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JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON

JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON (Maryland) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,539,262 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($698,745). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.3M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$3.5M
22/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington does

Mission

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society that affords jews, and all peoples, the conditions most conducive to individual security, equal opportunity and creative group survival. Jcrc accomplishes this goal through their work in four pillars: government relations, israel advocacy, inter-group relations and social justice.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community outreach and education - educates and provides programs to the general community about the policy concerns of the jewish community.

    $591,833 spent
    26% of program spending

  2. Dc/md/va commissions - educates government officials and jewish community leaders and the public at large about the respective geographic policy concerns of the jewish community.

    $570,002 spent
    25% of program spending

  3. Israel and holocaust commissions - comprised of the israel & international affairs commission, which works to promote support for israel, and the holocaust commission, which works to commemorate the holocaust.

    $411,661 spent
    18% of program spending

  4. Education

    $275,660 spent
    12% of program spending

  5. Lobbying

    $241,592 spent$31,530 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

  6. Intergroup relations

    $177,776 spent
    8% of program spending

  7. Washington board of rabbis

    $4,865 spent
    0% of program spending

  8. Domestic affairs commission

    $1,831 spent
    0% of program spending

The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,275,220.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2018 Revenue 111 ($1.5M) Expenses 111 ($1.6M) Net assets 98 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 117 ($1.6M) Expenses 111 ($1.6M) Net assets 99 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 74 ($1.0M) Expenses 124 ($1.8M) Net assets 68 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 135 ($1.9M) Expenses 134 ($1.9M) Net assets 68 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 232 ($3.2M) Expenses 135 ($2.0M) Net assets 117 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 133 ($1.8M) Expenses 154 ($2.2M) Net assets 104 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 244 ($3.4M) Expenses 201 ($2.9M) Net assets 124 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 237 ($3.3M) Expenses 204 ($2.9M) Net assets 140 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (237)Expenses (204)Net assets (140)Peer revenue range

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 $3.4M to $4.9M (+43%).

$2.6M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$3.1M
$2.9M
$3.4M
$4.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$53k
’17
−$57k
’18
$18k
’19
−$757k
’20
−$55k
’21
$1.3M
’22
−$377k
’23
$482k
’24
$350k
’25
0.4
months of
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

Ronald Halber

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed656860596663697269
Joined·+19+10+5+19+5+13+8+16
No longer listed·161861287519
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $145k → $436k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
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$30k
funders
8
11
10
13
13
15
18
17
9

7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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: $8.2M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON raised.

From the IRS filings of JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON’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 RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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

38% 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 COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON.

28%
largest funder
62%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 40% · 2019 65% · 2020 30% · 2021 34% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% — 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

81% of JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

63% of JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $926k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON

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 Maryland

The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc85%Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc84%Center for Jewish Education Inc83%Jewish Federation of Howard County83%E-Collaborative for Civic Education Corp83%Baltimore Jewish Council Inc82%Jewish Cemetery Association of Greater Baltimore Inc82%Marylandisrael Development Center Inc82%

Nationally

Jewish Community Relations Council91%Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc88%Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc87%Israel Education Resource Center Inc87%Jewish Community Center of Orange County86%Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Inc86%National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated86%Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis86%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 18%Fundraising 4%

Governance

64
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

VA
MD

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON?
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON (Maryland) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,539,262 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($698,745). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,539,262 in grants to JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $698,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 28 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