Jewish Federation of South Palm
Boca Raton, FL · EIN 59-1945109. Reported 82 grants totalling $33.6M to 22 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 South Palm, 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. 22 distinct organizations, with 38% 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.
- How much its list changes. 95% 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 $55,000. Half of what it reported fell between $13,000 and $428,098; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $3,622,969. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $12.6M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Jewish Federations of North America Inc | New York, NY | $7,856,488 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ruth and Norman Rales Jewish Family Services Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $2,740,563 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $2,641,492 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Donna Klein Jewish Academy Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $2,560,677 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $1,515,374 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $1,110,033 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Katz Hillel Day School of Boca Raton Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $940,426 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Katz Yeshiva High School of South Florida Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $359,940 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Various Grants Under Reporting Threshold | Boca Raton, FL | $314,776 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Jewish Community of Broward County Inc | Davie, FL | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Birthright Israel | New York, NY | $136,850 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc | Sunrise, FL | $93,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bnai Torah Congregation | Boca Raton, FL | $73,950 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Boca Raton, FL | $73,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Various Grants Under 5000 | Boca Raton, FL | $59,715 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boca Raton Synagogue Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $44,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Temple Beth El of Boca Raton | Boca Raton, FL | $43,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America | New York, NY | $42,605 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hadar South Florida High School for Girls Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $36,300 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Recovery Center Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $36,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Congregation Bnai Israel of Boca Raton Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $29,175 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
21 of 22 (95%) 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.
- Jacobson Jewish Community Foundation
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN ACHIEVING ITS EXEMPT PURPOSE. - Jewish Federations of North America
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION BY PROVIDING GENERAL SUPPORT. - Various Grants Under Reporting Threshold
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATIONS IN ACHIEVING THEIR EXEMPT PURPOSES.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 of 22 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 | 21 | $7,418,106 | $55,000 |
| 2021 | 21 | $8,617,384 | $55,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | $9,098,577 | $69,257 |
| 2023 | 20 | $8,426,968 | $80,833 |
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
76% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. 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 $55,000 -- 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 Florida.
- 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 South Palm'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.
Address of record on the latest return: 9901 Donna Klein Blvd, Boca Raton, FL, 33428.
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