Illinois · Nonprofit
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,573,340 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ($1,997,447). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Jewish Council for Youth Services does
Mission
Guided by jewish values and culture, Jewish Council for Youth Services provides educational and recreational programs for chicagoland's children and through board service, develops the next generation of jewish civic leaders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early childhood education (childcare, preschool, enrichments and after-school programs) 583 children were served. Early childhood education lays the foundation for cognitive functioning and helps students develop emotionally, socially, and culturally. Children are given the opportunity to indulge in their natural inclinations to explore, investigate and experiment through play. They acquire the fundamental concepts and capacities that allow them to effectively absorb from and adapt to the ever-changing environment. After-school care provides a safe place for children of working parents to spend the hours between the end of the school day and the end of the work day, as well as school holidays and weekends.
$10,280,916 spentof which $115,496 as grants$11,673,023 earned by the program94% of program spendingPhysical and social development (camping and recreation programs)213 individuals were served through the agency's physical & social development programs. Jewish Council for Youth Services offers a variety of camp experiences that challenge participants to try new activities and explore the world around them. Camp programming also helps children gain new social skills, develop gross motor and fitness skills, and cultivate positive relationships with peers and adults.
$689,440 spent$492,187 earned by the program6% of program spendingThe leadership development boot camp ("boot camp") is an annual one-day intensive training program in partnership with northwestern university kellogg school of management (kellogg). Kellogg customizes the curriculum with the jcys ceo, resulting in four personalized sessions led by kellogg faculty that provide board members and designates with the skills and knowledge to effectively fulfill their responsibilities as members of the jcys board of directors and to be better prepared to serve as leaders within the jewish community. Boot camp takes place at northwestern's downtown campus and part of the training is open to board alumni and key staff, to encourage continuous learning for more experienced leaders. It began in 2019 as part of the visioning of the leadership circle, a directed path of leadership identification, recruitment, and development to the part of jcys' mission of training young jewish leaders through board service. The program did not operate for the fiscal year end may 31, 2025 but will resume in fiscal year 2026.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,970,356.
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 2018 to 2019, from $17M to $18M (+6%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 39% · 2022 21% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% 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.
Chief executive
Samantha Jakubowski
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $406k → $558k.
12 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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 COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 39% · 2019 46% · 2020 32% · 2021 42% · 2022 47% · 2023 42% — 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
35% of JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
55% of JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES'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 $2.1M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES's revenue grew 24% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES?
- JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,573,340 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ($1,997,447). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $4,573,340 in grants to JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES?
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO is the largest funder on record, with $1,997,447 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 66 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing