Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE
JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,922,087 to it, the largest being LASKO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($658,200). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Jewish Learning Venture does
Mission
The mission of Jewish Learning Venture is to inspire and empower those seeking to make jewish life, learning, and community relevant and meaningful, by providing 1)effective, cutting-edge, professional development and leadership training, 2) comprehensive, systemic support for increased institutional strength, and 3) dynamic, innovative educational and engagement programming and resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family engagement - the overarching category for strategies, programs, and resources to engage families with young children and to connect them to each other and to jewish life, learning and community. This includes the agency's work in early childhood education.
$817,093 spent$30,873 earned by the program58% of program spendingJewish education and leadership development (jeld) - professional development opportunities (workshops, seminars, online learning and conferences) to strengthen educational and congregational professionals and to create communities of learners.
$216,690 spent$7,849 earned by the program15% of program spendingWhole community inclusion - provides direct support to families raising jewish children with disabilities with programs and workshops for parents. Additionally, Jewish Learning Venture trains and consults with jewish organizations to ensure that families raising jewish children with disabilities find the accommodations needed for full inclusion in jewish life.
$375,596 spent$13,605 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,409,379.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $2.1M (+33%).
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 12% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $77k → $323k.
8 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $6.8M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia). These are real filings, and they are not money JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE raised.
From the IRS filings of JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 LEARNING VENTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 LEARNING VENTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 52% · 2019 37% · 2020 49% · 2021 40% · 2022 38% · 2023 48% — 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
36% of JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
53% of JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $277k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 LEARNING VENTURE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE?
- JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,922,087 to it, the largest being LASKO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($658,200). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $1,922,087 in grants to JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE?
- LASKO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $658,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 51 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