Jewish Community Foundation of
Harrisburg, PA · EIN 23-1352587. Reported 147 grants totalling $8,067,160 to 62 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 Jewish Community Foundation of, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 62 distinct organizations, with 37% 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. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $19,086. Half of what it reported fell between $9,400 and $48,122; the smallest was $5,072 and the largest $822,177. 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 Greater Harrisburg | Harrisburg, PA | $2,993,073 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Service of Greater Harrisburg Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $717,407 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ohev Sholom Congregation | York, PA | $436,569 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Temple Ohev Sholom | Harrisburg, PA | $292,815 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Chisuk Emuna Congregation | Harrisburg, PA | $289,513 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, PA | $270,311 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Beth El Temple | Harrisburg, PA | $269,184 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Penn State University | University Park, PA | $257,753 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Jewish Home of Greater Harrisburg | Harrisburg, PA | $211,992 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Rabbi David L Silver Yeshiva Academy | Harrisburg, PA | $203,394 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Kesher Israel Congregation | Harrisburg, PA | $197,169 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $195,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | $183,775 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Temple Beth Israel | York, PA | $125,362 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Jewish Federations of North America Inc | New York, NY | $124,563 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| CASA Charter School Foundation | Harrisburg, PA | $107,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chabad-Lubavitch Congregation of Harrisburg | Harrisburg, PA | $93,046 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| North American Friends of Moed Inc | Woodmere, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ahold Delhaize USA Family Foundation Inc | Carlisle, PA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $57,083 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of the Capital Region | Enola, PA | $55,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | State College, PA | $55,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Keiruv Inc | York, PA | $54,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Beth El Temple | Harrisburg, PA | $52,946 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| United Way of York County | York, PA | $50,650 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Centre of York Pennsylvania | York, PA | $49,594 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $44,868 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anti-Defamation League | New York, NY | $38,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Congregation Ohev Sholom | Williamsport, PA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Williamsport Federation of Jewish Charities | Williamsport, PA | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School Inc | Baltimore, MD | $28,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Beth Am Synagogue | Baltimore, MD | $28,108 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Harrisburg Symphony Association | Harrisburg, PA | $27,638 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Central Pennsylvania Food Bank | Harrisburg, PA | $26,364 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Zaka North Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $25,680 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the Main Line Inc | Merion Sta, PA | $22,140 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| My Community Health Foundation | Basalt, CO | $21,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Congregation of Beth Israel | Lebanon, PA | $19,086 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jake Gittlen Memorial Golf Tournament | Mars, PA | $17,350 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chabad of Lancaster Inc | Lancaster, PA | $16,360 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $15,558 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Lgbt Community Center Coalition of Central Pa | Harrisburg, PA | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | Annapolis, MD | $15,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Keystone Human Services | Harrisburg, PA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Yeshiva Academy of Harrisburg Foundation | Harrisburg, PA | $12,400 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bps Foundation | Las Vegas, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc | Miami, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| International Fellowship of Christians & Jews | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Penn State Univ - Office of Giving | University Park, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pinnacle Health Foundation | Harrisburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jewish National Fund -Keren Kayemeth Leisrael- Inc | Rockville Ctr, NY | $8,260 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Union for Reform Judaism | New York, NY | $7,960 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Multiple Sclerosis Institute | Philadelphia, PA | $7,591 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Congregation Sha Are Shalom | Leesburg, VA | $7,326 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Accelerated Cure Project Inc | Waltham, MA | $7,267 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Learning Venture | Jenkintown, PA | $6,993 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leader Center for Active Life | Hershey, PA | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $6,410 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ohev Sholom Synagogue - Williamspor | Williamsport, PA | $6,287 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Arava Institute Ltd | Newton Center, MA | $5,860 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gratz College | Jenkintown, PA | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Historic B'nai Jacob | Middletown, PA | $5,305 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
34 of 62 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 37 of 62 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 32 | $1,140,351 | $16,946 |
| 2021 | 25 | $1,662,666 | $17,680 |
| 2022 | 28 | $1,499,307 | $17,816 |
| 2023 | 31 | $1,749,373 | $25,300 |
| 2024 | 31 | $2,015,463 | $15,096 |
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
91% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $19,086 -- 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 Pennsylvania.
- 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 Community Foundation of's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 31 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: 2000 Linglestown Road Suite 301, Harrisburg, PA, 17110.
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