Jews of Color Initiative
Berkeley, CA · EIN 86-2742246. Reported 53 grants totalling $1,296,360 to 45 organizations across tax years 2022-2023, 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 Jews of Color Initiative, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R05) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 15% 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. 28% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $24,850; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $104,860. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Good Fund Inc | Richmond, CA | $196,400 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ammud the Joc Torah Academy Inc | New York, NY | $104,860 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Aleph-Alliance for Jewish Renewal | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Forward Assoc Inc | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kol Tikvah | Woodland Hls, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Join for Justice Inc | Boston, MA | $42,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Institute for Jewish and Community Research | San Francisco, CA | $37,550 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Reboot Inc | Longmeadow, MA | $36,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Community Stewardship Inc | Madison, WI | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bend the Arc-a Jewish Partnership for Justice | New York, NY | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Womens Theatre | Santa Monica, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pluma Poetica Del Arte Inc | New York, NY | $24,850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Uri Ltzedek | Scottsdale, AZ | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Painted Bride Art Center Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $22,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bd of Regents of Univ Wisc | Madison, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fjc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hinenu the Baltimore Justice Shtiebl | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Womens Archive Inc | Auburndale, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mosaic Visions | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beloved Builders Inc | Northampton, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Custom and Craft Jewish Rituals Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Embrace Community Programs | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Food Society Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Learning Venture | Jenkintown, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Svara | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Jewish Federations of North America Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tzedek America Program | Encino, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Atlanta Jews of Color Council | Atlanta, GA | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Sisters Village Inc | Newark, DE | $14,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History | Philadelphia, PA | $13,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nefesh La | Los Angeles, CA | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Sephardi Federation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Community Action | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Film Institute | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jews in All Hues | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jumpstart Labs | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Keshet Inc | Newton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Educ Cent Inc | Newton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Moving Traditions | Elkins Park, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Synagogue Project | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Los Angeles, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tawonga Jewish Community Corporation | San Francisco, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
7 of 45 (16%) received money in more than one year over the 2 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.
- Aleph Alliance for Jewish Ren
EXEC. LEADERSHIP/FISCAL SPONSORSHIP - Uri Ltzedek
EXEC. LEAD. GRANT/COMM. ENRICH - Bd of Regents of Univ Wisc
Shalom Curriculum Project - Mosaic Visions
EXEC. LEADERSHIP/OPER. SUPPORT - Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters
ONLINE MIKVEH GUIDE TRAINING - New Synagogue Project
LEADERSHIP/COMM./NEEDS ASSESSMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 26 | $848,460 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 27 | $447,900 | $15,000 |
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
33% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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 $15,000 -- 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 California.
- 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 Jews of Color Initiative's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). 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 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: 1569 Solano Avenue 474, Berkeley, CA, 94707.
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