Michigan · Nonprofit
The Jewish Wisdom Foundation
The Jewish Wisdom Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,120 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($130,100). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $470k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $430k
- Net assets
- $99k
What The Jewish Wisdom Foundation does
Mission
To create a dynamic community of Jews, nourished by mutual respect and honest, open dialogue, challenging stereotypes, invigorating curiosity, plumbing the depths of their great heritage and empowering a revolution in Jewish identity. In New York City, the Foundation operates Kii.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Friday Night and Festival Meals: The Kii Center serves as a welcoming community space, open every Friday night and during major festivals. We host large-scale gatherings and meals for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur Break-Fast, Sukkot, Purim, Passover, and Shavuot. These events offer thousands of meals for young professionals, blending the comfort of a home-like atmosphere with the lively environment of the Kii Center.
$92,653 spent$150,408 earned by the program32% of program spendingEducational Programs: Kii offers a range of educational opportunities, including classes, large seminars, small group discussions, and one-on-one sessions, all designed to present Judaism in a way that is engaging, meaningful, and personal. These programs foster a lasting connection, relevant to today and into the future. Offerings include a weekly women?s class, a men?s session, and a Business Ethics series.
$69,740 spent$112,806 earned by the program24% of program spendingCommunity and Social Events: Kii is committed to fostering meaningful connections among young Jewish adults by hosting a variety of social gatherings throughout the year. Our events range from singles mixers and seasonal celebrations to parties marking both Jewish and American holidays, such as Sukkot, Thanksgiving, Chanukah, and Purim. Activities include arcade nights, casino-themed evenings, ice sculpting, and cooking competitions. We hold large monthly events for hundreds of young professionals as well as weekly gatherings that offer a more focused, intimate setting?all in a welcoming, inclusive environment where young Jews can connect and socialize.
$66,875 spent$108,106 earned by the program23% of program spendingSocial Action Initiatives: Kii's social action projects aim to cultivate a spirit of giving. We believe this value should be instilled, nurtured, and encouraged, ensuring that current and future generations embrace this foundational principle of Judaism. We organize events and volunteer opportunities for young Jewish adults in New York, which this year have included: delivering soup to vulnerable people on the streets of NY, support for victims of terror attacks, a ?Build a Board? project to create and donate skateboards to children in foster care, aid for Holocaust survivors, care packages for essential workers including doctors, EMTs, police, and firefighters, and a partnership with Tomchei Shabbos to provide food relief for 1,000 families.
$60,147 spent$98,705 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $289,415.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $38k to $104k (+174%).
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.
100% of The Jewish Wisdom Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $7k → $103k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 The Jewish Wisdom Foundation’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 Wisdom Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 Wisdom Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 46% · 2022 54% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of The Jewish Wisdom Foundation's funders are still giving 2 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
87% of The Jewish Wisdom Foundation'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 $56k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $374k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
The Jewish Wisdom Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Jewish Wisdom Foundation
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Jewish Wisdom Foundation: 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 The Jewish Wisdom Foundation?
- The Jewish Wisdom Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,120 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($130,100). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Jewish Wisdom Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $430,120 in grants to The Jewish Wisdom Foundation, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Jewish Wisdom Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $130,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Jewish Wisdom Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 15 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