Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation

Analysis

Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Omaha, NE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2025. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation reported income of $12.6m and spending of $7.8m, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $6.9m to $12.6m (+83%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 117%. Over the whole period it spent 58% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within NE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Foundation of Elmira Corning and the Finger Lakes ($12.6m), Rockwood Leadership Institute ($12.6m) and Richland County Foundation of Mansfield ($12.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 67% of the total. At year end it held assets of $125.1m against liabilities of $13.7m, net assets of $111.4m.