Illinois · Nonprofit
Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center
Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,508 to it, the largest being Jewish Vocational Service Endowment Foundation ($303,508). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $424k
- Net assets
- $0
What Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center does
Mission
Since 1884, Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) Chicago has been committed to improving life through employment and productivity, recognizing that personal development is a lifetime endeavor. JVS Chicago serves more than 2,300 employees, employers and entrepreneurs annually with programs for adults, youth, seniors and people with disabilities, serving entry level to advanced career job seekers, at locations across Metropolitan Chicago. Services include career counseling, job skills training and customized job training, job placement, credit building, small business development, access to capital and more.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Contract Services:As a trusted provider of SourceAmerica (AbilityOne) and State Use contracts, JVS Chicago administers contracts with federal and state agencies that provide crucial job training and employment support to adults with disabilities. JVS Chicago Contract Services is dedicated to empowering adults with disabilities with the skills necessary to lead productive and meaningful lives. Mailroom, janitorial, property management and warehousing programs provide case management, vocational training and job placement services to more than 100 adults with disabilities throughout metropolitan Chicago, deepening their skills and strengthening their employability.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $8.7M to $0 (−100%).
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 2 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 → 2020: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $369k → $5k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.5M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago). These are real filings, and they are not money Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center raised.
From the IRS filings of Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center’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 Vocational Service & Employment Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Service & Employment Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
79% of Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Service & Employment Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.1M
- Department of Transportation$654k
- Environmental Protection Agency$561k
- Department of Defense$209k
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 Service & Employment Center
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 3 related entities
- Jewish Child and Family Services · exempt
- Jewish Child and Family Services Endowment Foundation · exempt
- North Shore Auxiliary of Jewish Child and Family Services · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center: 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 Service & Employment Center?
- Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,508 to it, the largest being Jewish Vocational Service Endowment Foundation ($303,508). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $423,508 in grants to Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center?
- Jewish Vocational Service Endowment Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $303,508 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 4 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