Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,191 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($220,844). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $239k
- Net assets
- $25M
What The Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts does
Mission
Jcam maintains, preserves and restores jewish cemeteries and grave sites throughout massachusetts. Jcam owns and manages 124 cemeteries in massachusetts, which represents 56% of the jewish cemeteries in massachusetts. Jcam's mission includes a solution in perpetuity for both active and formerly abandoned cemeteries, providing a dignified final resting place for those interred in these cemeteries. Jcam also plays a role in the preservation of historic sites and historical and genealogical access to 175 years of history of jewish people and communities in massachusetts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Maintain cemeteries - since 1984, jcam has taken ownership for 115 abandoned and active jewish cemeteries, as well as managing nine independent jewish cemeteries. Jcam performs regular and seasonal maintenance for the cemeteries and grave sites as prescribed by jewish laws and customs. In addition, jcam pays attention to the security of these visible, vulnerable, and often remote, jewish sites. In so doing, the memories of the community's children, parents, grandparents and more distant ancestors are preserved for future generations of jewish families and historians.
$3,471,282 spent$4,882,451 earned by the program87% of program spendingRestore cemeteries - many jewish cemeteries fell into disrepair in theyears before jcam took responsibility for their maintenance. Each year,jcam has invested in the restoration of jewish cemeteries to improvesafety and enhance their sacred purpose for families and visitors.
$314,688 spent8% of program spendingSupport burials (community outreach) - many of the jcam cemeteries continue to be fully operational, with empty plots available for new families and family members. Jcam helps families make arrangements for their loved ones and helps provide for burials according to jewish laws and customs (on an as needed basis). Free graves and burials are provided for indigent people in the jewish community, as part of a commitment to helping those in need have proper and dignified jewish burial. Jcam partners with other community organizations in this mission.
$181,258 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,967,228.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $24M to $27M (+13%).
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: 2018 0% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $32k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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: $303k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jcam Charitable Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS raised.
From the IRS filings of THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS’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
THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 73% · 2023 77% — diversifying over time.
“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
92% of THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $221k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Jcam Charitable Foundation Inc · exempt
- West Beit Olam Cemetery Corporation · exempt
- South Beit Olam Cemetery Corporation · exempt
- Baker Street Cemeteries Roadway Association Inc · exempt
- East Beit Olam Cemetery Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS?
- THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,191 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($220,844). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $239,191 in grants to THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $220,844 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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