Inbound: where the money comes from
Each stop on the track is one fiscal year, and the bar standing on it is everything the organization took in that year. Green is gifts given outright, the closest the return comes to an annual campaign. Blue is gifts placed into donor-advised funds, which the organization holds while the donor keeps advising on where they go. Orange is program fees, and grey is everything else on the revenue page, mostly investment returns. In a year when markets fell, the grey part hangs below the track.
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Outbound: where the grant dollars went
Each cause is one line, named underneath its run with the dollars it carried and its share of all the grants. The lines are stacked by size, largest on top. Recipients are stops: money gets off at each one, so a line narrows as it goes and ends at its last stop. Money sent to the Jewish Federations of North America rides to a transfer in New York, where the national body keeps a part and sends the rest on. From there it joins the line of grants that name Israel directly, and the two ride together as one Israel line. Choose any line or stop to see every recipient behind it.
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Table view: every cause and every recipient
No itemized grants are on file for fiscal 2022 to 2024.
The whole fare: everything it spent
Grants are one part of what a federation does with its money. Each bar is a full year of spending. Blue left the building as grants, orange paid for programs it runs itself, purple is management and grey is fundraising. The return files grants under programs, so the usual program share of a federation counts every check it passes along.
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Neighboring systems: the twelve its own size
Each track is one measure. The white stops are the twelve organizations most like this one: the same kind of federation first, whether a hometown federation, a metro allocator or an operator, then nearest in money raised, and where possible with the same arrangement of a separate foundation holding the community's funds. The blue capsule is this one with its figure above it, and the orange tick marks the middle of the twelve. At the end of every track stands a signal, and the words beside it say whether this one sits higher than the twelve, lower, or in the middle. Higher means above at least two thirds of them, and lower means above a third or fewer. Where a measure has a better side, the signal is a traffic light: green on the better side of its neighbors, red on the worse side, yellow in the middle. Lower is the better side for overhead, for the cost to raise a dollar and for executive pay, and higher is the better side for growth in giving. The other rows are choices a community makes, such as how much to send to Israel or to its day schools. Their signals carry plain white lamps that only point: top for higher, bottom for lower.
The whole network: every one of its kind
The same measures against the whole field. Each thin tie across a track is one organization, so a dense stretch of ties is where most of them sit. The blue capsule is this one, the orange tick is the middle of all of them, and the signals are read against the upper and lower thirds of the field. Raw executive pay gets a white pointer here, because against organizations of every size it would mostly measure size. Pay per $100 raised keeps its traffic light.