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CIJE-STEAM High School Engineering Program
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Who can apply: Participating Jewish schools at the high school level in CIJE's network.
About Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education
to unlock the potential within every Jewish student in the United States. The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) is a tax-exempt non-profit organization founded in 2001 to enhance and enrich the quality of Jewish education throughout the United States. CIJE brings hands-on STEAM learning to more than 200 Jewish day schools and yeshivot across 18 states impacting thousands of students annually.
Focus Areas
K-12 Jewish educationSTEAM educationrobotics and design/fabrication programsteacher professional developmentcurriculum development and digital curriculum (iTaLAM)special programs (Holocaust education, Israel engagement)mobility initiatives (Go Baby Go)student entrepreneurship/innovation events
Who They Fund
Jewish K-12 studentsJewish day schools and yeshivot
About Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education
The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education centers its grantmaking on hands-on STEAM learning for Jewish day schools and yeshivot, with recent awards showing repeated support for school supply needs across multiple years. The largest recent grant listed is $107,990 to Hebrew Academy of Cleveland for supplies, and that same school appears twice at that amount in 2023. Other repeated awards also point to ongoing support rather than isolated gifts, including $92,554 to Hebrw Academy of Long Beach in both 2024 and 2025. The pattern extends across a network of Jewish K-12 schools in New York, California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and Ohio. CIJE was founded in 2001 and says it aims to enhance and enrich Jewish education throughout the United States. Its program work includes lower, middle, and high school offerings, Design FAB, Math Matters, teacher training, technology upgrades, mentorship, and events. The grants in the record align with that mission by helping schools obtain supplies that support classroom-based learning and school programming. Recipient names such as Yeshiva Darchei Torah, Yeshivah of Flatbush, and Ramaz Upper School show the mix of schools that receive support.
What Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Funds
In K-12 Jewish education, the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education gave $79,437 to Bnos Yisoel of Baltimore for supplies and $74,178 to Bais Yaakov High School of Baltimore for supplies. Those awards fit a broader school-support model that reaches day schools and yeshivot across grades and locations. Their grantmaking also touches New York-area schools with repeated supply grants. They gave $63,854 to Yeshiva of Central Queens for supplies in 2023, and $56,825 to Yeshivah of Flatbush for supplies in 2023. In another New York example, Ramaz Upper School received $15,491 for supplies. The foundation’s geographic span also includes schools outside the Northeast. Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles received $50,753 in 2024 and $50,743 in 2025, while Friends of Ji in Fort Lauderdale received $50,000 in 2023.
How Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Gives
Typical grants are modest and clustered around school supply support: the p25 is $6,846, the median is $9,182, and the p75 is $15,491. The recent record also shows several much larger awards, but the center of gravity is in lower five-figure or sub-$10,000 gifts. Recipients often appear across multiple years, which suggests repeated support rather than one-time funding; examples in the record include 2024-2025 and 2023 duplicates for the same schools. The foundation is a nonprofit organization and does not make program-related investments or fund individuals. Unsolicited applications are accepted through active programs.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$642K
Total Assets
$17.3M
Total Revenue
$8.6M
Total Expenses
$4.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $7K and $15K, with a median of $9K.
25th Percentile
$7K
Median
$9K
75th Percentile
$15K
Geographic Reach
Regional10 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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