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PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY

PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY (Oregon) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,415,615 to it, the largest being JAY AND DIANE ZIDELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,064,333). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$9.0M
Revenue FY2025
18
Funders on record
$4.4M
Grants received
$7.3M
Net assets
14/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY's revenue grew 38% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 ($6.5M) Expenses 100 ($6.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2018 Revenue 111 ($7.2M) Expenses 109 ($6.8M) Net assets 121 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 115 ($7.4M) Expenses 113 ($7.0M) Net assets 140 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 121 ($7.8M) Expenses 128 ($8.0M) Net assets 135 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 125 ($8.1M) Expenses 103 ($6.4M) Net assets 226 ($5.3M)2022 Revenue 159 ($10M) Expenses 126 ($7.8M) Net assets 309 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 132 ($8.6M) Expenses 137 ($8.5M) Net assets 321 ($7.6M)2024 Revenue 137 ($8.8M) Expenses 143 ($8.9M) Net assets 336 ($7.9M)2025 Revenue 138 ($9.0M) Expenses 162 ($10M) Net assets 308 ($7.3M)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (162)Net assets (308)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 21% · 2022 25% · 2023 6% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

14% of PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$251k
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$437k
18
$403k
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$153k
20
$1.7M
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$2.5M
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$43k
23
$44k
24
$1.1M
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $519k → $248k.

6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)45% 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: $2.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oregon Jewish Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY raised.

From the IRS filings of PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY’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

PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY.

47%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 52% · 2019 78% · 2020 54% · 2021 50% · 2022 50% · 2023 70%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

69% of PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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 PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

WI
MI
OR
OH
NJ
DE
TX

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

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 18 funders put you under-funded 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 PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY receives

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

State$1.3M
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$860k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$405k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$12k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS$1k

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 PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY

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 Oregon

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Mittleman Jewish Community Center · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY: 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 PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY?
PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY (Oregon) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,415,615 to it, the largest being JAY AND DIANE ZIDELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,064,333). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $4,415,615 in grants to PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY?
JAY AND DIANE ZIDELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,064,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 18funders 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