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NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC

NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 289 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,173,882 to it, the largest being THE KAPLEN BROTHERS FUND INC ($5,168,000). 196 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$14M
Revenue FY2025
289
Funders on record
$25M
Grants received
$88M
Net assets
196/289 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%

Against its field

NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin35% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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 ($7.2M) Expenses 100 ($5.6M) Net assets 100 ($47M)2018 Revenue 91 ($6.6M) Expenses 114 ($6.4M) Net assets 106 ($49M)2019 Revenue 103 ($7.5M) Expenses 118 ($6.6M) Net assets 107 ($50M)2020 Revenue 115 ($8.3M) Expenses 105 ($5.9M) Net assets 119 ($56M)2021 Revenue 90 ($6.5M) Expenses 93 ($5.2M) Net assets 137 ($64M)2022 Revenue 170 ($12M) Expenses 117 ($6.5M) Net assets 136 ($64M)2023 Revenue 164 ($12M) Expenses 137 ($7.7M) Net assets 152 ($71M)2024 Revenue 133 ($9.6M) Expenses 150 ($8.4M) Net assets 170 ($79M)2025 Revenue 199 ($14M) Expenses 167 ($9.3M) Net assets 189 ($88M)
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Revenue (199)Expenses (167)Net assets (189)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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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.6M
17
$171k
18
$887k
19
$2.4M
20
$1.3M
21
$5.8M
22
$4.1M
23
$1.2M
24
$5.0M
25
6.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 88 funders to 135 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.9M.

33 of 289 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)40% 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 NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 289 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

NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

41% 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 YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC.

21%
largest funder
41%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 24% · 2019 29% · 2020 39% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 28%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

49% of NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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

NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 30 states in all.

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.

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 289 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 NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record — $1.3M federal, $33k state.

Federal$1.3M
grants $1.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$1.3M
State$33k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$33k

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 NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 9%Fundraising 20%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 37 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: 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 NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC?
NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 289 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,173,882 to it, the largest being THE KAPLEN BROTHERS FUND INC ($5,168,000). 196 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 289 organizations giving $25,173,882 in grants to NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC, 196 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC?
THE KAPLEN BROTHERS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,168,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 289funders 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