Jewish Foundations Giving 20% to Jewish Causes
Last week I wrote a post on Jewish Foundations Giving Only 20% to Jewish Causes.” A number of people were nice enough to comment and e-mail to let me know that when the report talked about Jewish organizations it referred to organizations founded by a Jew, and not necessarily those run as a Jewish community organizations.
Report on Jewish Foundational Giving
I’ve now read the report in the original, “A Study of Jewish Foundations” (of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research) and see that authors Gary Tobin and Aryeh Weinberg clearly define their terms. (My source did not.)
You can see the list of foundations below, sourced from pages 12 and 13 of the report.
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Presenting: The List
In no way is my presentation of this list intended to pass judgment on any of these foundations. Rather, consider this a user friendly guide to major foundations doing important work in the Jewish community and promoting Jewish values in the world.
Keep in mind that a small percentage of total funds given by a large foundation could still amount to a great deal of actual support. For example, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation donates 52% of their annual funds to Jewish causes, but with a budget of $2 billion, this equals $52 million.
Here are the top Jewish foundations organized by the percent their organization gives to Jewish causes.
75%- 100%
50%- 75%
- Russel Berrie Foundation, supporting the Jewish people, religious pluralism, medical research, and elevating the profession of sales
- Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation, Inc, promoting social justice and human rights
- Steinhardt Philanthropies, revitalizing Jewish education, religion, and culture, especially for marginalized Jews
- Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation (unknown), read more about one of the Taub Foundation’s gifts to university medical research
- Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc, assisting the poor
25%- 50%
- Leslie H. Wexner Charitable Fund, strengthening Jewish leadership in North America and Israel
- Koret Foundation, improving life and society in the San Francisco Bay
- Skirball Foundation (unknown), read more about Audrey Kenis-Skirball (z”l)
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, bolstering Jewish families and communities, strengthening the disadvantaged communities of Chicago
- Helen Bader Foundation, Inc., improving the quality of life in diverse communities through a broad range of programming
- Marcus Foundation, Inc. (unknown), providing funding for children, especially those with developmental disabilities, medical research, and Jewish community causes (read more about Bernie Marcus)
- Richard and Rhoda Goldman Philanthropies, spearheading environmental protection and musical and Jewish causes
- Tisch Foundation, Inc. (unknown), supporting the arts, the beautification of New York, and helping those with substance abuse problems
- Walter and Elise Haas Fund, building a healthy and vibrant society with social responsibility
- Sidney Kimmel Foundation, supporting cancer research, the performing arts, and the Jewish community
Below 25%
- David Geffen Foundation (unknown), supporting medical research, especially AIDS, and the performing arts (read more about David Geffen)
- Milken Family Foundation, advancing medical research and educational leadership
- Nathan Cummings Foundation, strengthening democracy and social justice in the Jewish tradition
- Abramson Family Foundation, forwarding consciousness based education and world peace
- Michael Redstone Charitable Trust (unknown)
- Charles H. Revson Foundation, supporting funding for urban affairs, education, biomedical research, and Jewish education and philanthropy
- Bernard Osher Philanthropies, providing university scholarships, funding for medical research, and opportunities for lifelong learning
- Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation (unknown), read about Evelyn Lauder’s pioneering efforts to support breast cancer research and awareness (including developing the pink ribbon campaign)
- Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation, advancing arts, culture, health, and Jewish causes in Boston and Palm Beach
- Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation (unknown), providing support for environmental research and helping to combat addiction and substance abuse
- Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation, helping support the arts, education, health and human services, the environment, and Jewish federated giving
- Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, promoting positive change for families in low income communities
- Jeffrey M. and Barbara Picower Foundation (unknown), giving to universities
- David Lerner Foundation, driving human potential, working with nonprofits to promote dialogue, creativity, and sustainable solutions to personal evolution and human advancement
- Rady Family Foundation (unknown), supporting business and university management, hospitals, universities, and children’s welfare (read more about the Rady Family Foundation)
- Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, addressing the issues of children living in urban poverty
- Sandler Family Supporting Foundation (unknown), advancing international human rights
- Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Foundation, seeking mutual respect among diverse communities for all people for the betterment of society
- Pritzker Foundation (unknown), giving to children’s health and welfare and universities (read more about Penny Pritzker)
- Soros Fund Charitable Foundation, promoting democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform
- Weingart Foundation, addressing the needs of the under-served through social, educational, and community programming
Foundations Choosing Not to Give to Jewish Causes
Tobin and Weinberg recorded the following foundations as giving 0% to Jewish causes in 2004/2005, when their records were taken: the Weil Family Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation (with $2.5 billion in assets), and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
Links
If you liked this post, you might enjoy these:
- “Slingshot Releases ‘Resource Guide to American Jewish Innovation, 2007- 2008′”
- “Trends in Philanthropy: Predicting the Future of Nonprofit Fundraising”
- “Daniel Sieradski Assumes New Position as JTA’s Director of Digital Media”
And of course, the Slate 60, documenting the top philanthropists of the year is always of note.
