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COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON INC

EIN 04-2103559 BOSTON, MA

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Revenue 2024
$357,344,529
Expenses 2024
$312,060,149

Program services were 94.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T700
Classification
1000
Street
126 HIGH ST FL 2

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. is the following: * To sustain and enrich the quality of Jewish life in the Greater Boston Jewish community by creating and enhancing a sense of common purpose. * To plan and coordinate the delivery of Jewish communal services. * To strengthen the bond between the Greater Boston Jewish community and Israel and world Jewry through humanitarian programs and by actively promoting people-to-people relationships. * To respond appropriately to the social and human welfare needs of the community as a whole. * To maintain and broaden the organizational, human, and financial resources essential to achieving these goals.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Combined Jewish Philanthropies' (CJP) mission is to inspire and mobilize the diverse Boston Jewish community to engage in building communities of learning and action that strengthen Jewish life and improve the world.

  • CJP's mission is to inspire and mobilize the diverse Boston Jewish community to engage in building communities of learning and action that strengthen Jewish life and improve the world. CJP works to achieve this mission through its three focus areas, which are: helping to provide compassionate care to our most vulnerable and enhancing community security through our Strong, Safe, Caring Community work; engaging, educating, and inspiring - especially our next generation - with compelling, dynamic Jewish Life and Learning; and investing in our homeland, its people, and Israel education and travel experiences with Israel Connection and Rebuilding. Strong, Safe, Caring Community: In times of crisis and in everyday moments of need, our Strong, Safe, Caring Community work ensures that no member of our Jewish community faces challenges alone. Through strategic grants to organizations serving vulnerable populations, we provide a safety net for families struggling with poverty, mental health challenges, and life transitions, while our Center for Combating Antisemitism and Communal Security Initiative protect our community from rising threats and hatred. This dual approach recognizes that true community strength requires both compassionate support for those in need and proactive protection for all who call Greater Boston's Jewish community home. Jewish Life and Learning: Our Jewish Life and Learning work creates pathways for connection, growth, and belonging across every stage of Jewish life. Whether we're supporting the professionals who lead our Jewish day schools and community organizations, nurturing the next generation of Jewish leaders, fostering early education and arts and culture, or ensuring every child can experience the transformative power of Jewish summer camp, our work builds and supports the infrastructure that makes vibrant Jewish life possible. Israel Connection and Rebuilding: We support the safety, security, and well-being of Israeli society through strategic grantmaking, Israel education and connection, and emergency response. Our Israel-focused initiatives include: emergency relief funding, providing humanitarian assistance for relocation, mental health services, trauma, displacement, and rebuilding efforts; strategic investments in Israeli civil society organizations that strengthen democratic institutions and social cohesion; and educational and engagement programming that connects Boston's Jewish community to Israel through travel experiences, meaningful dialogue, and relationship-building.

    Expenses $57,969,554 · Grants $47,520,421 · Revenue $1,104,066

  • Donor Advised Funds & Other Programs: In addition to CJP's major program services, CJP makes grants to many nonprofit organizations through its donor advised funds (DAF), supporting education, healthcare, and social service agencies locally and nationally. Other Programs include designated grants where CJP provides direct support to charitable organizations both domestically and overseas separate from the DAF program.

    Expenses $237,817,509 · Grants $226,910,562 · Revenue $142,131

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Aron Ain

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Caroline Sherman

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Wolk

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laurene Sperling

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Adam Eisenberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adam Koppel

    Director (Partial Year As of 09/01/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alan Crane

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Klein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • B Andrew Zelermyer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bea Wilderman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brett Ponn

    Director (Partial Year As of 09/01/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Campe Goodman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Caroline Dorn

    Director (Partial Year As of 09/01/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Catharyn Gildesgame

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darren Black

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Aronoff

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Fine

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily Leventhal

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Harvey Beker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Howard Rubin

    Director (Partial Year Until 08/31/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Izhar Armony

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jessica Myers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Orkin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joshua Margolis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kimberly Creem

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 4 related

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $357,344,529
    Expenses
    $312,060,149
    Contributions
    $253,039,266
    Grants paid
    $274,430,983
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $317,660,066
    Expenses
    $370,218,429
    Contributions
    $252,839,244
    Grants paid
    $338,090,390
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $231,139,551
    Expenses
    $208,677,956
    Contributions
    $175,352,778
    Grants paid
    $173,924,863

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $385,498,468
    Expenses
    $207,725,039
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,042,708,435

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $352,454,344
    Expenses
    $167,507,883
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,055,080,912

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $218,872,687
    Expenses
    $236,866,465
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,695,752,334

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,263,899
    Expenses
    $208,884,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,722,662,336

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $316,382,023
    Expenses
    $178,872,508
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,621,577,857

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related partnerships on its 2024 return

  • Jewish Community Endowment Pool LLP

    Excluded · Investments · MA · 71.84% owned · share of income $69,181,534 · share of assets $1,558,347,069 · general or managing partner

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • Charitable Remainder Trust (3)

    Trust · Provide annuities to donors and remainder gifts to CJP · MA

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.