Virginia · Public charity
Richmond Jewish Foundation
The Richmond Jewish Foundation is a primary, trusted and expert resource for planned giving and endowments. We engage, educate and inspire generations of donors to create ongoing resources for charitable, religious, and educational needs. Our donors may choose legacies of Tzedakah and Tikkun Olam. We effectively steward philanthropic…
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $883,122
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $61M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Richmond Jewish Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $526k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $2.0M | 47% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $2.2M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $2.4M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $4.8M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $2.2M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $1.7M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $1.8M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $1.6M | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Federation of Richmond | $5,958,851 | 9 | 25% |
| Richmond Hebrew Day School | $2,183,060 | 9 | 32% |
| Jewish Community Center of Richmond | $1,148,512 | 9 | 2% |
| SupportWorks Housing | $900,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Jewish Family Services Inc | $463,461 | 9 | 3% |
| Benjamin and Lillian Rochkind Yeshiva of Virginia Inc | $434,106 | 8 | 14% |
| Animal Services of Richmond Inc | $400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $270,876 | 7 | 0% |
| The Virginia Holocaust Museum | $216,549 | 9 | 3% |
| Keneseth Beth Israel | $214,891 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 80 grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Richmond Jewish Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Commonwealth Foundations · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Townebank Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation
How this is measured
About Richmond Jewish Foundation
- How much does Richmond Jewish Foundation give?
- Richmond Jewish Foundation reported 33 itemized grants totaling $1,967,907, out of $3,105,404 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Richmond Jewish Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Philanthropy (29%), Education (16%).
- Who are Richmond Jewish Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Community Federation of Richmond ($6.0M), Richmond Hebrew Day School ($2.2M), Jewish Community Center of Richmond ($1.1M).
- Does Richmond Jewish Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Richmond Jewish Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Herndon Foundation, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Richmond Jewish Foundation based?
- Richmond Jewish Foundation is based in VA.
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