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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $598,560 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($208,900). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $599k
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What National Council of Jewish Women - Cleveland does
Mission
The national council of jewish women (ncjw) is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action. Inspired by jewish values, ncjw strives for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families and by safeguarding individual rights and freedoms. Form 990, part iii, line 1 description of organizations mission: the national council of jewish women (ncjw) is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action. Inspired by jewish values, ncjw strives for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families and by safeguarding individual rights and freedoms.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community engagement: dig-knitty (volunteers knit items that are donated to hospital patients, veterans, assisted living residents and other); partners in literacy (reading programs around the cleveland area); judaic outreach (volunteers bring holiday cheer to clients with special needs); operation warm-up (annual collection of winter clothing items for those homeless in need); and share what you wear (volunteers provide clothing and other needed supplies to children through schools and agency social workers).
$858,156 spentof which $5,500 as grants70% of program spendingSocial justice/advocacy: family and sexual violence works to combat oppression, discrimination and bias related to gender and/or familial relationships; focus on foster care (continuous projects aimed at supporting these youth at every stage and every age while in and aged out of foster care; stop human trafficking provides educational and supportive services to help prevent human trafficking in the county and advocates on behalf of trafficking survivors; threads of love and comfort provides bags filled with new clothing and toiletries for victims of sexual assault when they are taken to the emergency room; promote the vote, protect the vote works to increase voter turnout and educates voters on issues; and reproductive rights and health focus extends from infant mortality and sex education to sexual violence and abortion rights/access. Among other issues, the committee advocates for legislation that promotes women and children's health and provides care packages to sexual assault survivors at local hospitals.
$371,025 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,229,181.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.3M to $7.7M (+22%).
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: 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $45k → $85k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $732k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Cleveland). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND’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
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 42% · 2019 57% · 2020 38% · 2021 34% · 2022 45% · 2023 47% — 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
36% of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
53% of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND'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 $281k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $318k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND?
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $598,560 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($208,900). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $598,560 in grants to NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $208,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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