World Jewish Heritage Fund Inc

Analysis

World Jewish Heritage Fund Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in New Canaan, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, World Jewish Heritage Fund Inc reported income of $226k and spending of $254k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $289k to $226k (-22%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, World Jewish Heritage Fund Inc sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Im Your Neighbor Books Welcoming Library ($226k), Panger Productions ($226k) and LHS Blue Belle Booster Club ($226k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2,970 against liabilities of $291k, net assets of -$288k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.