Jewish Federation of San Diego County
San Diego, CA · EIN 95-1319015. Reported 129 grants totalling $13.1M to 59 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. 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.
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 43% 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. 76% 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 $31,000. Half of what it reported fell between $11,500 and $62,059; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $2,312,092. 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 | $5,648,900 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $1,124,310 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Agency for Israel-North American Council | New York, NY | $807,125 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | New York, NY | $754,900 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lawrence Family Jewish Community Centers of San Diego County | La Jolla, CA | $635,763 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $518,900 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Secure Community Network Inc | Chicago, IL | $409,203 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kavod | Memphis, TN | $374,596 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Community Camp and Retreat Center Inc | San Diego, CA | $265,724 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $259,274 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Honeymoon Israel Foundation Inc | Dunwoody, GA | $220,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| San Diego Jewish Academy | San Diego, CA | $183,360 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Congregation Beth Israel | San Diego, CA | $128,630 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ken Jewish Community | San Diego, CA | $114,520 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | San Diego, CA | $113,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School | San Diego, CA | $109,675 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of Access Israel Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Impact Cubed | Encinitas, CA | $97,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| P E F Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Leichtag Foundation | Encinitas, CA | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Beit Berl College | San Diego, CA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Congregation Beth Am | San Diego, CA | $74,203 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kindness Initiative | La Jolla, CA | $69,090 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Jewish Committee | New York, NY | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Temple Solel of Northern San Diego County Inc | Cardiff, CA | $54,025 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Congregation Beth El of La Jolla | La Jolla, CA | $53,580 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Camp Ramah in California Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $48,300 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Seacrest Foundation | Encinitas, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friends of Hagal Sheli Inc | Dover, DE | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hebrew Free Loan of San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $37,950 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Temple Adat Shalom | Poway, CA | $34,483 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Temple Emanu El of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $33,502 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Temple Emanu-El | San Diego, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ohr Shalom Synagogue | San Diego, CA | $28,940 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Scy High Tech Inc | San Diego, CA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ujf Holdings Corp | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Congregation Tifereth Israel of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $17,940 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chabad Hebrew Academy | San Diego, CA | $16,860 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chabad Jewish Center of Oceanside | Vista, CA | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chai Preschool & Infant Center | Poway, CA | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Diego Community Kollel | San Diego, CA | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Congregation Adat Yeshurun | La Jolla, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Temple Beth Shalom of Chula Vista | Chula Vista, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Impactisrael Inc | Needham, MA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Torah High Schools of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $10,960 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Habonim Dror Foundation Inc | Huntington, NY | $10,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,557 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chabad of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Houston | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| International March of the Living Inc | New York, NY | $9,240 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Informing Change | Berkeley, CA | $8,775 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beth Jacob Congregation and Center | San Diego, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Congregation Dor Hdash | La Jolla, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bnai Brith Youth Organization Inc | Washington, DC | $7,380 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Jewish High Inc | San Diego, CA | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Chabad Lubavitch San Diego | San Diego, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
32 of 59 (54%) 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.
- San Diego Jewish Academy
SCHOLARSHIPS/SECURITY/LEADERSHIP - Temple Solel
YOUTH SERVICES/SECURITY/LEADERSHIP - Soille Sd Hebrew Day School
DAY SCHOOL ASSISTANCE/SCHOLARSHIPS - Temple Adat Shalom
YOUTH SERVICES/LEADERSHIP
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 59 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 | 25 | $2,762,698 | $20,850 |
| 2021 | 23 | $2,864,403 | $36,000 |
| 2022 | 39 | $3,033,116 | $35,000 |
| 2023 | 42 | $4,462,148 | $28,760 |
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
62% 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
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.
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 $31,000 -- 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 San Diego County'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 42 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 4950 Murphy Canyon Road, San Diego, CA, 92123.
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