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Photo sourced from JTA’s original article on foundations here.
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It is interesting that Israel is not seen as the primary donation destination. At least not as much as it was in the past. Maybe it is a good sign of new Israeli prosperity and less of a need for philanthropy. But I keep seeing signs on the roads here “A million people hungry in silence” (translated from Hebrew) ~ maybe with less tourism from world Jews, less awareness of what is going in in Israel on a daily life, we can call it one contributor. Anyway, there are still lots of Israelis who do not have the ‘good life’. Now that Israel is a little quieter in the press, specially in the Jewish press, maybe it’s time to make some noise. AmiV [http://israeltomorrow.blogspot.com] ~
ps. Israel is certainly getting to be a nicer place all the time, but there are still some people who need help.
First of all Israel is a terrible place for new immigrants, specialy for adults. The poverty is everywere,you just have to live here and not judge from an forghin viewpoint.
Somewhere far away there is a planet where you find your information. In a recent study, Israelis reported being the 7th happiest societ in the world. Their economy is booming!
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Thanks for this list. Just a quick edit: “For example, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation donates 52% of their annual funds to Jewish causes, but with a budget of $2 billion, this equals $52 million.” 52% of $2 billion is $520 million. (probably a typo!)
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Where in the world are you? What else can you tell me about the specific situation that will better help me answer your question (i.e. are you specifically inquiring about Jewish organizations)? Your first step should be to inquire with local social service organizations.
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Are there any foundations who would assist an organization that I work for, we are trying to give the religious Jews tools to all reach out and share our heritage with those who are unaffilliated, and not just leave it to the proffesionals?
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I am looking for a philanthropic foundation which helps in the performing arts dedicated to Jewish Theatre. Specifically, the ‘Liliana Moraru Santa Cruz Jewish Theatre’, now in its third season. We are the first and only Jewish Theatre established as a community theatre – on the California central coast.
I would appreciate help in connecting to any foundation interested in our venture.
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I am looking for donors to the project in Israel: Implementation of mentoring for new immigrants and unemployed university graduates who work in the sub – Employment and support the process of integration into the labor market in the long run.
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Discussion with Moishela (with his family)
A Handicapped child
3 Cheshvan 5775 (Oct 26, ’14)
“The Noose Is Getting Tighter”
The world has absolutely gone mad, absolutely mad. Murder, accidents, weather related deaths, riots, plagues, Mamash a very scary world. Every day something new. Every day something more bloody. Every day more and more deaths. Every day we become more and more frightened.
The noose is getting tighter and tighter around us, and the worst part about it is that no one seems to feel it except a very few. Very few people feel it at all. Either they don’t want to feel it so they ignore it, or they are really in some very strong daze or under some kind of drug that keeps them from seeing what is happening. It doesn’t even have to be medication, although I would imagine that in the western world at least 50% of the people are on some kind of psychiatric medication. They drug themselves on Gashmius on materialism so they won’t know, so they won’t feel, so they won’t be afraid. What is happening is frightening because the world is beginning to feel the effects of being ruled by a group of absolute maniacs, of people that are evil to their bone. They are planning crazy things and thinking they can get away with it, thinking that they can turn the world into their private domain, that they can take the Jewish people and turn them into Goyim. Their greatest goal that they want to achieve is they want to destroy, to kill nine-tenths of the world population. What can I tell you? We Yidden are being targeted. Our faith is being targeted, and we must, must come back to Hashem in order to stop it.
I have dreams, I have such frightening dreams every night. I see cities being blown up. I see all kinds of terrible things happening. I see wild men killing and plundering. I see planes shooting and bombing. I see people dying of thirst and hunger, and I cry and I cry. I am so nervous and so afraid, not for myself – for my family and for Am Yisroel, how terrible, how terrible. I’m not even giving you the details of what I see but it’s very very frightening! I don’t know how to pass on to my fellow Jews through what I am writing, the difficult things we still have to face.
