California · Nonprofit
The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc
The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,177 to it, the largest being BLAVATNIK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($32,677). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $14k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $31k
What The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc does
Mission
Foster recognition, knowledge, and understanding of Jewish history and culture with special emphasis on the importance of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice, Italy as a historic crossroad of international Jewish experience.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
1. Residencies and seminars in the Venice Ghetto as opportunities to stimulate and disseminate creative endeavors and scholarly research. A. Living Under Water: A Jewish Exploration of Climate Change.In 2018, six international artists were invited to Venice to initiate creative responses to the challenges of climate change rooted in Jewish culture and tradition. As well, they were asked to take into account that Venice is often seen as the canary in the coal mine for climate change. They were also challenged to develop an electronic means to communicate their production. The artistic elements were created during the Venice residencyThe three-week residency was led by Israeli artist Andi Arnowitz. The graphic art was created at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice. The first outcome was the creation and virtual publication, Living Under Water: A Jewish Exploration of Climate Change, a 54-page color Zine, print and electronic. http://www.livingunderwater.org/. With Arnowitz as curator, an exhibition of the prints was included in the Jerusalem Biennale, October 10 to November 28, 2019. Search for additional museum venues has been interrupted by the pandemic. Funds for…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $90k to $29k (−68%).
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.
81% of The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $33k.
From the IRS filings of The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc’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 Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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: 2018 100% · 2019 98% — 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 Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc?
- The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,177 to it, the largest being BLAVATNIK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($32,677). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $39,177 in grants to The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc?
- BLAVATNIK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,677 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Venice Center For International Jewish Studies Inc 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2019–2021), and the filings of 3 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