American Jewish World Service Inc
New York, NY · EIN 22-2584370. Reported 127 grants totalling $7,595,835 to 47 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 World Service Inc, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 26% 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. 81% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $562,865. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Public Radio Inc | Washington, DC | $2,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Myriad USA Inc | New York, NY | $1,202,394 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc | Cambridge, MA | $455,134 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Global Action for Trans Equality Inc | New York, NY | $290,012 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Astraea Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $282,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Singh Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $271,711 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Solidarity Uganda | Hanover, PA | $254,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Haitian-American Foundation for Democracy Inc | Miami, FL | $241,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | $155,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mother Nature Cambodia Inc | Santa Rosa, CA | $154,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Front Line USA Foundation | Montclair, NJ | $140,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beyond Borders Inc | Norristown, PA | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Escr-Net-International Network for Economic Social and Cultural Inc | New York, NY | $120,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| International Accountability Project | Brooklyn, NY | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Forgotten Parks Foundation | Dover, FL | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Narratives Inc | New York, NY | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Actionaid USA | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Earthrights International Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Global Greengrants Fund Inc | Boulder, CO | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association | Boston, MA | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rohingya Healthcare Committee | Saratoga, CA | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $79,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Creating Resources for Empowerment and Action Inc | New York, NY | $73,156 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fortify Inc | Brighton, CO | $68,492 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Economic and Policy Research | Washington, DC | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Edge Funders Alliance | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Proteus Fund Inc | Waltham, MA | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Project on Organizing Development Education and Research Ltd | New York, NY | $56,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Global Justice Center | New York, NY | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Namati Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Magnum Cultural Foundation | New York, NY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Funders Concerned About AIDS Inc | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Womens Environment and Development Organization Wedo | Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fund for Constitutional Government | Washington, DC | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ceres Trust | Chicago, IL | $25,836 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Association for Thai Democracy | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| International Rivers Network | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Meedan Inc | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Global Justice Ecology Project Inc | Randolph, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Konbit LLC | Northfield, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrants Rights | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shadhika | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project Inc | Milton, VT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social Movement Technologies Foundation Inc | Bloomfield, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Refugee Women for Peace and Justice | Chicago, IL | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
33 of 47 (70%) 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.
- Association for Thai Democracy
TO SUPPORT A DELEGATION OF PROMINENT THAI ACTIVISTS TO TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON DC TO CONDUCT ADVOCACY IN SUPPORT OF FREE & FAIR ELECTIONS. - Sex Work Donor Collaborative
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR SEX WORK DONOR COLLABORATIVE THAT IS A CRITICAL SPACE THAT BRINGS TOGETHER FUNDERS WHO SUPPORT SW RIGHTS TO INFLUENCE THEIR PEERS IN PRIVATE, PUBLIC AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT AND QUALITY OF FUNDING. - We Are All Dominican
TO REPAIR AND REBUILD RELATIONSHIPS AMONG ANTI-RACIST ACTIVISTS AND OTHER MOVEMENTS CRITICAL TO SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. - Konbit LLC
TO ADVANCE THE ANTI-CORRUPTION AND GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY MOVEMENTS IN HAITI.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 39 of 47 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 | 33 | $1,537,372 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 32 | $1,713,131 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 31 | $2,109,693 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 31 | $2,235,639 | $25,000 |
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
37% 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
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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 $25,000 -- 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 World Service Inc'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 30 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 45 West 36TH Street, New York, NY, 10018.
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