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JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION
JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,839,036 to it, the largest being JACK JOSEPH & MORTON MANDEL FOUNDATION ($1,505,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $420k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $-6132
What Jewish Review of Books Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Jewish Review of Books Foundation is to publish a quarterly print magazine along with a website (www.jewishreviewofbooks.com) which publish literary and cultural criticism and public scholarship on jews and judaism. Our aim is to publish essays, articles and reviews which are elegant, intellectually rigorous and accessible to the common, non- specialist reader.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the Jewish Review of Books Foundation (the foundation) published four issues of the jewish review of books(see https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/issues)along with several web-only pieces on their website. The foundation successfully hired a new art director and a new director of operations. The foundation engaged a new printer to produce and mail the magazine. The foundation launched a new substack newsletter at the end of the year to engage new audiences.
$830,466 spent$182,731 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $830,466.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $613k to $32k (−95%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $475k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION’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 REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $314k 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.
Organizations like JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION: 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 REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION?
- JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,839,036 to it, the largest being JACK JOSEPH & MORTON MANDEL FOUNDATION ($1,505,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,839,036 in grants to JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION?
- JACK JOSEPH & MORTON MANDEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,505,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 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