North Carolina · Nonprofit
Sicha
Sicha (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($27,250). 2 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 FY2022
- $39k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Sicha does
Mission
Sicha is dedicated to enriching Jewish religious life by developing educational programs and workshops that strengthen and enrich rabbis and Jewish communities.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Sichat Rabbanim ("Conversation Among Rabbis") Rabbinic Enrichment program for individual rabbis who serve Jewish communities. Sichat Rabbanim seeks to create and sustain individually developed learning programs to enable a rabbi to develop a chosen text-based theme leading toward personal growth and valuable programmatic ends for the community. Sichat Rabbanim alumnae are now helping to generate new rabbinic learning projects under the auspices of Sicha (see under General Education). Sicha continued to align its rabbinic education programs more closely with its B'almah initiative concerning end of life matters. Several former rabbinic interns and colleagues met by phone or Zoom about 7 hours per week on average in FY22.
$15,284 spent27% of program spendingTevunah (Discernment): Periodic essay and discussion series which engages classical Jewish sources on the use of speech in building relationships and in building community. Tevunah participants include professionals whose work centers upon the arts of interpersonal communication, community building, and leadership and includes interfaith participants in response to the growing needs of a population in need of community. This program did not meet in FY22 due to Covid and illness.
$611 spent1% of program spendingB'almah ("In the world"): In the face of loss, Jewish tradition offers a statement of life affirming intention: May the great name be magnified and sanctified in the world/balmah that was created with divine will. Balmah is a project to explore the richness of Jewish traditions of both ancient and modern that move loss toward the creative renewal of individual, family, and community life. B'almah maintained its Resource Library for rabbis and burial society groups for about 1 hour per week. This program did not meet in FY22 due to Covid and illness.
$611 spent1% of program spendingShabbaton ("weekend retreat" for Lay Leaders): Annual retreat project to build larger communities of learners throughout the U.S. The Shabbaton program provides resources for participants to start conversations in their own local communities. In FY22 the retreat was once again canceled due to Covid restrictions and illness.
$611 spent1% of program spendingTorah of the Door: Activities to engage non-Jewish members of the Jewish community in conversations with Jewish traditions identifying classical values and insights that confirm their investment in a Jewish family and communal life. This program did not hold any sessions in FY22 due to Covid and illness.
$611 spent1% of program spendingUmanot ("the arts"): Interdisciplinary learning projects in which a group of artists learn a classic Jewish text on a theme of artistic merit and produce art related to that theme. This program did not hold any sessions in FY22 due to Covid and illness.
$611 spent1% of program spendingGeneral Community Education & Engagement: Activities to build communities of learners through discussion groups, text study, and structured programs of study. Programs includeadvising and directing Interfaith learning retreats and a day-long learning retreat on themes related to living with loss. Discussions continued on Zoom and were designed for rabbis and communities to share intensive learning and companionship while enriching them in their approach to and understanding of a theme. Sessions took place regularly in FY22 with an average of 40 people participating in each session. Planning and executing the programs took about 15 hours per week.
$36,681 spent66% of program spendingBeyond Belief: A project designed to emphasize active aspects of citizenship within the Jewish community. In its monthly programs, Beyond Belief sets belief into the larger community contexts of belonging and behaving. Beyond Belief is an extended series on belief and practice relating to the end of life and a year-long study of the theme, Resilience, Renewal, and Resurrection. This program did not hold any sessions in FY22 due to Covid and illness.
$611 spent1% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,631.
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 2018 to 2019, from $90k to $47k (−47%).
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.
99% of Sicha’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
David Reed
Board President
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $12k → $13k.
3 of 4 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 Sicha’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
Sicha leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Sicha.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of Sicha'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Sicha's revenue fell 72% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,731 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like Sicha
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sicha: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Sicha?
- Sicha (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($27,250). 2 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 Sicha have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $57,250 in grants to Sicha, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sicha?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $27,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sicha find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 4 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