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THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC
THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 199 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,478,282 to it, the largest being Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc ($736,173). 128 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 199
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $15M
What The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc does
Mission
The jewish foundation for the righteous, inc. (jfr) honors and financially supports non-jews, righteous gentiles, who risked their lives and often the lives of their families to save jews during the holocaust. During 2025, the foundation provided monthly financial assistance to 73 aged & needy non-jewish rescuers in 10 countries throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
As of january 1,2025 the jewish foundation for the righteous (jfr) was providing monthly financial support to 73 aged and needy non-jews, righteous gentiles, who risked their lives to save jews during the holocaust. In 2025, the jfr distributed more than $700,000 usd in direct support of rescuers who live in 10 countries. Funds are distributed three times during the year. Funds are distributed to the rescuers in a safe and efficient manner. Procedures are in place to ensure that the rescuers receive their funds. Procedures and safeguards are also in place to ensure that the rescuers receiving monthly support from the jfr are still alive. The majority of the rescuers receiving financial assistance live in eastern europe, with poland having the largest number of rescuers. Jfr began supporting rescuers in the late 1980s.
$1,456,886 spentof which $723,474 as grants83% of program spendingThe jfr is committed to teaching the history of the holocaust, to addressing antisemitism, and to preserving the legacy of righteous gentiles. The jfr's national holocaust teacher education program is comprised of four key components: 1) jfr published educational materials; 2) the alfred lerner fellowship program; 3) holocaust centers of excellence program; and 4) educational seminars, institutes, and workshops for teachers and students. The jfr's national teacher training program works with 13 recognized holocaust centers across the united states. These holocaust centers comprise the jfr's holocaust centers of excellence program. The jfr continued to provide support to 13 holocaust centers located across the united states and to their teachers. The jfr continues to support its more than 700 alfred lerner fellows from the united states, poland, croatia, hungary, and lithuania as well as meeting the needs of individual educators and schools across the united states requesting information about the holocaust and how to teach this complex subject in the classroom. In 2024 the jfr launched it's new online holocaust program, "how was it possible? A holocaust curriculum for and by…
$307,010 spent17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,763,896.
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 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $11M (−16%).
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.
61% of THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Steven Field Md
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 62 funders to 68 funders, grant income fell $522k → $383k.
13 of 199 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 199 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 JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% 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 JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 41% · 2019 19% · 2020 18% · 2021 16% · 2022 20% · 2023 25% — 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
44% of THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC?
- THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 199 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,478,282 to it, the largest being Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc ($736,173). 128 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 199 organizations giving $3,478,282 in grants to THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC, 128 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC?
- Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc is the largest funder on record, with $736,173 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 199 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