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Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc

Wilmington, DE · EIN 51-0064315. Reported 148 grants totalling $8,402,081 to 78 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

78organizations funded
$14,060median reported grant
$8,402,081granted, 2020-2023
54%of grantees funded again the next year
27%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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 78 distinct organizations, with 27% 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. 54% 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 $14,060. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $57,809; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $751,391. 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
27 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
70 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
17 grants
$250,000 Or More
8 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
The Jewish Federations of North America IncNew York, NY$2,282,415442023
The Bernard and Ruth Siegel Jewish Community Center of Delaware IncWilmington, DE$880,153442023
Albert Einstein Academy IncWilmington, DE$534,460442023
Kristol Center for Jewish Life at the University of Delaware IncNewark, DE$508,023442023
Congregation Beth Shalom IncWilmington, DE$393,134442023
Chabad-Lubavitch of Delaware IncWilmington, DE$392,615442023
Milton and Hattie Kutz Home IncWilmington, DE$389,608332023
Jewish Family Services of Delaware IncWilmington, DE$345,203442023
American Israel Education Foundation IncWashington, DC$311,000442023
Lafayette CollegeEaston, PA$310,000222021
Heifer Project InternationalLittle Rock, AR$135,000332023
Friends of the Israel Defense ForcesNew York, NY$112,800222023
Hadassah Foundation IncNew York, NY$100,360112022
Simon Wiesenthal Center IncLos Angeles, CA$90,078112023
Orthodox Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth Congregation IncWilmington, DE$86,162442023
Jewish Federation of Greater PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$85,750222022
Jewish National Fund -Keren Kayemeth Leisrael- IncRockville Ctr, NY$81,986332023
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund IncNew York, NY$76,000332022
Congregation Kol ChaverimDavie, FL$75,000112021
American Jewish World Service IncNew York, NY$72,000442023
Chabad at Ucf IncOrlando, FL$69,000112023
Holocaust Center for HumanitySeattle, WA$57,049442023
Americans for Ben-Gurion University IncNew York, NY$52,643442023
The Shareholder Commons IncNorthampton, MA$50,000112020
Congregation Beth EmethWilmington, DE$47,956442023
United Way of Delaware IncWilmington, DE$47,375222021
Washington Institute for Near East PolicyWashington, DC$41,000442023
Craigs Pantry & Outreach Program Nfp IncPlantation, FL$40,000222021
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA IncNew York, NY$40,000442023
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic MedicinePhiladelphia, PA$40,000332023
Auxiliary of the Milton & Hattie Kutz Home IncWilmington, DE$33,758112021
The Mesivta High School of Great PhiladelphiaBala Cynwyd, PA$30,000332022
Africa 2030Tampa, FL$29,892112022
Charles E Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington IncRockville, MD$29,892112022
United Jewish Fed Endow Fd Tr Rev 63418202Virginia Bch, VA$28,000222023
P E F Israel Endowment Funds IncNew York, NY$27,000112021
American Friends of Magen David AdomNew York, NY$25,000112020
Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher EducPhiladelphia, PA$25,000222023
Beth Sholom TerraceVirginia Bch, VA$20,000222023
Philadelphia Community KollelMerion Sta, PA$20,000222022
Ohef Sholom FoundationNorfolk, VA$18,550222023
Jcuc Blessing IncorporatedPowder Spgs, GA$18,000112023
Lander-Grinspoon Academy Solomon Sc Hechter Day SchoolNorthampton, MA$18,000112021
Chabad at the Shore IncVentnor, NJ$16,800222023
Temple Beth El IncNewark, DE$15,021222021
Faithful Friends IncNew Castle, DE$15,000112021
Food Bank of Delaware IncNewark, DE$15,000112020
Heifer International FoundationLittle Rock, AR$15,000112020
Community Orthodox MinyanPhiladelphia, PA$12,900112022
Christiana Care Health System IncWilmington, DE$12,500112020
Stanley and Kathleen Grumbacher Foundation IncNew York, NY$12,000112021
Delmarva Christian Schools IncGeorgetown, DE$11,790112023
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington IncNorth Bethesda, MD$11,000112023
Jewish Federation of Greater SeattleSeattle, WA$10,523222023
Brandeis UniversityWaltham, MA$10,000112023
Code Purple Kent CountyDover, DE$10,000112020
Community Legal Aid Society IncWilmington, DE$10,000112020
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus LifeBoca Raton, FL$10,000112023
Hunter College Foundation IncNew York, NY$10,000112021
Jewbelong IncNew York, NY$10,000112021
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the HolocaustNew York, NY$10,000112022
United Jewish Community of Broward County IncDavie, FL$10,000112023
World Jewish Congress American Section IncNew York, NY$10,000112021
University of DelawareNewark, DE$8,500112022
American Friends of Leket Israel IncTeaneck, NJ$7,500112023
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies IncWashington, DC$7,500112021
Ohr NaavaBrooklyn, NY$7,500112021
American Friends of Yeshiva Reishit Chochmah IncBrooklyn, NY$6,850112020
Jewish Historical Society of DelawareWilmington, DE$6,685112021
B Nai B RithWashington, DC$6,500112022
Muhlenberg CollegeAllentown, PA$6,100112022
Chabad Lubavitch of Delaware IncWilmington, DE$6,000112020
The Charity CenterLakewood, NJ$6,000112023
SUNY Maritime Foundation IncBronx, NY$5,500112021
Seaside Jewish Community IncRehoboth Beach, DE$5,050112020
Bnai Brith Youth OrganizationWashington, DC$5,000112020
Tidewater Jewish Foundation IncVirginia Beach, VA$5,000112020
United States Fund for UnicefNew York, NY$5,000112020

34 of 78 (44%) 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.

It also reported 1 group of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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 59 of 78 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.

Education
12 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
11 orgs
Religion
11 orgs
International Affairs
11 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202039$2,293,652$15,000
202137$2,044,405$15,000
202236$2,237,839$18,000
202336$1,826,185$11,395

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

45% of its giving went to organizations in Delaware. 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.

Delaware
$3.8M
New York
$2.9M
Pennsylvania
$530K
District of Columbia
$371K
Florida
$234K
Arkansas
$150K
California
$90K
Massachusetts
$78K

Down to the city

Wilmington, DE
$3.2M
New York, NY
$2.8M
Newark, DE
$547K
Washington, DC
$371K
Easton, PA
$310K
Philadelphia, PA
$164K

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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.

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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 $14,060 -- 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 Delaware.
  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 Federation of Delaware Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 36 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: 101 Garden of Eden Rd, Wilmington, DE, 19803.

EIN 51-0064315 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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