Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
West Hartford, CT · EIN 06-0655482. Reported 166 grants totalling $17.4M to 36 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 Federation of Greater Hartford, 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. 36 distinct organizations, with 47% 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. 94% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above 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 $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $11,000 and $62,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $4,596,712. 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 | $8,172,105 | 11 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc | West Hartford, CT | $1,560,500 | 10 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Joyce D & Andrew J Mandell Greater Hartford Jewish Community | West Hartford, CT | $1,348,828 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford | West Hartford, CT | $1,062,048 | 27 | 5 | 2024 |
| Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc | West Hartford, CT | $1,034,952 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| New England Jewish Academy | West Hartford, CT | $1,018,503 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | New York, NY | $602,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford | West Hartford, CT | $511,500 | 13 | 5 | 2024 |
| Voices of Hope | West Hartford | $329,250 | 11 | 5 | 2024 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Storrs, CT | $227,000 | 10 | 5 | 2024 |
| Hebrew Home and Hospital Inc | West Hartford, CT | $165,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Association for Community Living | Bloomfield, CT | $162,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation Association of Connecticut | Hartford, CT | $149,909 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chabad House of Conn Inc | West Hartford, CT | $97,906 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Camp Laurelwood Inc | Madison, CT | $89,600 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Manchester Advisory | Manchester | $85,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| P E F Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $85,000 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bnai Brith Youth Organization | Washington, DC | $62,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mikvah Bess Israel of Greater Hartford Inc | West Hartford, CT | $62,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Israel National Council for the Child Inc | Bethesda, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emunah of America Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shalem Foundation | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Isr Ael | New York, NY | $44,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Fund of Israel | Cedarhurst, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Atid | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anti-Defamation League | New York, NY | $28,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Orr Shalom Inc | Janesville, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yaysh Inc | Glastonbury, CT | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| U S Friend of Yad Ezrah | Monsey, NY | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Shalva Israel Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dignity Grows Inc | Hartford, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Lifeshield Inc | Boynton Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tzohar Israel Foundation | Woodmere, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Hartford | West Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
19 of 36 (53%) 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 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.
- Jewish Federations of North America
EMERGENCY FUNDING DUE TO WAR IN ISRAEL - Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford
TO SUPPORT, BUILD, ENHANCE AND PERPETUATE JEWISH LIFE AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY - Solomon Schecter Israeli Student Support
SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL STUDENTS - Sparks to Life
EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT IN ISRAEL
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 of 36 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 | 28 | $2,113,949 | $22,500 |
| 2021 | 26 | $2,028,769 | $23,500 |
| 2022 | 29 | $2,253,966 | $26,000 |
| 2023 | 49 | $8,075,453 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 34 | $2,893,964 | $16,900 |
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
55% 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
31 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 74 grants totalling $5,292,699 to Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford. That is 54% of the 57 funders we can see giving to it. Those 31 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a federated giving programme.
19 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micah Philanthropies | Massachusetts | $2,295,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Edgemer Foundation Inc | Florida | $1,248,250 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family | Connecticut | $1,109,518 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jmz Charitable Foundation Inc | Connecticut | $302,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Shilberg Family Foundation Inc | Florida | $102,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Liberty Bank Foundation Inc | Connecticut | $60,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Teagle Foundation | New York | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hochberg Family Foundation | Illinois | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Driesman Krichavsky Charitable Foundation Trust | Connecticut | $16,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Antonacci Family Foundation | Connecticut | $15,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 31.
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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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 $25,000 -- 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 Greater Hartford'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 33 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: 333 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT, 06117.
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