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MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION

MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,417,956 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ($1,079,700). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$12M
Revenue FY2024
75
Funders on record
$5.4M
Grants received
$5.7M
Net assets
43/75 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,286 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($961k)2018 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 143 ($2.6M) Net assets 61 ($583k)2019 Revenue 108 ($2.4M) Expenses 123 ($2.2M) Net assets 79 ($755k)2020 Revenue 170 ($3.8M) Expenses 198 ($3.6M) Net assets 101 ($971k)2021 Revenue 162 ($3.6M) Expenses 181 ($3.3M) Net assets 136 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 182 ($4.1M) Expenses 234 ($4.2M) Net assets 117 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 229 ($5.1M) Expenses 288 ($5.2M) Net assets 106 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 548 ($12M) Expenses 415 ($7.5M) Net assets 596 ($5.7M)
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Revenue (548)Expenses (415)Net assets (596)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2023 6% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$418k
17
$378k
18
$172k
19
$217k
20
$334k
21
$185k
22
$100k
23
$4.7M
24
2.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $50k → $516k.

16 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)37% 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 MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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

MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

50% 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 MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION.

20%
largest funder
48%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 26% · 2019 18% · 2020 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 11% · 2023 19%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

48% of MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

83% of MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CT
MD
DE
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 75 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.

Federal$1.1M
grants $1.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$800k
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$300k

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 MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 3%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MITZVAH CIRCLE 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION?
MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,417,956 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ($1,079,700). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $5,417,956 in grants to MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION?
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA is the largest funder on record, with $1,079,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 75funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing