California · Nonprofit
THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION
THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,760,557 to it, the largest being ARIE AND IDA CROWN MEMORIAL ($2,750,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $76M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.4B
What The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation does
Program
The jim joseph foundation's emergent strategy supports bold new approaches to jewish life that reflect the identities, values, and needs of young jews today-especially those not engaged by traditional institutions. Through research, experimentation, and incubation, the strategy explores and advances ideas that broaden what jewish meaning and community can look like. Common era is the foundation's platform for this work. It brings these ideas to life through targeted initiatives, partnerships, and prototypes designed to reflect the diversity of contemporary jewish experience. In 2024, common era launched 18 research and experimentation projects, incubated 17 new initiatives, and debuted its website: www.commonera.org.
$5,207,203 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.6B to $1.3B (−16%).
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.
Board chair
David Agger
Chair/director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $1.4M.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH 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 SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.
Against its field
THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION?
- THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,760,557 to it, the largest being ARIE AND IDA CROWN MEMORIAL ($2,750,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,760,557 in grants to THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION?
- ARIE AND IDA CROWN MEMORIAL is the largest funder on record, with $2,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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