Delaware · Nonprofit
KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC
KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,026,943 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC ($1,107,777). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $887k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Kristol Center for Jewish Life at the University of Delaware Inc does
Mission
Enriching the lives of jewish students at the university of delaware.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On-going campus initiatives weekly friday night (shabbat dinners) to approximately 75 students, jewish holiday services and meals throughout the year that serve approximately 500 students (including at least half a dozen holidays), 2-3 weekly programs throughout the school year implemented by seven registered student organizations (rso's) under the kristol center umbrella. The rso's provide service learning opportunities, social networks and experiences of jewish engagement on campus.
$419,114 spent$73,302 earned by the program84% of program spendingImmersion jewish experiences sent students to israel on a campus-based taglit-birthright israel trip.
$57,863 spent$39,138 earned by the program12% of program spendingFreshmen fest is a jewish student orientation program. The incoming freshmen spend their first 30 hours on campus doing hillel activities including icebreakers, team building tours, resource fairs, and social programming provided by upper classmen.
$24,820 spent$17,297 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $501,797.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.5M to $4.9M (+40%).
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. 3 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
Donna Schwartz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $313k → $272k.
9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC’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
KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 41% · 2019 38% · 2020 29% · 2021 45% · 2022 50% · 2023 50% — 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.
How long its funders stay
55% of KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
59% of KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC'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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC?
- KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,026,943 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC ($1,107,777). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $4,026,943 in grants to KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC?
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,107,777 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 18 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