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Orot

Orot (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,901,093 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ($2,787,890). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$525k
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
$316k
18/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 87%
01What it does

What Orot does

Mission

Orot was organized to enable children with diverse special needs to attend Jewish Day Schools in the Philadelphia area in conjuntion with host schools, Orot sets policy, creates and supervises programs, and provides financial support and advocates for the service provided to children with special needs.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

  1. Organizing to enable children with diverse special needs to attend Jewish Day Schools in the Philadelphia area.

    $591,752 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $591,752.

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 ($402k) Expenses 100 ($486k) Net assets 100 ($289k)2018 Revenue 125 ($502k) Expenses 92 ($448k) Net assets 118 ($341k)2019 Revenue 124 ($501k) Expenses 114 ($555k) Net assets 104 ($299k)2020 Revenue 130 ($525k) Expenses 107 ($518k) Net assets 109 ($316k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (130)Expenses (107)Net assets (109)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 2019 to 2020, from $302k to $644k (+114%).

$298k
$354k
$302k
$644k
2017201820192020
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

76% of Orot’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 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$84k
’17
$54k
’18
−$54k
’19
$6k
’20
8.3
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.

2017201820192020
Listed40404041
Joined·+0+1+2
No longer listed·011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $179k → $433k.

6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Orot’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

Orot leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

91% 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 Orot.

71%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 54% · 2019 82% · 2020 76% · 2021 59% · 2022 52% · 2023 68% — 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

48% of Orot's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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

98% of Orot's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

IL
NY
PA
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $714k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Orot is better cushioned than half of the 15,353 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve8.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,353 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2020

Organizations like Orot

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 19%Fundraising 17%

Governance

43
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Orot?
Orot (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,901,093 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ($2,787,890). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Orot have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,901,093 in grants to Orot, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Orot?
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA is the largest funder on record, with $2,787,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Orot 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 27 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