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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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$3.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$537kReligion$481kArts & Culture$425kPhilanthropy$395kHealth$301kFood & Nutrition$169kEducation$136kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $882,533, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,246,364 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,363,831 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $668k
$42,200
Median grant
6
States reached
$335M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Friends of Sheba Medical Center$100,000
American Friends of Magen David Adom$100,000
American Friends of Rambam Medical Center$100,000
KAVOD SHEF INITIATIVE$85,000
JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$83,171
The Giving Group Community GGC$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INC$50,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc$50,000
THINC Foundation$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Jewish Family Service: $12k → 16%KAVOD SHEF INITIATIVE: $85k → 12%AMYY ISRAEL PREGULMAN: $84k → 12%Commonpoint Queens: $10k → 13%AFYA Foundation: $50k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC
TX
FL

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.

Region not stated$1.2M · 95% · 26 grants

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.

South America$61k · 5% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: Grant for activities and Projects aligned with AJC and FISESP's mission and priorities.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of American Jewish Committee’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 24%.

American Jewish Committeelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 65% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 14 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
46

Total granted

$2.2M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
-1%

Still filing today

71%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AF
    American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ
    2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +176%
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $136k · revenue +122%
  • AC
    ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $62k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -62%
  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
    one grant, 2022 · $408k · revenue +1%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -45%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
2
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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4
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

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…

International
5
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
6
Sherit Isroel
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7
Physicians for Palestine
Health
8
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

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.

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9
United Israel Appeal Inc

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…

International
10
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc

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.

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11
University of Judaism Foundation
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12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center; 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.
05the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
27/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $500,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVAThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $450,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee IncJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $407,500 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCILAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $300,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTERAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $295,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INCFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $250,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $250,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $250,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $150,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $135,763 · International+13 more: $491,275 · International+13 moreJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $313,523 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEM…Zaka North Inc: $170,000 · OtherZaka North IncUKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $100,000 · OtherUKRAINIAN CONGRESS COM…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $65,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $51,000 · OtherGlobal Development Corporation(GDC) Incorporated: $50,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $100,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of Mi…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SH…ISRAEL RESCUE COALITION INC: $50,000 · Other+13 more: $227,782 · Other+13 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ASSUTA ASHDOD HOSPITAL INC: $275,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN F…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE KOBY M…THE GIVING BACK FUND: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING…THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $40,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureREUT USA: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers for Life: $50,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureKAVOD: $169,000 · Human ServicesTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMONPOINT NY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesZAKA NORTH INC: $150,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $10,000 · ReligionTHINC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $38,000 · EducationMUFLEHUN: $36,000 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Education
International$3,479,538Other$1,227,305Philanthropy$605,000Arts & Culture$425,000Human Services$251,000Religion$160,000Education$154,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $500,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $407,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $300,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $295,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ASSUTA ASHDOD HOSPITAL INC: $275,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKAVOD: $169,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIAS INC: $135,763 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $61,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $58,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHINC FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetISRAEL RESCUE COALITION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetREUT USA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBrothers for Life: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBayit Brigade: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $38,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUFLEHUN: $36,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCADENA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetASYLUM ACCESS: $25,325 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetU S COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY: $22,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $18,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: $18,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIRAN HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTATION CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…The Jewish Federation…Jewish Federation of …Jewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…National Philanthropi…Greater Miami Jewish …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Conrad N Hilton Found…Silicon Valley Commun…
Jewish Communal FundNY23.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Jewish Committee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Jewish Committee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Cadena Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to American Jewish Committee?

Find your warmest path to American Jewish Committee through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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