California · Nonprofit
JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION
JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $525,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($350,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $526k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Jewish Scholastic Press Association does
Mission
Jspa wants jewishly educated young adults to find their place in america's newsrooms and to know that journalism is a field where they can meld their spiritual and secular identities together in service of tolerance, democratic values and all of their highest ideals. It seeks to increase and fortify the presence of student news media injewish high schools and offer students in any school looking ways to look at newsroom decision-making through a lens of jewish ethics based on principles found in the torah.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Jewish scholastic journalism awards - contest received submissions from students in 18 public, private, and both jewish and christian parochial schools, awarded prizes (including certificates and plaques) across 12 categories of news, features, first-person and editorial opinion, along with video, photojournalism and page design, all pertaining to jewish- and israel-related topics. Conferences: jspa attended and hosted sponsorship booths at nspa's national scholastic journalism conventions in philadelphia.(fall) and seattle (spring), each with more than 5,000 high school student and adviser attendees, where we hosted one-on-one table-visit discussions with students at the convention concerning challenges they are experiencing in their newsrooms. Annual jewish scholastic journalism conference. Jspa also held its own annual jewish scholastic journalism conference in los angeles -- three days of workshops, networking and inspiration for high school journalists attended by students and advisers from jewish schools in memphis, los angeles and atlanta. Featured speakers included jennifer medina, national political correspondent for the new york times; ami eden, editor and ceo of 70…
$108,396 spentof which $8,100 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $108,396.
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. 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 $44k to $230k (+426%).
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.
74% of JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $45k → $82k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION’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 SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 53% · 2023 61% — 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
70% of JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION'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 $158k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $368k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION's revenue fell 79% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION: 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 SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION?
- JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $525,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($350,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $525,500 in grants to JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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