Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago

Organization Overview

Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago is located in Chicago, IL. The organization was established in 1949. According to its NTEE Classification (T70) the organization is classified as: Federated Giving Programs, under the broad grouping of Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations and related organizations. This organization is an independent organization and not affiliated with a larger national or regional group of organizations. Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago is a 501(c)(3) and as such, is described as a "Charitable or Religous organization or a private foundation" by the IRS.

For the year ending 06/2021, Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago generated $169.4m in total revenue. This represents relatively stable growth, over the past 6 years the organization has increased revenue by an average of 3.6% each year. All expenses for the organization totaled $160.4m during the year ending 06/2021. While expenses have increased by 8.2% per year over the past 6 years. They've been increasing with an increasing level of total revenue. You can explore the organizations financials more deeply in the financial statements section below.

Since 2015, Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago has awarded 5,130 individual grants totaling $840,007,462. If you would like to learn more about the grant giving history of this organization, scroll down to the grant profile section of this page.

Mission & Program ActivityExcerpts From the 990T Filing

TAX YEAR

2021

Describe the Organization's Mission:

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FEDERATION BRINGS JEWISH CHICAGO TOGETHER TO SUPPORT HUMAN SERVICES, ADVOCATE ON KEY ISSUES AND CONNECT PEOPLE TO JEWISH LIFE AND COMMUNITY.

Describe the Organization's Program Activity:

