Massachusetts · Nonprofit
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 209 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,034,043 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($26,625,483). 128 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 209
- Grants received
- $64M
- Net assets
- $54M
What Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc does
Mission
Jewish family & children's service (jf&cs) provides exceptional human services, from infancy to old age, guided by the jewish traditions of social responsibility, compassion, and respect for all members of the community. Jf&cs's integrated services help people address mental health and well-being, economic insecurity, aging, parenting, and disability support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Chai services:chai services promotes community, housing, access, and independence for people of all abilities. We support people with developmental disabilities, mental health challenges, and autism spectrum disorder, plus those with a wide range of strengths and needs. Services include consultation, planning and advocacy, along with community based day programs, residential programming, social groups, and supports for families caring for individuals with disabilities or medical conditions. We also provide a full range of coaching for life skills, independent employment, and socialization. While all of jf&cs's divisions offer specialized mental health services, chai services offers services across the lifespan and coordinates mental health innovation across jf&cs.
$10,717,328 spent$10,593,611 earned by the program43% of program spendingServices for older adults:services for older adults helps aging individuals and their families navigate life transitions and changing circumstances, find support and connections, and live well as they grow older. Services include expert guidance and care management, logistical and emotional supports, resources for caregivers, and community education and training. Specialty areas include older adult mental health, alzheimer's and parkinson's disease, spirituality and aging resources, and support for holocaust survivors.
$7,952,892 spent$7,523,885 earned by the program32% of program spendingCenter for early relationship support:the center for early relationship support (cers) promotes the earliest parent-child relationships through a range of services to new parents, along with training for early childhood mental health professionals. Cers services include support groups and workshops, home visiting programs, parent-child therapy, adoption services, consultation, and training. By focusing on the earliest years, cers helps parents build responsive relationships with their child as a foundation for lifelong familial relationships.
$3,314,382 spentof which $14,000 as grants$3,012,133 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe center for basic needs assistance:the center for basic needs assistance (cbna) offers an integrated response to address economic insecurity in the jewish community and beyond. By integrating many core services under one roof, we help our clients meet their basic needs for food, housing, fuel, utilities, safety, and more. Services include comprehensive case management and an acclaimed kosher food pantry, along with emergency financial assistance, benefits advocacy, legal service, and supports for survivors of domestic violence.
$3,160,817 spentof which $27,500 as grants$590,564 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,145,419.
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.
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 $49M to $57M (+17%).
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: 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Gail Schulman
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 48 funders to 92 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $9.3M.
30 of 209 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 209 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 FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 49% · 2019 57% · 2020 46% · 2021 45% · 2022 40% · 2023 38% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
58% of JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE 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 $27M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 22 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.
Government funding JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.6M
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 FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Jewish Family & Children's Foundation Inc · exempt
- Next Generation Housing Foundation Inc · exempt
- Next Gen 17 Melton Road Inc · exempt
- Next Gen 16 Addington Road Inc · exempt
- Next Gen 8 Corinne Road Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC?
- JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 209 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,034,043 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($26,625,483). 128 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 209 organizations giving $64,034,043 in grants to JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC, 128 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $26,625,483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 209 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