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YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC

YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,091 to it, the largest being LARA CLASSICS INC ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$194k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$103k
Net assets
$-162061
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Yiddishkayt Initiative Inc does

Mission

To promote jewish culture and arts to the community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Preserve a production of too jewish? To promote jewish culture. Produce productions highlighting jewish culture & experiences.

    $123,472 spent
    92% of program spending
  2. To promote, establish, and preserve jewish culture and cultural events.

    $10,692 spent
    8% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $134,164.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($175k)2018 Revenue 108 ($118k) Expenses 97 ($170k)2019 Revenue 121 ($132k) Expenses 66 ($116k)2021 Revenue 278 ($303k) Expenses 134 ($235k)2022 Revenue 172 ($188k) Expenses 124 ($218k)2023 Revenue 185 ($202k) Expenses 125 ($219k)2024 Revenue 177 ($194k) Expenses 113 ($198k)
2017201820192021202220232024
Revenue (177)Expenses (113)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $7k to $27k (+274%).

$428
$7k
$27k
$7k
$10k
$2k
$608
2017201820192021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 28% · 2022 39% · 2023 30% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

68% of YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$66k
’17
−$52k
’18
$16k
’19
$68k
’21
−$29k
’22
−$17k
’23
−$5k
’24
0.0
months of
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.

2021202220232024
Listed1111
Joined····
No longer listed····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $80k.

Funder
'18
'21
'22
'23
total
Lara Classics Incunclassified
$80k
funders
1
2
2
2

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE 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

YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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

100% 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 YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC.

78%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 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

YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.

MA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC?
YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,091 to it, the largest being LARA CLASSICS INC ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $103,091 in grants to YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC?
LARA CLASSICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YIDDISHKAYT INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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