American Jewish Committee
New York, NY · EIN 13-5563393. Reported 88 grants totalling $5,677,413 to 53 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For American Jewish Committee, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 20% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Givat Haviva Inc | New York, NY | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | New York, NY | $450,000 | 6 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Agency for Israel-North American Council | New York, NY | $407,500 | 3 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center | New York, NY | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | New York, NY | $300,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc | Scarsdale, NY | $295,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Assuta Ashdod Hospital Inc | Old Westbury, NY | $275,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Natal Inc | New York, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America | New York, NY | $208,151 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jewish Agency for Israel- North America | Brooklyn, NY | $170,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kavod | Memphis, TN | $169,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Tel Aviv University Inc | New York, NY | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Zaka North Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | Teaneck, NJ | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Shalva Israel Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The American Friends of Migdal Ohr | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ucca Ukrainian Congress Committee of America | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $65,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Atlantic Council of the U S Inc | Washington, DC | $61,750 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| P E F Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Afya Foundation Inc | Yonkers, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Wgh Western Galilee Hospital Nahariya Israel I | Jenkintown, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bayit Brigade | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brothers for Life | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Giving Back Fund Inc | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Global Development Corporation(gdc) Incorporated | Randolph, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hias Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Reut USA | Woodland Hls, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Koby Mandell Foundation Inc | Englewood, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thinc Foundation | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Bar-Ilan University Inc | New York, NY | $38,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Muflehun | Washington, DC | $36,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Physicians for Human Rights Inc | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Cincinnati Foundation | Cincinnati, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Friends of Galilee Medical Center | Philadelphia, PA | $28,262 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jacob Burns Film Center Inc | Pleasantville, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Intl Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse Inc | Rockville, MD | $24,750 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Jewish Federations of North America Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Society of International Law | Washington, DC | $18,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Inc | New Haven, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation | New York, NY | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Commonpoint Ny Inc | Little Neck, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Hagal Sheli Inc | Dover, DE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | Cincinnati, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hias Foundation Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| High Atlas Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jew Or False LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Zionist Congress Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yeshiva of Los Angeles Girls High School(yula) | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
13 of 53 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Friends of Givat Haviva Inc
Grant in support of its activities together with the Kibbutz Movement to assist in meeting the needs of 23 kibbutzim savagely attacked by Hamas. - American Friends of Soroka Medical Center
Additional grant to purchase stretchers to address current emergency in Israel. - American Friends of Rambam Medical Center
Grant in support of its activities to assist Rambam Hospital in addressing the current emergency in Israel. - American Friends of Assuta Ashdod Hospital
Grant in support of its activities to assist AFAAH in addressing the current emergency in Israel. - Jewish Agency for Israel North American Council
Additional grant to Jewish Agency for Israel to sponsor a summer camp session operated by Jewish Agency for Ukrainian refugee children in Israel. - American Friends of Magen David Adom
Humanitarian grant to AFMDA to address the current emergency in Israel.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 42 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | $183,780 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 18 | $1,092,350 | $27,500 |
| 2023 | 42 | $3,518,750 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 20 | $882,533 | $35,231 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
80% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from American Jewish Committee's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 165 East 56TH Street, New York, NY, 10022.
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