Wisconsin · Nonprofit
JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC
JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,796,688 to it, the largest being THE FARWELL FOUNDATION INC ($771,552). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year. JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$4.0M
Recipients
25
Contributions on record
$2.8M
Donors on record
34
Payments out are 1.42x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Evjue Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Memphis Jewish Federationportfolio match
- Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas Cityportfolio match
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.
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 14% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 14% · 2025 5%. 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $87k → $272k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 FEDERATION OF MADISON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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.
Where its funders are
85% of JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $515k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 31 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Evjue Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 99 organizations that share your funders · funds 148 organizations near you
- Memphis Jewish Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas Cityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jewish Federation of Detroitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dore Orenstein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eugene J Eder Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sephardic Home for the Aged Foundation Dba the Sephardic Foundation on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jane F and D Lawrence Sherman Family Support Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Madison Rotary Foundationshared fundersWI · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundatshared fundersWI · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
73%
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 1 related entity
- Jewish Social Services of Madison Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC?
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,796,688 to it, the largest being THE FARWELL FOUNDATION INC ($771,552). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year. JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,796,688 in grants to JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC?
- THE FARWELL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $771,552 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 31funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing