New York · Nonprofit
THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC
THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 483 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,828,984 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($106,601,342). 266 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$2.4B
Recipients
356
Contributions on record
$2.3B
Donors on record
610
Payments out are 1.04x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
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.
- Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation Incshared funders
- Bernard & Nita Trugman Charitable Trustportfolio match
- The Kressel Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 166 funders to 259 funders, grant income rose $36M → $62M.
132 of 483 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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: $1.9B from 113 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc); $763k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Jewish Federations of North America Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 483 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
70% of THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC'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 $133M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 36 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306M arriving through sponsors registered in 38 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.
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 483 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Bernard & Nita Trugman Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kressel Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nathaniel D and Golda Berlin Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nemet Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Incshared fundersNY · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Koret Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
- The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fundshared fundersCA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Circle of Service Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 117 organizations that share your funders
- The Snider Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New Yorkshared fundersNY · backs 83 organizations that share your funders
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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $58.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$58.3M
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Jfbp LLC · disregarded
- United Israel Appeal Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: 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.
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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC?
- THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 483 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,828,984 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($106,601,342). 266 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 483 organizations giving $438,828,984 in grants to THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC, 266 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $106,601,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 483funders 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