California · Nonprofit
SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY
SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,892,663 to it, the largest being IRVING & ELEANOR JAFFE FOUNDATION INC ($4,100,086). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $47M
What San Diego Jewish Academy does
Mission
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY (SDJA) SHAPES FUTURE THINKERS, CREATORS, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS BY BLENDING MODERN EDUCATION WITH MEANING AND PURPOSE.For over four decades, SDJA has been a premier independent Jewish day school, educating students to reach their fullest potential. With a focus on the whole child, SDJA provides a rigorous academic environment tailored to each students learning profile. Here, students find joy in learning while thriving in a supportive social and emotional environment that prepares them for college and beyond.SDJAs deeply engaging curriculum lays a strong foundation in both core academics and Jewish literacy. The journey begins in the Early Childhood Center, where children aged 18 months to five years develop cognitively, socially, and emotionally through active learning. In the Golda Meir Lower School, students cultivate critical thinking and exploration in an environment that fosters growth and lifelong learning. As students transition into the Maimonides Upper School in sixth grade, they experience a transformational education that integrates academic excellence, character development, and Jewish teachings. This well-rounded approach ensures SDJA…
$24,530,943 spentof which $6,772,971 as grants$22,397,808 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,530,943.
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 $61M to $65M (+8%).
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 7% · 2023 8% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Jessica Fink
Gov com chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.2M.
10 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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: $12M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego). These are real filings, and they are not money SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY raised.
From the IRS filings of SAN DIEGO 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
SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 49% · 2019 90% · 2020 47% · 2021 90% · 2022 32% · 2023 85% — 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
44% of SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
61% of SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY's revenue grew 51% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY?
- SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,892,663 to it, the largest being IRVING & ELEANOR JAFFE FOUNDATION INC ($4,100,086). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $11,892,663 in grants to SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY?
- IRVING & ELEANOR JAFFE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,100,086 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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