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American Jewish Committee
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $882,533 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,246,364 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,363,831 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $668k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $100,000 |
| American Friends of Rambam Medical Center | $100,000 |
| American Friends of Sheba Medical Center | $100,000 |
| KAVOD SHEF INITIATIVE | $85,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $83,171 |
| THINC Foundation | $50,000 |
| PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INC | $50,000 |
| The Giving Group Community GGC | $50,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $42,200 |
| American Friends of Galilee Medical Center | $28,262 |
| University of California Irvine | $20,000 |
| University of California Irvine | $20,000 |
| Jewish Agency for Israel | $20,000 |
| American Friends of Bar-Han Ilan University Inc(Bar-Ilan University in Isra | $19,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.3M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Grant for its activities in reconstructing communities damaged or destroyed by Hamas and the resulting hostilities. · Grant for Holocaust Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki. · grant in support of its activities to assist those who were victims of rape during the events of October 7, or those whose past trauma were reawaken by those horrific events.
Stated purpose: Grant for activities and Projects aligned with AJC and FISESP's mission and priorities.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of American Jewish Committee’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 24% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $450k · revenue -9%- JTJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA5× · 2017–2024 · $314k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue -21%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVAone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -62%
- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $408k · revenue +1%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -45%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…
The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…
The mission of the american friends of the u.s.-israel binational science foundation (afbsf) is to ensure the continuation of collaborative world-class scientific research by israeli and american scientists through the us israel binational…
The international fellowship of christian and jews is the leading non-profit building bridges between christians and jews, blessing israel and the jewish people around the world with, humanitarian care and life-saving aid.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Hagal Sheli Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva of Los Angeles Girls High School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ASSUTA ASHDOD HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds KAVOD ↗
- Who funds ZAKA NORTH INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds REUT USA ↗
- Who funds THINC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP ↗
- Who funds Bayit Brigade ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL RESCUE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUFLEHUN ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Federation of Greater Houston · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · National Philanthropic Trust · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Jewish Committee funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Cadena Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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