Where You See Our Impact

As the leading collective of Jewish funders
in the country, the Jewish Communal Fund has a singular mission: help our Fundholders support their charities quickly and securely.

For over 52 years, we’ve helped our Fundholders make their charitable giving simpler and more tax-efficient, making a profound impact on our community.

In addition to our Fundholders’ giving, totaling over $1 billion in FY 25, JCF’s Board of Trustees makes a $2 million gift from our revenues to the annual UJA-Federation of New York campaign. Our endowment, the Special Gifts Fund, makes annual grants on behalf of our JCF community to support organizations that promote the welfare and security of the Jewish community at home and abroad.

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Our Community Gift has two components:

A $2 million donation to the Annual Campaign of UJA-Federation of New York
Grants from the JCF Special Gifts Fund. Since 1999, more than $30 million has been awarded from the Special Gifts Fund to over a dozen worthy causes selected with the assistance of UJA-Federation of NY.

Special Gifts – 2025

$500,000 to Ohel for a capital expansion to help more people with developmental disabilities
$450,000 to JEP Center for Inclusive Learning for a portal to help educators find accurate and unbiased information about Jewish identity, Israel, and antisemitism
$100,000 to Ariel Center for an exercise studio so residents can participate in sports-based healing and resilience
$100,000 to Rimon Farms for a new therapeutic bakery where young people can learn, develop their work ethic, and gain life skills
$48,500 to UJA for UJA’s community security initiative for CCTV systems to install security cameras in Crown Heights Shomrim

Special Gifts – 2024

$500,000 to Emergency funds to Israel following the October 7th attacks
$500,000 to Met Council to update and expand their food warehouse
$350,000 to JCC Mid-Westchester for a new theater
$325,000 to Sephardic Bikur Holim to transition their food pantry to a digital offering
$200,000 to Amigour to build a saferoom for senior citizens in an assisted living facility in Israel
$125,00 to the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan for increased accessibility at their box office
$65,000 to Community Security Initiative (CSI) for additional security at Jewish summer camps

Special Gifts – 2023

$500,000 to CUNY Hillels to give Jewish students a safe space and support for the outbreak of antisemitism on campuses
$500,000 to Met Council Digital Pantry Brooklyn Hub designed to offer a more dignified and streamlined solution to hunger
$500,000 to Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds in Staten Island to build a Home Base for campers to relax and connect
$250,000 to HFLS Bridge Loans for security improvements for two camps, three synagogues, and one Chabad house
$250,000 to 92NY to engage more people both in-person and online in High Holiday services
$60,000 to Mid Island Y JCC to create a room for a program helping adults with special needs in their daily lives

Special Gifts – 2022

$100,000 to the Riverdale Y to renovate its multipurpose room
$171,428 to the Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds for the Jewish Communal Fund Home Base and a new pool
$133,000 to UJA-Federation of New York to provide mental health care at multiple day camps
$132,500 to UJA-Federation of New York’s new Brooklyn Hub, to create a safe space for victims of domestic violence and for the New York Legal Assistance Group’s office
$83,333 to the JCC Staten Island to support its Upward New York Digital Food Pantry

2021

$250,000 to the Sephardic Jewish Community Center to create a therapy center
$211,000 to UJA-Federation of New York to provide Jewish day camp scholarships for campers attending camps housed on the Henry Kauffmann Campgrounds for Summer 2021.
$130,000 to the Shorefront JCC for its digital food pantry
$100,000 to UJA-Federation of New York to provide a matching grant to four camps in UJA’s network to secure funding for capital improvements

2020

This year JCF’s Special Gifts Fund approved $1 million in emergency coronavirus-related grants:

$500,000 to the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty to provide emergency food delivery for low-income seniors who are sheltering in place at home and are at greater risk from the coronavirus outbreak
$250,000 to UJA-Federation of New York’s Community Initiative for Holocaust Survivors to provide critical services for Holocaust Survivors
$150,000 to the UJA-Federation of New York to provide thousands of Passover Seder Meals to Go
$50,000 to UJA-Federation of New York’s Single Parent Initiative to provide emergency cash assistance for single parents
$50,000 to Dorot’s University Without Walls which connects seniors to educational programs using their telephone

2019

$275,000 to the Sid Jacobson JCC to provide a food bank stafed largely by individuals with special needs
$250,000 for the Henry Kaufmann Campground at Pearl River to renovate swimming pools
$120,000 to the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst to expand a support program for Holocaust survivors with dementia
$130,000 to support Met Council to increase its capacity to provide food to those in need
$100,000 to support UJA-Federation of New York’s Single Parent Initiative to provide scholarships for day camp, day care and after-school programs.
$110,000 to Mishkon to provide an adaptive playground, a pool lift and increased lighting and security features

Watch: Groundbreaking of the new sensory and therapeutic playground at Mishkon

2018

Jewish Communal Fund Food Pantry Ribbon Cutting

$375,000 to the United Jewish Council of the East Side to provide a Digital Choice Food Pantry
$250,000 for New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) to provide free Civil Legal Services at the Brooklyn Resource Hub
$125,000 to the Community Initiative for Holocaust Survivors (CIHS) showcasing “Hours of Freedom”
$90,000 to support the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC to cover increased food costs at the new Sustenance Center

2017

$500,000 for the Digital Choice Food Pantry at the Central Queens Y Community Resource Hub
$500,000 for a New Home Base at the Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds’ Long Island site
$100,000 to build a sensory gym at The Harold and Elaine Shames JCC on the Hudson
$125,000 to UJA-Federation of New York for the expansion of the Witness Theater Holocaust education project
$65,000 to support Selfhelp Community Services‘ 26 Coffee Houses
$65,000 to provide scholarships for the JCC of Manhattan’s Camp Settoga for children from low-income families

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