Jewish Community Foundation of
Princeton, NJ · EIN 23-7174039. Reported 143 grants totalling $4,877,629 to 69 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 69 distinct organizations, with 20% 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. 70% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,500. Half of what it reported fell between $6,750 and $26,035; the smallest was $5,070 and the largest $315,135. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks Inc | Princeton, NJ | $952,336 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family & Childrens Service of Greater Mercer Co | Princeton, NJ | $657,057 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged Inc | Ewing Township, NJ | $428,346 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Jewish Committee | New York, NY | $416,155 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Homefront Inc | Lawrenceville, NJ | $371,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer Inc | Princeton, NJ | $266,524 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Center | Princeton, NJ | $245,983 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Beth-El Synogogue | East Windsor, NJ | $99,419 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish National Fund -Keren Kayemeth Leisrael- Inc | Rockville Ctr, NY | $86,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Joshua Harr Shane Foundation Inc | Monroe Twp, NJ | $81,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Congregation Beth Chaim | Princeton Jct, NJ | $73,352 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| One Family Fund | Teaneck, NJ | $55,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $53,823 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Brooklyn Law School | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Foundation for Morristown Medical Center Inc | Morristown, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Abrams Hebrew Academy | Yardley, PA | $49,515 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Charity Navigator | Union City, NJ | $49,500 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | Montgomery, AL | $48,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| T a S K | Trenton, NJ | $46,409 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Education in Media Inc Dba Jbs Jewish Broadcasting Servic | New York, NY | $45,018 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family and Childrens Service Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $41,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Temple Sholom | Bridgewater, NJ | $37,576 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Augusta Chiwy Foundation | Westerville, OH | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jewish Federation of Somerset County | Bridgewater, NJ | $31,226 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Rutgers University Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | $30,445 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Foothills Food Bank | Carefree, AZ | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $28,726 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Central Fund of Israel | Cedarhurst, NY | $25,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc | Sarasota, FL | $24,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Temple Beth El | Hillsborough, NJ | $20,929 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Womanspace Inc | Lawrenceville, NJ | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $19,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Adults and Children With Learning and Developmental Disabilities Inc | Bethpage, NY | $18,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sarasota Film Festival Inc | Sarasota, FL | $18,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | New York, NY | $17,690 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History | Philadelphia, PA | $16,560 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mccarter Theatre Company | Princeton, NJ | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| New Israel Fund | New York, NY | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Marys Food Bank Alliance | Phoenix, AZ | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $11,550 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Temple Sholom Inc | Greenwich, CT | $10,920 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arizona Kosher Food Pantry | Phoenix, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Common Ground | Ruther Glen, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Genesis 123 Foundation | Princeton, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Housing Initiatives of Princeton Charitable Tr | Princeton, NJ | $8,362 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Fellowship of Christians & Jews | Chicago, IL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj | Whippany, NJ | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, NJ | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Tikvah Fund | New York, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arm in Arm Inc | Hamilton Township, NJ | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Princeton Senior Resource Center | Princeton, NJ | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chabad of the Windsors Inc | West Windsor, NJ | $6,360 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Crane Center for Mass Atrocity Prevention Inc | Westfield, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Union for Reform Judaism | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Central Kitchen Incorporated | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Zamru | Princeton, NJ | $5,938 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc | Trenton, NJ | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute of Human Relations of the American Jewish Committee | New York, NY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of Princeton Public Library | Princeton, NJ | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Museum Associates | Los Angeles, CA | $5,090 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Mercer County Inc | Princeton, NJ | $5,070 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
34 of 69 (49%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 56 of 69 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 31 | $1,200,175 | $11,555 |
| 2021 | 39 | $1,268,483 | $11,800 |
| 2022 | 31 | $985,954 | $13,537 |
| 2023 | 42 | $1,423,017 | $13,012 |
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
74% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. 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 $12,500 -- 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 Jersey.
- 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 Jewish Community Foundation of's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 457 Nassau Street Suite 101, Princeton, NJ, 08540.
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