California · Nonprofit
Jewish Life
Jewish Life (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,400 to it, the largest being THE STANLEY & JOYCE BLACK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $600k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $280k
- Net assets
- $-396727
What Jewish Life does
Mission
To produce public broadcasting educational programming of Jewish religious history & culture
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In addition to producing Jewish television program content, the organization produces programs for the American Forces Network, which serves the nation's military and State Department officials.Two full-time radio stations on the Internet - Jewish Soul Radio and Big J Radio - present music programs of song and story in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew and are produced by Jewish Life. This radio-programming library dates back to 1965. Another one of the creative and community oriented programs established by Jewish Life is the history of Jewish Los Angeles which was codified, in an archival form on the Internet, the story of the Jewish pioneers who founded the jewish community in the area beginning in 1850 to the present. In addition to the over 200 video interviews, the lessons learned from the history of the community have been taught in Jewish and secular/public schools throughout the area.
$475,536 spent$53,680 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $475,536.
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 2023 to 2024, from $218k to $437k (+101%).
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.
61% of Jewish Life’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $78k → $33k.
4 of 10 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 Life’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 Life has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 Life.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 83% · 2019 71% · 2021 55% — 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
0% of Jewish Life's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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 FY2021, 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 Life draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Life runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Jewish Life
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 2 related entities
- Blazer Communications · exempt
- Jewish Life Radio and Television Network · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Jewish Life: 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 Life?
- Jewish Life (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,400 to it, the largest being THE STANLEY & JOYCE BLACK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jewish Life have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $280,400 in grants to Jewish Life, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jewish Life?
- THE STANLEY & JOYCE BLACK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jewish Life 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 10 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