New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE (New York) receives grants from 1381 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,746,123 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($33,635,373). 803 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $127M
- Funders on record
- 1,381
- Grants received
- $247M
- Net assets
- $308M
What American Jewish Committee does
Mission
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. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, advocates for a secure Israel achieving fair treatment in the community of nations, and seeks to safeguard universal human rights. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON AJC'S MISSION IS AVAILABLE ON AJC'S WEBSITE.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Communications: communications: ajc's global communications department serves as the agency's chief storyteller. The department seeks to educate ajc's advocacy targets on our issues and to ensure high brand awareness and understanding of the agency's work among our target audiences. It supports and amplifies the efforts of every department within ajc and of the organization as a whole, while advancing its advocacy agenda. The department supports ajc's priorities and mission by conceiving, developing, and implementing major agency-wide campaigns and initiatives, solidifying ajc's brand identity as the global advocate for the jewish people, producing compelling content about ajc's priority issues and distributing it to an expanding audience, and utilizing a variety of means to build an ongoing relationship with current and potential supporters. With the largest social media following of any jewish organization in the world, including social media accounts in english, french, spanish, arabic and german, ajc interacts frequently with millions of users, from diplomats, and elected officials, to media elites. They, in turn, share ajc's advocacy messages with their constituencies,…
$27,261,013 spentof which $12,872 as grants$577,538 earned by the program33% of program spendingGovernment and international affairs: American Jewish Committee (ajc) is the global advocacy organization for the jewish people. Through our 25 regional offices across the u.s., 15 overseas posts, and partnerships with 38 jewish community organizations worldwide, ajc works to create a world in which jews and israel thrive. We create trusted partnerships with global leaders, including elected officials, diplomats, religious leaders, community partners, corporations, media and social media outlets, among other sectors of civil society. Ajc's domestic and international advocacy efforts involve extensive outreach to, and interaction and joint programming with, u.s. And foreign government officials, political factions, policy experts, media outlets, and civil society partners, including overseas jewish communities. With the global jewish community still reeling from the horrors of hamas' brutal attack on october 7, 2023, ajc mobilized its unparalleled global network to tackle the unprecedented threats facing world jewry. From world capitals to college campuses, ajc worked with leaders across society to support israel and combat surging antisemitism, and we leverage strategic…
$26,087,525 spentof which $2,104,353 as grants$552,677 earned by the program32% of program spendingThe department of regional offices: the department of regional offices network of 25 offices advances ajc's advocacy, leadership and fundraising priorities across the united states. In locations where ajc does not have a physical presence, we work with partners to accomplish ajc's objectives, including global diplomacy, political advocacy, coalition building, and strategic communications. The regional offices communicate and advocate with a variety of key interlocutors, including elected officials, diplomats, intergroup and interfaith leaders, civic leaders, university administrators, campus leaders and the media. They connect the local to the global and position ajc as the go-to jewish advocacy organization in the united states. In 2024, ajc national efforts continued to focus on addressing the aftermath of the october 7 attack, including the spike in antisemitism and unfair criticisms of the jewish state around the world and in multilateral forums. Major resources were devoted to educating uninformed audiences through trainings and webinars, addressing gaps in hate crime reporting in the u.s. To protect targeted communities, and setting the record straight when it comes to…
$20,769,905 spentof which $63,988 as grants$440,021 earned by the program25% of program spendingOther 2024 programmatic activities: ajc's other 2024 programmatic activities include: (1) interreligious and intergroup relations: ajc builds coalitions with like-minded partners to advance shared interests and values, and to further understanding. The agency firmly believes that the well-being of the jewish community is linked to that of other faith and minority groups in the united states and around the world. In 2024, ajc created translate hate: the catholic edition, a groundbreaking resource for churches across america to pave the way towards eradicating antisemitism.; (2) amid a massive surge in antisemitic and anti-zionist incidents at colleges and k-12 schools, ajc established a new center for education advocacy in 2024. The center's multi-tiered approach aims to allow jews of all ages, in all educational spaces, to learn and grow without the threats of harassment, intimidation, and violence. In september, ajc co-hosted more than 100 university leaders for the largest-ever university presidents summit on campus antisemitism; (3) access, ajc's young professional division, is charged with empowering jewish leaders to advocate on behalf of critical domestic and global issues…
$7,943,605 spentof which $65,151 as grants$168,289 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $82,062,048.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $189M to $241M (+27%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Theodore Deutch
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 318 funders to 579 funders, grant income rose $11M → $37M.
117 of 1381 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $499k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Institute of Human Relations of the American Jewish Committee). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1381 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
64% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 39% · 2019 11% · 2020 24% · 2021 26% · 2022 10% · 2023 27% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $92M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 41 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154M arriving through sponsors registered in 29 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$9k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Institute of Human Relations · exempt
- Trans-Atlantic Institute · exempt
- Ajc Berlin · exempt
- Fundajca American Jewish Committee Central Europe · exempt
- Ajc France · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE?
- AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE (New York) receives grants from 1381 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,746,123 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($33,635,373). 803 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE have?
- IRS filings report 1381 organizations giving $246,746,123 in grants to AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE, 803 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $33,635,373 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1381 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing