Texas · Nonprofit
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE (Texas) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,125,742 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,914,161). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 128
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Jewish Family Service does
Mission
The mission of Jewish Family Service is to transform lives by empowering individuals, families and communities -- driven by compassion, leading through innovation, guided by jewish values.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Behavioral and mental health services (bmhs): a premiere resource in houston for mental health counseling, alexander jfs provides trauma and other therapeutic modality therapy to adults: individuals, families and couples with greater access due to the availability of a sliding fee scale; community intervention programs for all ages to reduce stigmas associated with seeking help, to help prevent suicide and substance misuse and to promote awareness of the national 988 mental health crisis hotline. The agency is frequently called upon when schools and other institutions experience a suicide or tragic death. An active mental health first aid training division helps adults and adults who specifically work with youth identify and address mental health crisis in individuals to be able to intervene and provide resources. Children's mental health program provides counseling services to children, adolescents and teens with specialized environments designed for each age group. A wide variety of available support groups leverage the ability to see more clients and reduce waiting for services. The agency maintains active programs for supporting those entering the field, from masters level…
$1,823,829 spentof which $270 as grants$507,408 earned by the program18% of program spendingCoaching and case management (ccm) services: disaster services provides long-term recovery case management for those impacted by disasters, including assessments, accessing financial and other resources, intensive coaching and case management, developing recovery plans and supporting individuals through the recovery process; ccm serves senior adults with services that focus on assessment, coaching and case management, providing access to counseling, information and referral, transportation barriers, programs and services that augment the ability of seniors to maintain independence, reduce exposure to falls and hospitalization and provide food security. Outreach to reduce isolation and accompanying risk factors such as depression includes friendly visitors and a music and spirit program. Agency staff liaisons serve hud senior housing facilities. Financial stability services provides clients ongoing or emergency financial assistance, such as "alice" (asset limited income contrained employed) clients, seniors on fixed incomes, families and children experiencing unexpected challenges, holocaust survivors, and those with persistent mental health issues. Ccm helps families stabalize…
$5,249,105 spentof which $4,094,141 as grants50% of program spendingDisability services: provides direct services in the areas of employment, life skills and socialization and access of resources for individuals and their families with a full spectrum of disabilities, using person centered best practice approaches. Celebration company is an on-site employment program for adults with disabilities. In addition to direct services to transition age youth (14 - 22) and adults with disabilities, the jfs alexander institute for inclusion is the advocacy division for lowering stigmas related to disabilities in the workplace, places of faith and communal organizations through direct service, education, arts and advocacy. Workshops are offered to companies for this purpose; a signature film and arts festival, reelabilities, is produced each year in collaboration with the mayor's office for people with disabilities.
$2,339,140 spentof which $11,339 as grants$636,476 earned by the program22% of program spendingCareer and employment center provides a broad array of services and workshops that promote job readiness for individuals of all abilities with pathways to employment for clients either with significant obstacles to securing employment or clients who are work ready. In addition, career coaches provide an extensive array of assessments for those exploring career changes. Works with individuals to provide paths toward jobs and careers with higher income to break the cycle of poverty. Chaplaincy services provides hospital visits, spiritual support and practical assistance to jewish patients from houston or out-of-town at houston area hospitals. In addition to serving clients, jfs provides leadership to broader houston by selecting, developing and implementing programs that provide systemic solutions to problems jfs clients face, in particular reducing stigma related to seeking behavioral and mental health services and at risk for suicide as well as a focus on reducing barriers for individuals with disabilities from reaching their full potential. The third area of expertise, for which we have a local and national leadership role, is in long term disaster recovery management. We are a…
$997,997 spentof which $29,368 as grants$29,489 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,410,071.
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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $15M (+21%).
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: 2021 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Carl E Josehart
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.5M.
17 of 128 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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: $47M from 16 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Greater Houston). These are real filings, and they are not money JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE raised.
From the IRS filings of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 128 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 SERVICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
52% 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 SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 37% · 2019 32% · 2020 53% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 33% — 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
38% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
51% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE'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 $7.0M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 FAMILY SERVICE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
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 Texas
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Houston Jewish Family Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: 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 FAMILY SERVICE?
- JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE (Texas) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,125,742 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,914,161). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 128 organizations giving $14,125,742 in grants to JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,914,161 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 128 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