Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,007,241 to it, the largest being HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE ($365,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Jewish Family Service of the Lehigh Valley does
Mission
Jewish Family Service of the Lehigh Valley, guided by jewish values, helps individuals and families to live healthier, more stable lives by providing social services, professional counseling, education, and community programs. Our vision is that no one in our community should suffer hunger, isolation, abandonment, emotional or physical distress, or lack of community support and caring.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct assistance - through direct assistance, jfs's two largest programs include older adult case management with socialization programs for older adults, and food distribution. Older adult case management provides older adults and their families support and resources to navigate the aging process. Jfs offers internal socialization programs for clients like the retired men's social group, the prepared meal delivery program, creative connections art therapy group, and the let's play group. The community food pantry provides food and essential personal care items to under-resourced households living in the 18104-zip code, and any jewish person throughout the lehigh valley. See schedule o for continuation.our choice model pantry provides 307 clients with 2-3 days of supplemental food at their monthly appointment. Over 80 active volunteers support day-to-day operations to execute these two vital programs.
$721,857 spentof which $321,569 as grants73% of program spendingMental health services - through mental health services, licensed clinical social workers provide confidential counseling for individuals of all ages, couples, and families. Working with an experienced therapist, clients build resilience in developing strategies to cope with change, loss, and the stresses of everyday life. Psychoeducational support groups, like the empowerment group for adults with disabilities, offer a combination of mental health support and educational resources, providing participants with the tools they need to become empowered to lead a healthier, more informed life. Jfs serves people of every race, religion and financial status. Medicare and major insurance plans are accepted. Financial security is not a barrier to getting help and a sliding fee schedule is available for uninsured clients.
$143,937 spent$73,014 earned by the program15% of program spendingVolunteer and development - implements and provides programs and workshops on topics relevant to the community affecting various stages of life and addressing special needs.
$126,519 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $992,313.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.1M to $6.2M (+52%).
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 4% · 2024 9% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Debbie Zoller
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $92k → $117k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $1.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley). These are real filings, and they are not money JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY raised.
From the IRS filings of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 35% · 2019 31% · 2020 37% · 2021 33% · 2022 34% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“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
44% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
91% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$115k
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 OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY
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 Pennsylvania
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
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lehigh Valley Jewish Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY?
- JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,007,241 to it, the largest being HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE ($365,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,007,241 in grants to JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY?
- HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE is the largest funder on record, with $365,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 19 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