Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
West Hartford, CT · EIN 06-0655482. Reported 132 grants totalling $14.5M to 34 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T700).
- How spread out its giving is. 34 distinct organizations, with 49% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 100% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $11,000 and $62,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $4,596,712. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Jewish Federations of North America Inc | New York, NY | $7,062,373 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc | West Hartford, CT | $1,216,500 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Joyce D & Andrew J Mandell Greater Hartford Jewish Community | West Hartford, CT | $1,058,282 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford | West Hartford, CT | $818,048 | 21 | 4 | 2023 |
| New England Jewish Academy | West Hartford, CT | $800,050 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc | West Hartford, CT | $790,050 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | New York, NY | $602,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford | West Hartford, CT | $399,500 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Voices of Hope | West Hartford | $244,000 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Storrs, CT | $177,000 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hebrew Home and Hospital Inc | West Hartford, CT | $165,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Association for Community Living | Bloomfield, CT | $132,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation Association of Connecticut | Hartford, CT | $115,409 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| P E F Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $85,000 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chabad House of Conn Inc | West Hartford, CT | $73,625 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Camp Laurelwood Inc | Madison, CT | $72,800 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Manchester Advisory | Manchester | $68,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bnai Brith Youth Organization | Washington, DC | $52,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Friends of the Israel National Council for the Child Inc | Bethesda, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emunah of America Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shalem Foundation | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mikvah Bess Israel of Greater Hartford Inc | West Hartford, CT | $47,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Isr Ael | New York, NY | $44,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Fund of Israel | Cedarhurst, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Atid | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Orr Shalom Inc | Janesville, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| U S Friend of Yad Ezrah | Monsey, NY | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anti-Defamation League | New York, NY | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Shalva Israel Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tzohar Israel Foundation | Woodmere, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Hartford | West Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yaysh Inc | Glastonbury, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
18 of 34 (53%) 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.
- Jewish Federations of North America
EMERGENCY FUNDING DUE TO WAR IN ISRAEL - Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford
TO SUPPORT, BUILD, ENHANCE AND PERPETUATE JEWISH LIFE AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 34 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 28 | $2,113,949 | $22,500 |
| 2021 | 26 | $2,028,769 | $23,500 |
| 2022 | 29 | $2,253,966 | $26,000 |
| 2023 | 49 | $8,075,453 | $25,000 |
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
58% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- 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 Greater Hartford'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 49 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: 333 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT, 06117.
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