North American Jewish Federations — Small & At-Risk Community Map

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ADL 2025 headline

6,274 antisemitic incidents nationwide in 2025 — 33% lower than 2024 but the 3rd-highest year on record since ADL began tracking in 1979.

Assaults still rose. Three Jewish people were murdered (DC Capital Jewish Museum, Boulder Run for Their Lives, PA Governor’s residence firebombing). 300+ assault victims.

Small communities in the line of fire: a Chabad Jewish Center in Punta Gorda, FL was firebombed in 2025 — a small Jewish community covered by a regional federation at distance. Exactly the kind of exposure this kit is built to surface.

Policy lever: ADL secured a $30M increase to the federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program for FY2026 — the funding mechanism small/at-risk federations can mobilize against.

Source: ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2025.

Security partners

Show SCN regions (overlay)

Secure Community Network coverage — overlay on any view to see how SCN regions overlap the federation footprint.

Capital cities

Highlight federations in a capital city (overlay)

28 of 145 federations sit in their state, provincial, or the U.S. federal capital — direct proximity to the legislature that funds programs like the state NSGP.

Universities & campus life

Show Hillel-tracked campuses (overlay)

559 North American universities with a known Jewish student population — sized by that population, colored by federation coverage, ringed red where ADL graded campus climate D/F.

Filters

Size tier Territory scope Country Priority (click to toggle)

Critical High Moderate Lower

Legend — vulnerability

Critical (score ≥ 60)

High (40–59)

Moderate (22–39)

Lower (< 22)

Marker size ∝ Jewish population. Heat layer weighted by Jewish population.

Most at-risk (top 20)

Legend — security view

≥ 5.0 incidents / 100k (2024)

3.0–5.0 / 100k

1.5–3.0 / 100k

< 1.5 / 100k

No data (Canada)

Marker color = ADL incidents / 100k (state, 2024). Popups also show FBI reported anti-Jewish hate crimes / 100k where available.

ADL = all reported antisemitic incidents (incl. non-criminal). FBI = law-enforcement-reported hate crimes; agency participation varies, so FBI counts run far lower. Two lenses on the same exposure.

Sources: ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2024; FBI Crime Data Explorer 2024 (9 states wired; national total 1,938 anti-Jewish hate crimes, 2024). Remaining states pending.

Legend — ADL trend 2024→2025

+5% or worse (rising)

−4 to +4% (roughly flat)

−14 to −5% (modest decline)

−29 to −15% (clear decline)

≤ −30% (steep decline)

No 2025 data (pending / Canada)

2025: 6,274 incidents nationwide, down 33% YoY but assaults still rising (3 fatalities, 300+ victims). Top-10 states verbatim; other states pending.

Source: ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2025 (published 2026-05-06).

Legend — growth (10‑yr)

Strong growth (≥ +15%)

Growth (+5 to +15%)

Stable (−5 to +5%)

Decline (−15 to −5%)

Steep decline (< −15%)

Modeled % change in Jewish pop ~2015–2025. documented tag = study/strong evidence; modeled = regional migration pattern. Verify vs. Berman DataBank.

Legend — value

High-Value (score ≥ 65)

Promising (50–64)

Stable (38–49)

Declining (< 38)

Value = demonstrated growth + strategic leverage: growing communities anchoring large / isolated / underserved key areas score highest. Declining communities get no leverage bonus. Adaptive-capacity half of the definition is held as a future qualitative field.

Legend — SCN regions

SCN program hub / Regional Threat Center

Approx. coverage area (illustrative)

Click a hub for advisor + contact. Direct advisor contacts are not public; route via SCN Duty Desk 844-SCN-DESK (24/7).

Legend — universities

Campus inside a federation's territory — size = Jewish student population

Campus with no federation coverage nearby — a gap

ADL Campus Antisemitism Report Card grade of D or F

Source: Hillel International "Find a Hillel" directory (self-reported enrollment); ADL grades disclosed only where independently confirmed in press coverage — a partial subset, not a full campus audit.

Legend — capital cities

Federation headquartered in a state, provincial, or the U.S. federal capital

Gold ring highlights the federation's marker on top of any view. Click through for the capital badge in its detail panel.

Data note. Jewish population figures are estimates aligned to the American Jewish Year Book (2023) / Berman Jewish DataBank and should be verified against the live DataBank. Head-of-security contacts are intentionally blank and flagged “verify via SCN” (Secure Community Network). Executive-director names pending a public-research enrichment pass.

Sources

Jewish population — American Jewish Year Book 2023 / Berman Jewish DataBank
Antisemitism incidents — ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents (2024, 2025)
Hate crime data — FBI Uniform Crime Reports
Federation capacity indicators — JFNA Annual Report / local 990 filings
Security posture — Secure Community Network (SCN) regional assessments
Universities — Hillel International "Find a Hillel" directory (self-reported Jewish student enrollment, 559 campuses); campus antisemitism climate grades from ADL's Campus Antisemitism Report Card, confirmed via press coverage for a subset of campuses (21 of 559) — not a full audit

Value score — campus bonus

Federations hosting a university with meaningful Jewish enrollment get a strategic-leverage bonus of up to 10 points, scaled to the square root of total Jewish student population across all matched campuses in their territory (diminishing returns — a flagship campus doesn't dominate the score). Campus location is matched to the nearest federation by straight-line distance, the same approximation method used for the isolation_mi metric; 21 campuses had no federation within the dataset and are shown on the map as coverage gaps, not scored.

Vulnerability score (rebuilt 2026-07-06)

0–100 composite index across 7 weighted factors, each ranked among all 145 federations to avoid outliers (e.g. UJA-NY's population) distorting everyone else's score: population sparsity 25%, ADL incident level + 2025 YoY trend (blended) 20%, federation size/capacity 15%, territory served (area/40,000 sq mi, capped) 15%, low Jewish density 15%, university exposure 6% (scaled to Jewish student population in territory, plus a penalty for any campus with a disclosed D/F antisemitism climate grade), capital-city profile 4%. Priority thresholds are recalibrated, not fixed, so the same number of federations land Critical/High as before the rebuild — the ranking's shape is preserved even as the underlying formula changed. Scores are research estimates; treat as directional, not definitive.

Priority tiers (recalibrated to preserve prior tier sizes: 26 Critical, 36 High, 28 Moderate, 55 Lower)

Critical (≥59.5) · High (47.8–59.4) · Moderate (39.3–47.7) · Lower (<39.3).

Value score — capital-city bonus added 2026-07-06: federations headquartered in a state/provincial/federal capital get a flat +4 on top of the existing growth, territory/isolation, and university bonuses.

Isolation — two distances, on purpose (added 2026-07-06)

The Isolation row measures distance to the nearest federation with ≥25,000 Jews — a threshold meant to capture substantial Jewish infrastructure (day schools, kosher options, security resources), not just the nearest neighbor. That means a real, sizeable community just under the line gets skipped: San Antonio's Isolation reads "189 mi to Houston," even though Austin (20,000 Jews) sits only 74 miles away. To keep this transparent rather than silently skip it, every popup now also shows Nearest federation: the closest federation of any size, no threshold. The two numbers are meant to be read together, not as a contradiction.

Last updated: June 2026 · Research: Enrico Ravenna (JFAR) & Jessie Dowsakul (Columbia Jewish Federation)

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