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ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM

ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,400 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ($500,928). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$292k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$560k
Net assets
$322k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program does

Mission

The mission is to promote jewish scholarship and education.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Adult Education programs including:Annual One Month Scholar Program, Annual Pre-High Holiday Program, Annual Summer Scholar Week, Annual Adult Retreat, Weekly on-line programs, Salons. Family programs including:Annual Community Shabbat Alive, Annual Family Retreat, Dads & Kids fall Camping,Summer Family Camping, Yearly musical events, PJ Library Programming.

    $239,948 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $239,948.

02The 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 ($189k) Expenses 100 ($203k) Net assets 100 ($96k)2018 Revenue 113 ($214k) Expenses 106 ($215k) Net assets 97 ($93k)2019 Revenue 134 ($253k) Expenses 95 ($193k) Net assets 162 ($155k)2020 Revenue 138 ($261k) Expenses 116 ($236k) Net assets 189 ($182k)2021 Revenue 166 ($315k) Expenses 120 ($243k) Net assets 265 ($254k)2022 Revenue 166 ($315k) Expenses 140 ($284k) Net assets 297 ($285k)2023 Revenue 153 ($289k) Expenses 126 ($256k) Net assets 332 ($318k)2024 Revenue 154 ($292k) Expenses 142 ($288k) Net assets 336 ($322k)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (142)Net assets (336)Peer revenue range

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 $187k to $254k (+36%).

$96k
$93k
$160k
$187k
$254k
$287k
$319k
$324k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’17
−$461
’18
$60k
’19
$25k
’20
$72k
’21
$31k
’22
$33k
’23
$4k
’24
9.4
months of
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

Arie Katz

Founder/CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed16161515151515
Joined·+0+0+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·011100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $48k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM’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

ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM.

89%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 82% · 2019 86% · 2020 93% · 2021 99% · 2022 93% · 2023 98% — 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

40% of ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

98% of ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from California funders.

NJ
CA
DE
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $548k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve9.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM?
ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,400 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ($500,928). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $560,400 in grants to ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM?
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $500,928 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ORANGE COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOLAR PROGRAM find more funders?
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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 11 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