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Jewish Community Association of

Scottsdale, AZ · EIN 45-3910992. Reported 70 grants totalling $5,781,064 to 37 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

37organizations funded
$31,750median reported grant
$5,781,064granted, 2021-2024
56%of grantees funded again the next year
31%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Jewish Community Association of, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropy and voluntarism organization (NTEE T50).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 31% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $31,750. Half of what it reported fell between $12,000 and $83,000; the smallest was $6,232 and the largest $493,001. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
24 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
17 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
4 grants
$250,000 Or More
9 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center IncScottsdale, AZ$1,803,735442024
Jewish Family and Childrens Service IncPhoenix, AZ$1,055,041442024
The Jewish Federations of North America IncNew York, NY$718,300332024
East Valley JccChandler, AZ$339,136442024
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater PhoenixScottsdale, AZ$260,345442024
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus LifeTempe, AZ$231,951332024
Jewish Agency for Israel-North American CouncilNew York, NY$217,183332024
Jewish Community Association of Greater PhoenixScottsdale, AZ$123,000112021
Gesher Disability Resources IncScottsdale, AZ$121,502442024
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee IncNew York, NY$115,651222023
Hillel Foundation at the University of ArizonaTucson, AZ$80,308112021
Friends of United Hatzalah IncNew York, NY$69,475112023
Jewish Agency for IsraelIsrael, NY$65,651112021
Valley Beit MidrashScottsdale, AZ$57,750332024
Federation Senior Rides Program (envoy America)Tempe, AZ$55,569112021
Congregation Beth Israel of Phoenix ArizonaScottsdale, AZ$55,075212024
Phoenix Holocaust AssociationScottsdale, AZ$45,540222024
Yeshiva of PhoenixPhoenix, AZ$44,011332024
Onetable IncNew York, NY$40,970112022
Pardes Jewish Day School IncScottsdale, AZ$33,916222022
Merkos Chabad-Lubavitch OrganizationPhoenix, AZ$32,750322024
Camp Ramah in California IncLos Angeles, CA$27,860112024
Arizona Jewish Historical SocietyPhoenix, AZ$20,000212022
Jewish Community Campus of GreaterScottsdale, AZ$20,000112022
Phoenix Jewish Free Loan AssnScottsdale, AZ$20,000112021
Jewbelong IncNew York, NY$18,000112024
Phoenix Hebrew Academy IncPhoenix, AZ$12,976222022
Chabad House IncPhoenix, AZ$12,000112024
Beth El Congregation and Hebrew SchoolPhoenix, AZ$10,000112024
Bnai Brith Youth Organization IncWashington, DC$10,000112022
Congregation Kol AmiScottsdale, AZ$10,000112024
Minkoff Center for Jewish Genetics Dba Jewish Genetic Diseases CenterScottsdale, AZ$10,000112021
Temple ChaiScottsdale, AZ$10,000112024
Temple SolelParadise Vly, AZ$10,000112024
Chabad of North PhoenixPhoenix, AZ$9,000112024
Scottsdale ArtsScottsdale, AZ$7,500112023
Dignity Grows IncHartford, CT$6,869112024

15 of 37 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Religion
6 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Arts & Culture
3 orgs
International Affairs
2 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Youth Development
1 org
Medical Research
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202116$1,344,650$54,034
202217$1,338,618$29,795
202313$1,710,067$69,475
202424$1,387,729$17,770

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

78% of its giving went to organizations in Arizona. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Arizona
$4.5M
New York
$1.2M
California
$28K
District of Columbia
$10K
Connecticut
$7K

Down to the city

Scottsdale, AZ
$2.6M
Phoenix, AZ
$1.2M
New York, NY
$1.2M
Chandler, AZ
$339K
Tempe, AZ
$288K
Tucson, AZ
$80K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Jewish Community Foundation of28 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund28 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc19 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust13 shared recipientsArizona Community Foundation11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $31,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Arizona.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Jewish Community Association of's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 26 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 12701 N Scottsdale Road Suite 201, Scottsdale, AZ, 85254.

EIN 45-3910992 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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