How can I beg? How can I plead with Am Yisroel to open their eyes, to get rid of the Gashmius, to stop looking like street people, to start looking again like Jews, to start acting again like Jews? I’m talking to the Frum. What else can I say to you? What else can I do? If you read over everything I’ve said to this point, you should already be doing Teshuva in the strongest way, but I see in the streets that people are buying and buying things that are not necessary. I see that they are making fancy parties and fancy Chasunas and things that are not necessary. I see and I feel that children are growing up to love, to lust after Gashmius. I see how we are eating like gluttons, but have become very very weak in our Mitzvos and it makes me cry. Now we are facing the most horribly difficult time in history and we’re messing around with nonsense.
What can I say? What can I do? I’m only a young person with an old head and an old heart, but I can tell you this: you better straighten up fast. You better get your act together because the suffering is going to be unbelievable if not, and if you take yourself in hand then you can save yourself so much suffering, so much misery. Do you understand? People, do you understand? You can save yourselves so much suffering, but if not it will be unimaginable suffering. I’m begging you. I’m begging you. Put your trust in Hashem not in people, not in science, not in chief rabbis, or in heads of state. Put your trust only in Hashem, only in Hashem, only in Hashem. We have to be like the Yidden that left Mitzrayim and spent forty years in the desert. We have to be like that. We have to have that kind of trust of Hashem without question, no matter what happens, no questions asked. We must know in our hearts and our souls that it’s all for our good, it’s to help us go higher, to help us reach the next stage of Creation which is Olam Habah of Moshiach Tzidkainu, and our journey upwards, to total salvation, to completely become one with Hashem. That’s what I have to say.
I’m afraid that my words have become useless because people have become used to listening to them, even though they are harsh and they are strong and people see around them terrible things happening, but they are getting used to it. They want their Gashmius more than they want to listen. So I will say a few more sentences to make sure you understand. Please, please do Teshuva. Change your way of life. Become Tzniusdik, the men and the women. Trust Hashem in everything. Don’t go looking outside of your Daled Amos for the Yeshua. The Yeshua is only with Hashem, only with Hashem. In the near future we are going to witness very bloody happenings, very frightening and very bloody. Here in Eretz Yisroel there will be more riots and more trouble, but in Chutz La’aretz it will be really bad, really bad.
Between now and Chanukah we are going to have a rush of incidents all over the world, that will put great fear into most of the population of the world. You won’t know where to look first, up, down, left, right. Everywhere there will be trouble big big trouble. Hashem is trying to show us that the inevitable must be and that means that we are coming very close to the Geula Sheleima, and the hardest part of this birth is now and therefore you can either have an easy birth or a very difficult one. It’s your choice.
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My name is Steve Lurie, I am 74 years old, married for 49 years, father of 4, grandfather of 7 and Jewish.
In my life I have experienced the good in being Jewish and the bad. This addresses the “bad” of being Jewish.
My first experience with anti-Semitism began in 1966 while serving in the Army at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. I was sitting on a foot locker in my skivvies along with 3 other recruits playing cards when I noticed one of the soldiers staring at my dog tags. Back in the day the religion of the soldier was on the dog tags along with his name, blood type and serial number. Asking him what he was staring at he said “are you a Jew?” When I told him I was, he shook his head and said “my daddy told me that Jews had horns on their heads and hooked noses”. I told him that “yes, I am a Jew and you can see I do not have horns on my head or a hooked nose so I guess your daddy told you wrong.”
It was at that moment I realized how ignorance plays a significant role in the understanding of the Jewish people. I will now address how this ignorance can be changed.
I think it is time that the Jewish people give up ownership of the holocaust. We should never forget but we should stop using the holocaust as the means to define the Jewish people. I suggest instead that we begin to educate the masses of the contributions made by the Jewish people for the betterment of the world.
In order to get this message across, I suggest we build Jewish contribution centers that address that issue. This should not be done in arrogance but merely as an educational forum just like the holocaust museum does to educate the horrors the Jews experienced in Europe during World War II. In fact, these centers should be attached to the holocaust museums so the visitors can view first what the world did to the Jews and then to visit the attached contribution center to see what the Jews have given in return.
It is my hope that through education my grandchildren and their children and their children’s children could live in a world where the Jew is finally recognized as a race of people that have consistently worked to benefit mankind and to not be maligned as they are today.
One final thought: I suggest you question your family, friends and co-workers with a simple question: Do you know the contribution made by Jonas Salk? Their response just might surprise you.
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Salk I truly to be remembered and admired. But what about all the brilliant spiritual, holy, G-d fearing Rabbis and laymen, since the time of receiving the Torah on Mt Sinai. How tragic that so many secular Jews quote the likes of Spinoza, Freud and Einstein as jews to be remembered, whilst all they were, were free thinking clever idiots.
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