United Jewish Foundation

Analysis

United Jewish Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Bloomfield Hills, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1943, 83 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending May 2024, United Jewish Foundation reported income of $48.0m and spending of $60.6m, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2020 to May 2024, income fell from $64.7m to $48.0m (-26%), an average of -7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, United Jewish Foundation sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include North Carolina Community Foundation Inc ($47.9m), Dallas Jewish Community Foundation ($48.1m) and Comic Relief Inc ($47.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% of the total. At year end it held assets of $674.9m against liabilities of $127.1m, net assets of $547.8m.