THE FEDERATION'S LARGEST ENDEAVOR IS TO ALLOCATE FUNDS TO A NETWORK OF NEARLY 70 AGENCIES IN THE CHICAGO AREA THAT PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO 500,000 CHICAGOANS OF ALL FAITHS, INCLUDING: HOT MEALS AND GROCERIES, UTILITY AND RENT ASSISTANCE, PRESCRIPTIONS AND MEDICAL CARE FOR IMPOVERISHED FAMILIES; JOB TRAINING AND PLACEMENT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT OF WORK; THERAPEUTIC SCHOOL AND SPECIALIZED CARE FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES; SUPPORT SERVICES FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS; ASSISTED LIVING, SPECIALIZED ALZHEIMER'S CARE AND TRANSPORTATION FOR SENIORS; RESPITE SERVICES FOR CAREGIVERS OF FRAIL SENIORS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; COUNSELING, PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION SERVICES FOR TROUBLED TEENS; AND AN ENTIRE CONTINUUM OF PREVENTION AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN CRISIS.BECAUSE THE JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO AND THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ARE CLOSELY LINKED IN NUMEROUS WAYS (COMBINED BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SHARED PROFESSIONAL AND SHARED OFFICE SPACE), AND BECAUSE JUF PROVIDES AN ANNUAL, MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR ALLOCATION TO THE JEWISH FEDERATION, WE MEASURE AND REPORT OUR PROGRAM AND SERVICE RESULTS JOINTLY FOR THE COMBINED JUF/FEDERATION ENTERPRISE, WHICH ARE SUMMARIZED BELOW:PROVIDING HELP AND HOPE TO PEOPLE IN NEEDWHEN COVID-19 TRANSFORMED LIFE AS WE KNEW IT, CREATING HUMAN NEEDS GREATER IN SCOPE THAN WE HAD SEEN IN OUR LIFETIME, JUF SWIFTLY BECAME A LIFELINE FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. - 36,000 PEOPLE RECEIVED FOOD ASSISTANCE THROUGH JUF-FUNDED MEAL AND GROCERY PROGRAMS.- 30,000 PEOPLE RECEIVED $16.6 MILLION IN EMERGENCY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM JUF AGENCIES IN 2021 - A 40% INCREASE IN DOLLARS OVER 2020. - 88% MORE EMERGENCY DOLLARS WERE PROVIDED FOR HOUSING AND 52% MORE EMERGENCY DOLLARS WERE PROVIDED FOR FOOD COMPARED TO LAST YEAR. - 2,300 HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS RECEIVED $10.8 MILLION IN EMERGENCY FINANCIAL AID FROM JUF AGENCIES IN 2021 - A 25% INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR. - 36,000 PEOPLE RECEIVED MENTAL HEALTH CARE - A 65% INCREASE OVER 2020.- RESPITE SERVICES WERE DOUBLED FOR CAREGIVERS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES- 35,000 PEOPLE BENEFITED FROM EXTRA SUPPORT FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS, PRESCHOOLS AND SUMMER CAMPSWITH ACCELERATING THREATS AND ATTACKS AGAINST JEWISH INSTITUTIONS, THERE WAS ALSO INCREASED DEMAND FOR JUF'S SUPPORT IN PROVIDING SECURITY FOR JEWISH CHICAGO.- 100 JEWISH GROUPS ASSISTED TO DATE IN GETTING ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO STRENGTHEN THEIR SECURITY, INCLUDING $20 MILLION IN U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY GRANTS AND $6 MILLION IN STATE CAPITAL SECURITY GRANTS. - 88 CHICAGO-AREA JEWISH GROUPS RECEIVED $1.6 MILLION IN JUF MATCHING GRANTS IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, WHICH LEVERAGED AN ADDITIONAL $2.3 MILLION IN MATCHING FUNDS, RESULTING IN NEARLY $4 MILLION OF NEW OR IMPROVED PHYSICAL SECURITY PROTECTING 37,000 PEOPLE. ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY IN JEWISH LIFE JUF CONNECTED YOUNG FAMILIES TO JEWISH IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.- 11,000 LOCAL CHILDREN GET FREE, MONTHLY JEWISH BOOKS THROUGH PJ LIBRARY & PJ OUR WAY. - 8,000 YOUNG FAMILIES PARTICIPATED IN PROGRAMS AND EVENTS THROUGH JUF AND ITS AGENCIES LAST YEAR - 1 IN 5 OF THEM FOR THE FIRST TIME.- JUF AND ITS AGENCIES HOSTED 300 EVENTS FOR YOUNG FAMILIES THROUGHOUT THE YEARDYNAMIC, JUF-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS ENGAGED TEENS, COLLEGE STUDENTS & YOUNG ADULTS IN JEWISH LIFE.- 7,400 TEENS ENGAGED JEWISHLY THROUGH PROGRAMS RUN BY JUF AND JUF-SUPPORTED AGENCIES - AN 87% INCREASE OVER 2020. - 5,500 YOUNG ADULTS ENGAGED IN PROGRAMS PROVIDED BY JUF AND ITS AGENCIES IN 2021 - HALF OF THEM FOR THE FIRST TIME. - 2,300 (36%) OF ALL JEWISH COLLEGE STUDENTS IN ILLINOIS PARTICIPATED IN HILLEL IN 2021.- 1,500 COLLEGE STUDENTS ATTENDED 54 PRE-ISRAEL PROGRAMS AND EVENTS HELD ON 16 COLLEGE CAMPUSES ACROSS ILLINOIS- 1,200 YOUTH RECEIVED $1 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS AND VOUCHERS FOR JEWISH SUMMER CAMP.JUF CONTINUED TO HELP MAKE JEWISH EDUCATION MORE AFFORDABLE. - 4,300 INDIVIDUALS RECEIVED $45.6 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS & TUITION ASSISTANCE IN 2021 TO HELP THEM AFFORD JEWISH PRESCHOOL, DAY SCHOOL, GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS.- 3,500 LOCAL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL STUDENTS - 76% OF THOSE ENROLLED - RECEIVED SCHOLARSHIPS AND/OR TUITION ASSISTANCE FROM JUF-SUPPORTED DAY SCHOOLS, WHICH TOTALED $43.8 MILLION IN 2021.- 500+ PRESCHOOLERS - 1 IN 5 OF THOSE ENROLLED - RECEIVED $1 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS AND SUBSIDIES FROM JUF AND JCC TO HELP MAKE THEIR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION POSSIBLE. AND JUF ENGAGED COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF ALL AGES.- 48,000 COMMUNITY MEMBERS ATTENDED OUTREACH & EDUCATION PROGRAMS THROUGH JUF AGENCIES IN 2021, FROM SUPPORT GROUPS AND WORKSHOPS TO GENETIC EDUCATION AND JEWISH ENRICHMENT. - 22,000 ADULTS ATTENDED 275 LOCAL JEWISH PROGRAMS PROVIDED BY JUF AND JCC CHICAGO.- 9,300 OLDER ADULTS PARTICIPATED IN PROGRAMMING ACROSS JUF AGENCIES.


REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT SERVICES PROGRAM - THE JEWISH FEDERATION ADMINISTERS COMPREHENSIVE REFUGEE SOCIAL SERVICES ON BEHALF OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. THE ILLINOIS REFUGEE SOCIAL SERVICE CONSORTIUM IS COMPRISED OF 10 DIRECT SERVICE AGENCIES COMMITTED TO PROVIDING QUALITY REFUGEE SOCIAL SERVICES INCLUDING: EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE, CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT, CASE MANAGEMENT, K-12, YOUTH MENTORING, SERVICES TO OLDER REFUGEES (SENIORS), MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING, DATA COLLECTION, REPORTING VIA AN ONLINE SALESFORCE DATABASE.


HILLELS OF ILLINOIS - FEDERATION SUPPORTS A VAST ARRAY OF JEWISH ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS AT COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS IN ILLINOIS. THE HILLEL PROGRAM PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR JEWISH STUDENTS TO EXPLORE AND CELEBRATE THEIR JEWISH IDENTITY AT 16 DIFFERENT COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN ILLINOIS, AS WELL AS THROUGH HILLEL REGIONAL PROGRAMS. HILLEL'S VISION IS A WORLD WHERE EVERY JEWISH STUDENT IS INSPIRED TO MAKE AN ENDURING COMMITMENT TO JEWISH LIFE, LEARNING AND ISRAEL. HILLEL SEEKS TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF JEWISH STUDENTS SO THAT THEY MAY ENRICH THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE WORLD. HILLEL SEEKS TO CREATE A PLURALISTIC, WELCOMING AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR JEWISH COLLEGE STUDENTS: AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO GROW INTELLECTUALLY, SPIRITUALLY AND SOCIALLY. INCREASINGLY, HILLEL MUST HELP JEWISH STUDENTS COUNTER CAMPAIGNS BY THE BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, AND SANCTIONS MOVEMENT TO DELEGITIMIZE AND DEMONIZE ISRAEL, AND TO ADDRESS THE CONCOMITANT INCREASE IN CAMPUS ANTI-SEMITISM.


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Outside Vendors & Contractors

Vendor Name (Service)Compensation
Rsm Us Llp
Audit & Tax Services
$679,032
Rosov Consulting Llc
Consulting Services
$129,973
Seyfarth Shaw
Legal Services
$122,210
Stellar Technology Solutions
Technology Services
$120,000
Campus Kosher Catering
Catering Services
$111,841
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Financial Statements

Statement of Revenue
Federated campaigns$501,720
Membership dues$0
Fundraising events$0
Related organizations$56,370,158
Government grants $506,988
All other contributions, gifts, grants, and similar amounts not included above$79,858,675
Noncash contributions included in lines 1a–1f $19,908,307
Total Revenue from Contributions, Gifts, Grants & Similar$137,237,541
Total Program Service Revenue$3,543,509
Investment income $1,465,905
Tax Exempt Bond Proceeds $0
Royalties $0
Net Rental Income $0
Net Gain/Loss on Asset Sales $25,337,244
Net Income from Fundraising Events $0
Net Income from Gaming Activities $0
Net Income from Sales of Inventory $0
Miscellaneous Revenue$0
Total Revenue $169,353,912

Grants Awarded

Over the last fiscal year, Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago has awarded $145,405,968 in support to 764 organizations.

Grant RecipientAmount

Chicago, IL

PURPOSE: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Grants - Operating Support

$26,028,677

JFMC FACILITIES CORPORATION

Org PageRecipient Profile

Chicago, IL

PURPOSE: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Grants - Operating Support

$16,846,465

JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES

Org PageRecipient Profile

Chicago, IL

PURPOSE: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Grants - Operating Support

$14,846,190

JOAN DACHS BAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL

Org PageRecipient Profile

Chicago, IL

PURPOSE: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Grants - Operating Support

$11,515,923

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO

Org PageRecipient Profile

Northbrook, IL

PURPOSE: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Grants - Operating Support

$10,922,145

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO

Org PageRecipient Profile

Chicago, IL

PURPOSE: Grants from Donor Advised Funds - Operating Support

$6,689,256
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Grants Recieved

Over the last fiscal year, we have identified 1 grants that Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago has recieved totaling $100.

Awarding OrganizationAmount
Henry & Belle Mann Charitable Foundation

Highland Park, IL

PURPOSE: UNRESTRICTED

$100
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Endowment Analysis

Beg. Balance$424,866,280
Earnings$56,713,648
Net Contributions$22,284,939
Other Expense$59,854,370
Ending Balance$444,010,497

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