California · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,834,838 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ($1,277,375). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What University of Southern California Hillel Foundation does
Mission
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified opportunities for engagement and understanding tailored to students' special interests and needs, to support jewish interests and build jewish community within the university of southern california campus environment, and to develop jews who will make thetransition from campus to community as positive, identified jews with astake in the jewish future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hillel at usc strives to engage and support all jewish students who are away from home for the first time in their lives. Knowing that more than one of two students come from an interfaith household, we also support the many unaffiliated students along their jewish journeys through an exploration of their passions and interests as jews and as young adults. Through an intensive effort to get to know the broader jewish student body, we are better able to foster the meaningful jewishexperiences of our students.
$614,118 spent$43,539 earned by the program47% of program spendingHillel at usc creates a safe space for students to explore their jewish identities, embark in jewish learning experiences, and celebrate our jewish heritage. Our rabbinic team works with students through the celebration of jewish holidays, festivals and learning experiences.
$371,671 spentof which $25,386 as grants29% of program spendingHillel at usc views israel as a core element of jewish life and a gateway to jewish identification for students. We provide every jewish student with the opportunity to explore and build an enduring relationship with israel through our israel fellowship, support of pro-israel student groups, and taglit-birthright israel.
$312,560 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,298,349.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.4M to $6.3M (+16%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Thomas Schiff
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $525k → $634k.
14 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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.
How concentrated its funding is
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 27% · 2019 23% · 2020 35% · 2021 41% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — 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
47% of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
69% of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL 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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside California, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Usc Hillel Real Estate LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION?
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,834,838 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ($1,277,375). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,834,838 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION?
- JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA is the largest funder on record, with $1,277,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL 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.
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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 37 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