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JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC (New York) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,489,271 to it, the largest being LENNAR FOUNDATION ($3,500,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$172k
Funders on record
183
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$0
59/183 repeat funders
01What it does

What Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc does

Mission

The corporation is a nonprofit organization organized and operated for charitable, scientific, environmental, cultural, religious and educational purposes. In particular, those purposes include raising, receiving and administering contributions. Pledges, donations and other funds and assets, and supporting and undertaking programs and projects, in furtherance and promotion of the development, protection, living conditions and general welfare of the land of israel and its people, as well as thereby benefitting the region and the world. The corporation is separate and independent of and arms-length and self-governing from any other entity, with exclusive authority as to its projects, partnerships, property, fundraising and administration and use of its funds.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The corporation is a nonprofit organization organized and operated for charitable, scientific, environmental, cultural, religious and educational purposes. In particular, those purposes include raising, receiving and administering contributions. Pledges, donations and other funds and assets, and supporting and undertaking programs and projects, in furtherance and promotion of the development, protection, living conditions and general welfare of the land of israel and its people, as well as thereby benefitting the region and the world.

    $172,025 spentof which $172,025 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $172,025.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Russell Robinson

CEO

Board chair

Dr Sol Lizerbram

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $150k → $3.0M.

34 of 183 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 NATIONAL FUND-USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 183 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 NATIONAL FUND-USA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

46% 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 NATIONAL FUND-USA INC.

21%
largest funder
45%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 79% · 2020 54% · 2021 66% · 2022 23% · 2023 33% — 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

50% of JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 31 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 68 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin0% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC

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In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC?
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC (New York) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,489,271 to it, the largest being LENNAR FOUNDATION ($3,500,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC have?
IRS filings report 183 organizations giving $16,489,271 in grants to JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC?
LENNAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 183 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