Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation
Youngstown, OH · EIN 82-2189237. Reported 104 grants totalling $15.8M to 53 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for religion (NTEE X12).
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 70% 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. 64% 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 $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $32,098; the smallest was $5,044 and the largest $3,988,679. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youngstown Area Jewish Federation | Youngstown, OH | $11.1M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youngstown Area Jewish Cemeteries Association | Youngstown, OH | $1,401,224 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Congregation Ohev Beth Sholom | Youngstown, OH | $628,645 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Temple El Emeth | Youngstown, OH | $404,616 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Jewish Federations of North America Inc | New York, NY | $382,492 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youngstown State University Foundation | Youngstown, OH | $356,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Commission for Jewish Education of Greater Youngstown | Youngstown, OH | $160,947 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Funders Network | New York, NY | $150,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| YWCA Mahoning Valley | Youngstown, OH | $132,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Youngstown Edison Incubator Corporation | Youngstown, OH | $100,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tree of Life Congregation | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley | Youngstown, OH | $83,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $72,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oh Wow the Roger & Gloria Jones Childrens Center for Science & Tec | Youngstown, OH | $50,100 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Akron Children's Hospital Mahoning Valley | Boardman, OH | $44,644 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past | Youngstown, OH | $42,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation | Youngstown, OH | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Cleveland | Cleveland, OH | $29,883 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Temple De Hirsch Sinai | Seattle, WA | $28,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| P E F Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Building Blocks Child Center Inc | Hermitage, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Henry H Stambaugh Auditorium Association | Youngstown, OH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Golden String Inc | Youngstown, OH | $23,347 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Foodbank of the Mahoning Valley | Youngstown, OH | $22,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vets Helping Heroes Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation | Youngstown, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Students Motivated By the Arts | Youngstown, OH | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $16,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation of Mahoning Valley | Youngstown, OH | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of | New York, NY | $15,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Classroom 2 Capitol Inc | Youngstown, OH | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Working Group | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hondros College of Nursing | Columbus, OH | $14,667 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yekirei Hatzalah Yehuda and Shomron Inc | Teaneck, NJ | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| All Children Learn Differently School | Youngstown, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florida Lions Eye Clinic Inc | Bonita Spgs, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ohio Pharmacists Foundation | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Potential Development Program | Youngstown, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Youngstown Symphony Society Inc | Youngstown, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kent State University | Kent, OH | $9,724 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | Girard, OH | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Heart Association | Pheonix, AZ | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ruth and Norman Rales Jewish Family Services Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc | Sarasota, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social Justice Partners Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yellow Brick Place | Youngstown, OH | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ballet Western Reserve Inc | Youngstown, OH | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Butler Institute of American Art | Youngstown, OH | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $5,044 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
25 of 53 (47%) 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.
- Youngstown Area Jewish Federation
TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE ACTIVITIES WHICH FALL WITHIN OUR MISSION.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 42 of 53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $5,733,647 | $17,500 |
| 2022 | 29 | $4,580,397 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $3,089,740 | $15,353 |
| 2024 | 32 | $2,423,088 | $12,833 |
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
93% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. 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 Ohio.
- 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 Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 505 Gypsy Lane, Youngstown, OH, 44504.
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