368 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 346funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing