Utah · Nonprofit
Jewish Family Service
Jewish Family Service (Utah) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,145,764 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,880,500). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Jewish Family Service does
Mission
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal issues. We strengthen individuals and families of all backgrounds through counseling, advocacy, care amanagement, and community education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency Assistance: Emergency Assistance was the most significant service provided by JFS in terms of financial expenditures. We supplied more than $600,000 in emergency aid to pay for rent, car payments, medical expenses, and other needs for families in crisis.
$1,029,295 spentof which $613,934 as grants59% of program spendingCounseling: All of our counseling services and programs remained available via virtual platforms during 2025. Staff continued weekly meetings with each other, including meetings of the Clinical team, to provide peer support and supervision. More than 2,000 hours of reduced-fee counseling services were offered in 2025.
$437,781 spentof which $30,274 as grants$16,501 earned by the program25% of program spendingAging Services: JFS Provides care planning, care management, respite care, music and memory, and counseling to aging clients. Our Arts and Aging initiative includes the Gleeful Choir (a choir for people with dementia and their caregivers), facilitator hours and an Arts and Aging Coordinator. We provide a monthly Caregiver Support Group which includes a respite component. We continue to provide the Music and Memory program to families facing the challenges of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
$289,038 spentof which $6,008 as grants16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,756,114.
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 2019 to 2020, from $797k to $1.9M (+137%).
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 8% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 12% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 5% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Melissa Zimmerman
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $185k → $2.0M.
18 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Service’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 14% · 2018 17% · 2019 16% · 2020 69% · 2021 38% · 2022 40% · 2023 67% — 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
67% of Jewish Family Service'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
74% 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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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 (Utah) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,145,764 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,880,500). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% 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 65 organizations giving $9,145,764 in grants to Jewish Family Service, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jewish Family Service?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,880,500 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 Utah. 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 65 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