Greater Washington Jewish Community Foundation

Analysis

Greater Washington Jewish Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in North Bethesda, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1965, 61 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 December 2023, Greater Washington Jewish Community Foundation reported income of $60k and spending of $152k, spending 252% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $19k to $60k (+224%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 221%. Over the whole period it spent 123% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Greater Washington Jewish Community Foundation sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 24th percentile, and in the 26th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include NW Pennsylvania Ntma Education Foundation ($60k), Purposeful Living and Giving Inc ($60k) and Harvard Community Foundation Inc ($60k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 26% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $7,711, net assets of $2.8m.