California · Nonprofit
JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE
JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE (California) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,547,416 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($10,160,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Jewish Vocational & Career Counseling Service does
Mission
Jewish vocational service (jvs) transforms lives by helping people build skills and find jobs to achieve self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization ceased the operations of their job readiness program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Program deliveryjvs organizes its programs into two categories: program delivery and program support. Program delivery comprises work that engages directly with jobseekers. There are three major program delivery sections: career pathway training programs (pathways support)jvs's career pathways programs foster long-lasting positive change by providing comprehensive solutions to the bay area's racial and economic inequality crises. We partner with jobseekers from disinvested communities in gaining essential skills, work experience, and connections to secure quality jobs with opportunities for advancement. Our career pathways programs bridge the gap between jobseekers and employers, providing training, wrap-around supports, and placement services. Employers benefit from access to diverse talent, while jvs helps identify individuals with the right skills and values, ensuring a better fit between employees and employers. We align our training programs with the fastest-growing local industries, such as healthcare, technology, and skilled trades, which offer a substantial number of high-growth employment opportunities. This proven strategy effectively helps individuals transition from…
$5,106,014 spentof which $1,154,182 as grants$4,551,848 earned by the program52% of program spendingProgram supportprogram support encompasses areas that benefit our participants with minimal participant contact. This category includes compliance, evaluation, and program strategy and design. Each section of program support strives to increase the success rates for our participants and more effectively serve our mission; to close opportunity gaps in employment by supporting jobseekers with the skills and confidence to secure quality careers with family-sustaining wages.
$4,647,430 spentof which $84,740 as grants$1,949,094 earned by the program48% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,753,444.
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.
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 $9.5M to $16M (+63%).
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: 2017 30% · 2021 9% · 2022 12% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Lisa Countryman
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $4.0M → $5.2M.
15 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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 VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE 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
60% 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 VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 39% · 2019 42% · 2020 33% · 2021 50% · 2022 25% · 2023 29% — 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
57% of JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
93% of JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $412k on record.
- Department of Labor$412k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE: 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 VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE?
- JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE (California) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,547,416 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($10,160,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $44,547,416 in grants to JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 63 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