California · Nonprofit
JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS
JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,972,031 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($5,010,812). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Jewish Learningworks does
Mission
Our mission is to improve and extend Jewish learning because learning is fundamental to Jewish life, identity, community and continuity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth & Family: Our Youth & Family programs connect families and youth to Jewish life and learning by engaging a new generation by understanding the unique needs of families, meeting them where they are, and connecting them to learning and community.
$798,441 spentof which $138,404 as grants$200,515 earned by the program48% of program spendingMarketing/Community Outreach: Our marketing and outreach work makes connections between those seeking places to engage with Jewish life and learning to existing opportunities in the community, both at Jewish LearningWorks and in partner institutions all over the Bay Area.
$324,575 spent20% of program spendingProfessional Development: Our professional development programs for educators strengthen our schools and institutions by building educator knowledge, skills, innovation, collaboration and learning to enhance student learning and help schools reach more learners.
$284,589 spentof which $500 as grants$8,469 earned by the program17% of program spendingJewish Literacy: Our Jewish Literacy programs build Jewish Literacy by expanding Jewish literacy and learning through the Jewish Community Library and through diverse new channels to Jewish learning.
$137,553 spent$13,407 earned by the program8% of program spendingOur special education programming creates an inclusive Jewish community by creating safe space for all families to feel welcomed and included in Jewish communal experience, regardless of background or ability.
$114,227 spent7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,659,385.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.0M to $6.7M (+11%).
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Dana Sheanin
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $685k.
10 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 LEARNINGWORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 LEARNINGWORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 LEARNINGWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 80% · 2019 69% · 2020 77% · 2021 53% · 2022 37% · 2023 75% — 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
29% of JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
76% of JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M 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 LEARNINGWORKS is better cushioned 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 LEARNINGWORKS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS: 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 LEARNINGWORKS?
- JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,972,031 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($5,010,812). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $6,972,031 in grants to JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA is the largest funder on record, with $5,010,812 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 35 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