United Jewish Charities of Greater
Charlotte, NC · EIN 56-1951745. Reported 102 grants totalling $15.2M to 31 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 United Jewish Charities of Greater, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropic organization (NTEE T99Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 39% 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. 88% 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 $33,937. Half of what it reported fell between $17,300 and $100,054; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $2,902,230. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Jewish Federations of North America Inc | New York, NY | $5,973,684 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Foundation of Shalom Park Inc | Charlotte, NC | $2,419,663 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sandra and Leon Levine Jewish Community Center Inc | Charlotte, NC | $1,514,432 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Services of Greater Charlotte Inc | Charlotte, NC | $1,308,175 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Charlotte Jewish Day School Inc | Charlotte, NC | $771,670 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $733,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Merkos Linyonei Chinuch Lubavitch of North Carolina Inc | Charlotte, NC | $426,063 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| All Others Not Exceeding 5000 | Charlotte, NC | $323,202 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Temple Beth El | Charlotte, NC | $278,061 | 11 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Chapel Hill, NC | $267,575 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Charlotte Jewish Preschool Inc | Charlotte, NC | $231,679 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Jewish World Service Inc | New York, NY | $153,302 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Queens University of Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | $108,028 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hebrew Cemetery Assoc of Charlotte Inc | Charlotte, NC | $104,502 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Moishe House | Encinitas, CA | $78,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ballantyne Jewish Center Inc | Charlotte, NC | $54,471 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bnai Brith Youth Organization Inc | Washington, DC | $50,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Council of Lake Norman | Mooresville, NC | $50,100 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Temple Israel | Charlotte, NC | $49,420 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Holocaust Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $49,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Lake Norman | Cornelius, NC | $48,569 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Temple Kol Tikvah of Lake Norman | Davidson, NC | $37,324 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Greenspon Center for Peace | Charlotte, NC | $34,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Carolina Holocaust Foun | Raleigh, NC | $32,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hebrew Cemetary | Charlotte, NC | $27,297 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Temple Kol Ami | Fort Mill, SC | $26,700 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Temple Solel Sc | Fort Mill, SC | $23,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Refugee Support Services of Thecarolinas Inc | Charlotte, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc | Charlotte, NC | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chabad Lake Norman | Cornelius, NC | $15,340 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southern Reconciliation Minis | Burnsville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
24 of 31 (77%) 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.
- Jewish Federations of North a
Miscellaneous overseas distributions - Foundation of Shalom Park
Rent Subsidies for Jewish agencies - Birthright Israel
Promote Jewish Identity and persona - Sandra & Leon Levine Jewish Community
Cultural, educ, athl programs - Jewish Family Services
General Operating and Tzedakah Fund - All Others Not Exceeding 5000
Various assistance to organizations
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 31 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 | 17 | $2,988,467 | $70,000 |
| 2022 | 29 | $3,214,544 | $29,000 |
| 2023 | 28 | $5,243,737 | $30,790 |
| 2024 | 28 | $3,791,109 | $33,576 |
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
54% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. 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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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 $33,937 -- 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 North Carolina.
- 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 United Jewish Charities of Greater'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 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 13 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: 5007 Providence Road 101, Charlotte, NC, 28226.
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