Ohio · Nonprofit
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS (Ohio) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,681,589 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ($2,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $24M
What The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus does
Mission
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus is a nonprofit human service agency offering a varied program that is jewish in nature. It is committed to enhancing the quality of individual and family life through the promotion of physical, intellectual, and spiritual wellness. It provides educational and cultural programs that reflect the jewish heritage, health related activities and many services to the community at large. Through its wide array of programs, The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus (jcc) pursues its mission of strengthening the individual, family, and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early childhood services division: the early childhood services (ecs) program serves over 390 children ages six weeks to pre-kindergarten at three sites. Play centered education is full of weekly activities, including singing, dancing, reading, cooking, and creative arts, as well as mastering pre-k skills. The children also learn traditional jewish values through jewish programming, such as nearly 18,000 hours of jewish and hebrew education, and celebrating over 650,000 hours of jewish holidays, traditions, and history with preschool families. Jcc preschools graduate over 85 students annually, who move on to kindergarten. 75% of the graduates continue to jewish learning opportunities, including day schools, religious schools, hebrew school, and jewish summer camps.
$8,779,894 spentof which $117,051 as grants$6,617,798 earned by the program64% of program spendingRecreation and wellness division: dedicated to health and fitness for all ages, the diamond family fitness center offers a full-service, state of the art fitness center, cardio & weight equipment, adult & youth exercise classes, sports recreation leagues, outdoor tennis, indoor and outdoor aquatics center, personalized health assessments, personal training, pilates reformer, silver sneakers (senior adult) classes & programs. Two gyms provide space for indoor soccer, batting cages, basketball tournaments, and dedicated preschool gym programs. The fitness center is open 7 days a week.
$3,173,631 spent$1,867,595 earned by the program23% of program spendingChildren, youth & camping (cyc) division: children & camping programs serve children in grades k - 7. Programs include an aca accredited summer day camp providing over 2,100 camper weeks at two sites and a state licensed latchkey program serving over 60 students per week. Jewish summer camp also includes special interest camps and a special needs program. 75% of jewish camp and afterschool participants continue jewish learning during the school year through day schools, religious school, or hebrew lessons.
$1,262,847 spentof which $32,752 as grants$876,634 earned by the program9% of program spendingAdult, arts, & education division conducts programs for adults, presents arts and cultural performances, a film festival, and displays arts and cultural exhibits.
$399,275 spent$2,580,114 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,615,647.
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.
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 $18M to $26M (+49%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Michael Klapper
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $67k → $1.1M.
9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Columbus). These are real filings, and they are not money THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS raised.
From the IRS filings of THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS’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 COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 25% · 2020 65% · 2021 49% · 2022 76% · 2023 90% — 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
57% of THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
53% of THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS'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 $2.2M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M 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.
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS?
- THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS (Ohio) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,681,589 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ($2,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,681,589 in grants to THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS?
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 30 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