Georgia · Nonprofit
Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc
Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,926,180 to it, the largest being THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ($925,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $598k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $416k
What Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc does
Mission
The Jewish Community Legacy Project (JCLP) is committed to helping small Jewish Communities honor their past while planning for their future. The JCLP is the only organization focused exclusively on empowering small Jewish congregations in the US and Canada to secure their futures. With a deep understanding of the needs unique to these small congregations, JCLP provides the resources and solutions specific to the challenges associated with operational growth, sustainability, or decline. Leveraging its proven experience, as well as relationships with local and national partners, JCLP facilitates effective plans of action for the sustainability of congregational life and long-range planning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Individual Congregation Consultations During the year JCLP assisted 140 small congregations located throughout the country with their current and long-term planning needs. In addition, JCLP initiated 102 first meetings with small congregations exploring the possibility of engaging JCLP's planning services and responded to another 30 requests for information. The total number of meaningful contacts was 270 small congregations. JCLP's planning falls into two categories.Sustainability PlanningStabilize or drive increased participation; recruit volunteers; ensure leadership succession; plan fundraising campaigns; assist in securing clergy; facilitate consolidation discussions with another congregation.Legacy PlanningPreserve archival records; find homes for Jewish and general articles; ensure the preservation of the cemetery; create legacy endowments to support Jewish and general programs and institutions. Over 30 congregations have donated their historic material to Jewish archives and museums. Over 80 sacred Torahs have been donated in the United States, Israel, and in small Jewish communities around the around. Over $10 million of congregation assets has been converted into…
$315,158 spent78% of program spendingRegional Cohort Planning and Programming JCLP brings together congregations located in the same region to share ideas, address common issues, and develop programming for their congregants. Regional cohorts are in Central PA; Western PA; Greater MS; Ohio; the Carolinas; Upstate New York; Texas; Upper Midwest. Programs have included: antisemitism, Jewish ethics, Jewish holidays, rabbi presentations, presentations by college professors, Israel, Jewish cuisine, Jewish music, and security. Over 1,000 congregants of small congregations have registered for regional cohort programs.
$59,092 spent15% of program spendingJCLP Presidents Forum JCLP has created the JCLP Presidents Forum that brings together presidents of small congregations located throughout the country and some congregations in Canada. Over 350 small congregations throughout the United States and in some Canadian cities are part of the JCLP Presidents Forum. The Forum is an opportunity to address common issues such as outreach, leadership development, historic preservation, security, fundraising, and "burnout." The Forum also conducts surveys to identify needs that can be addressed individually or collectively, such as clergy support, peer support groups, cooperative purchasing, twinning with Jewish personnel on military bases, centenary celebrations
$19,697 spent5% of program spendingThe Marcus Foundation Special Grant: The Marcus Foundation Special Grant has had two outcomes. It allowed JCLP to produce a video that highlights how small congregants through their legacy endowments (created upon their closure) have made an impact on the lives of people within the Jewish and secular communities. It also helped JCLP create a reunion for people who live in Metropolitan Atlanta but who grew up in small communities throughout the United States. Over 120 people attended, representing 15 states and over 60 Jewish congregations. They shared experiences, heard a presentation about small town Jewish life, and learned about the work of JCLP.
$11,414 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $405,361.
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 $110k to $400k (+262%).
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.
98% of Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Board chair
Samuel Morris Bernstine
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $457k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Community Legacy Project 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
Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 63% · 2020 80% · 2021 60% · 2022 87% · 2023 49% — 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
17% of Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
57% of Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Community Legacy Project Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Jewish Community Legacy Project 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Jewish Community Legacy Project 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 Community Legacy Project Inc?
- Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,926,180 to it, the largest being THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ($925,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,926,180 in grants to Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc?
- THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $925,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 15 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