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JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC (New Jersey) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,920,117 to it, the largest being Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc ($6,347,101). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.4M
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$4.1M
23/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Jewish Family Service & Children's Center of Clifton-Passaicinc does

Mission

Jewish family service and children's center of clifton-passaic is a social services and mental health agency that seeks to enhance the lives of indiviuals and families. The organization offers psychotherapy, psychiatry, geriatric, crisis intervention, and case management services. Jfs provides top notch clinical care that is affordable or no costs to clients.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Jfs clinicians provide evidence-based psychotherapy and psychiatric care for people of all ages and backgrounds. Culturally specific clinical services are provided by licensed clinicians and whenever possible, billed to insurance companies or subsidized by grants. Of special note, the bilingual mental health program has dedicated clinicians for clients that prefer or require spanish.

    $1,352,224 spent$1,582,410 earned by the program
    21% of program spending
  2. Holocaust survivor supportpassthrough grant funds allow jfs to coordinate the delivery of in-home counseling and healthcare to the area's last living generation of holocaust survivors. Survivors are also able to access the agency's case management and social support services as needed.

    $2,058,572 spentof which $1,821,911 as grants
    32% of program spending
  3. Project sarah is the new jersey statewide domestic violence and sexual abuse program speicalizing in abuse prevention for the jewish community. Program services also include trauma-informed, evidence-based counseling, case management, legal advocacy, and emergency housing.

    $1,898,782 spentof which $102,798 as grants
    29% of program spending
  4. Senior wellness servicesjfs senior services provide a continuum of care that allows senior citizens to age in place. Services include geriatric psychiatric evaluations, in-home/general counseling, case management and caregiver support. The sequoia wellness program is the agency's socialization day program for aging adults and includes meals, exercise, discussion groups and special workshops in the arts.peace: a learned solution (pals) and hispanic victims of domestic violence (hvdv)both pals and hvdv programs aim to deliver culturally specific therapy and case management services to survivors of domestic violence. Pals is a research-based therapeutic program model proven to reduce the effects of trauma on childrenand their non-offending caregivers; the vast majority of program participants are of latin american descent. Through both mainstream mental health intreventions and creative therapies (such as art, dance and drama), both program offers up to one year of grant-funded services to those exposed to domestic violence. Food pantry & neurodiverse vocational supportclients facing food insecurity have access to the jfs food pantry, which is stocked with household goods and kosher…

    $1,206,751 spentof which $388,285 as grants
    19% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,516,329.

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 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 113 ($3.8M) Expenses 116 ($3.2M) Net assets 141 ($2.3M)2019 Revenue 104 ($3.5M) Expenses 129 ($3.6M) Net assets 134 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 118 ($4.0M) Expenses 145 ($4.0M) Net assets 130 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 138 ($4.6M) Expenses 155 ($4.3M) Net assets 151 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 151 ($5.1M) Expenses 173 ($4.8M) Net assets 167 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 171 ($5.7M) Expenses 194 ($5.4M) Net assets 190 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 212 ($7.1M) Expenses 230 ($6.4M) Net assets 235 ($3.8M)2025 Revenue 220 ($7.4M) Expenses 257 ($7.1M) Net assets 252 ($4.1M)
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Revenue (220)Expenses (257)Net assets (252)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 2017 to 2018, from $3.0M to $4.1M (+36%).

$3.0M
$4.1M
$3.8M
$4.7M
$4.5M
$4.5M
$5.1M
$5.5M
$5.8M
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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: 2017 25% · 2018 20% · 2019 12% · 2020 12% · 2021 29% · 2022 23% · 2023 21% · 2024 35% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$584k
’17
$580k
’18
−$67k
’19
−$68k
’20
$340k
’21
$273k
’22
$366k
’23
$740k
’24
$270k
’25
3.7
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

Alexander Herzog

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed212121192019181819
Joined·+0+3+2+5+3+5+4+2
No longer listed·03444641
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $519k → $2.0M.

14 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC.

58%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 49% · 2019 54% · 2020 50% · 2021 53% · 2022 64% · 2023 69% — 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

57% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 5 states in all.

NY
PA
NJ
DE
DC

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.

Federal$1.9M
grants $1.9Mcontracts $0
22
24
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$1.9M

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 SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC

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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 5%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC?
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC (New Jersey) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,920,117 to it, the largest being Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc ($6,347,101). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $10,920,117 in grants to JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC?
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,347,101 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAICINC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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