New York · Nonprofit
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc (New York) receives grants from 801 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,412,931 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ($63,187,315). 433 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $413M
- Funders on record
- 801
- Grants received
- $313M
- Net assets
- $765M
What The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc does
Mission
Since 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has acted on behalf of North America's Jewish communities and others to fulfill the principle that "kol Yisrael arevim zeh l'zeh" - all Jews are responsible for one another. JDC is dedicated (cont. on sched. O)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Saving Jewish Lives: Relief and social welfare programs provide human services and support to Jews in need in countries around the world. Services are provided to those individuals that meet criteria relevant to the local environment, such as poverty and income levels, the existence or lack of available social services within a country, and consideration for physical mobility, disabilities, and unique circumstances. Programs include: 1)food and nutritional support; 2)development of social services; 3)homecare; 4)medical services, equipment, and medicines; 5)emergency grants.In 2023, JDC continued its historic and wide-ranging response to the conflict in Ukraine, which required increased emergency humanitarian support work in the country, in numerous European (cont. on Sched. O) border countries hosting refugees, and other post-Soviet nations impacted by the crisis and global inflation. JDC leveraged its preexisting infrastructure in Ukraine (including its social service center network, JCCs, thousands of JDC staff, social service center professionals, homecare workers, and JDC-trained Jewish community volunteers) and partnerships with local Jewish communities in Europe and…
$203,318,372 spentof which $171,980,677 as grants61% of program spendingInnovative social services in Israel: JDC assists vulnerable Jews throughout the world. This mission is crucial in Israel, where JDC provides aid to Israel's most vulnerable citizens, including unemployed Israelis, children at risk, elderly and Israelis with disabilities. Before the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and subsequent war, one million Israelis every week were touched by social services created by JDC. JDC leveraged its 100+ year presence in Israel to immediately respond to the October 7th attacks and ongoing war. In 2023, JDC provided urgent humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Israel's most vulnerable, and tens of thousands more who never needed the organization's help before - the evacuated, those (cont. on Sched. O) under fire, and those facing financial hardship, and widespread trauma. This relief effort included: Providing tens of thousands of the hardest-hit Israelis with direct aid, including food and cash assistance; education, welfare, and employment services; mental health solutions, and online and mobile social services. Deploying training and tools to more than 42,000 professionals engaged in crisis response and trauma programs. Guiding and supporting more…
$101,588,188 spentof which $48,334,770 as grants30% of program spendingBuilding Jewish life: JDC strengthens Jewish communities in three ways. First, JDC helps build Jewish identity and engagement among Jews with a variety of levels of Jewish affiliation through inclusive, pluralistic programs focused on Jewish culture and traditions. Second, JDC nurtures institutions and trains leaders so communities are efficient, transparent, representative, and self-reliant. Third, JDC urges communities to care for their most vulnerable members. As a result, there are synergies between our community development and care missions: Individuals are more likely to receive care and JDC has less need to provide it if vibrant local communities take on this responsibility. Programs focus on capacity-building through efforts to support the creation and maintenance of Jewish (cont. on Sched. O) communities, to strengthen communities by building communal participation, and to improve community life. Programs include: Leadership Initiatives & Training Developing Volunteerism Camping and Retreats Informal Jewish Education (clubs and other activities) Jewish Tradition/Religion/Holiday Celebrations Jewish Community Centers Formal Jewish Education (schools) Educational…
$11,858,832 spentof which $10,031,016 as grants$778,417 earned by the program4% of program spendingGlobal Response & Innovative Development (GRID) Program: This program responds to humanitarian crises, natural disasters, and development challenges through emergency response and recovery work and development programs for vulnerable populations. JDC also convenes and coordinates the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Response, an alliance of 40+ Jewish agencies that respond to major global crises and disasters. In 2023, JDC responded to powerful earthquakes that struck Turkey and Morocco. In Turkey, JDC supplied food and material aid to 40,000 survivors, and shelter solutions for 3,000 people and 4 ambulances serving a catchment of 3 million people. In Morocco, JDC delivered food and material aid to over 1,000 households and supplied durable Saharan tents to house 1,860 survivors, along with gas heaters and latrines. Research and Development: These programs include JDC's research institutes, other types of research studies and JDC's investment in development of technologies and information systems. Entwine: a one-of-a-kind JDC movement for young Jewish leaders, influencers, and advocates who seek to make a meaningful impact on global Jewish needs and international humanitarian issues…
$16,313,860 spentof which $7,189,740 as grants$632,534 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $333,079,252.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $709M to $795M (+12%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 13% · 2019 15% · 2020 17% · 2021 17% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 154 funders to 339 funders, grant income rose $34M → $48M.
94 of 801 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $1.4B from 109 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc); $1.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Weitzman Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 801 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
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
54% 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 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 21% · 2019 27% · 2020 17% · 2021 23% · 2022 15% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“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
47% of The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 44 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79M arriving through sponsors registered in 33 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.
Against its field
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 98 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 98 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Agency for International Development$1.0M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$17k
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 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 48 related entities
- (1)Swergold Family Foundation for Children · exempt
- (2)Jack G Buncher Charitable Fund for AJJDC · exempt
- (3)The Thalheimer Family - JDC Support Fdn · exempt
- (4)Charity Fund JDC · exempt
- (5)Intl Social Orgn AJJDC Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc?
- The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc (New York) receives grants from 801 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,412,931 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ($63,187,315). 433 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc have?
- IRS filings report 801 organizations giving $313,412,931 in grants to The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc, 433 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc?
- INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC is the largest funder on record, with $63,187,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc 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 801 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