Building Community: 2016 Our Grants

The Foundation awards grants to local, national and international charitable organizations. In 2016, we made grants to 100 organizations totaling over $214,000. Most grants were donor-directed; several had a competitive application process administered by our grants committee or the Jewish Women’s Endowment Fund members.

The Foundation made grants to these charitable organizations:

Jewish Community: $148,550 General Community: $65,450

Agudas Achim Congregation Accion New Mexico Stolen Youth American Jewish World Service Albuquerque Academy Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania American Society for Yad Vashem Albuquerque Community Foundation University of Colorado Foundation Anti Defamation League - New Mexico Albuquerque Museum Foundation University of Denver Asheville Jewish Community Center American Civil Liberties Union of NM University of New Mexico* BBYO Passport* Animal Humane New Mexico University of New Mexico Foundation Birthright Israel Foundation APS Education Foundation University of Southern California* Brothers for Life Aspen Music Festival and School Volunteers in Service to Education in India Camp Ramah in California* Casa Q, Inc. Wellspring, Interfaith Social Services Congregation Albert Collective Heritage Institute - Bioneers Congregation B’nai Israel Creativity for Peace *on behalf of scholarship recipient Foundation for Jewish Camp Cuidando los Ninos Friends of Yad Sarah Inc. Doctors Without Borders, USA Hadassah Environment New Mexico Research and Policy Center Hartley Film Foundation Family Promise of Albuquerque Herzl-Ner Tamid Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center HIAS Inc. Friends of Chamber Music Hillel at UNM ImpACT on Stage, Inc. Jewish Colorado Institute for Educational Leadership, Inc. Jewish Community Center of Denver - Ranch Camp* International Rescue Committee Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque Keshet Dance Company Jewish Day School Seattle KU Endowment, Universith of Kansas* Jewish Family Service of Seattle La Familia - Namaste Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. Jewish Federation of New Mexico New Mexico Appleseed Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks New Mexico Community Foundation MAKOM LA New Mexico Human Rights Projects Merkos Linyonei Chinuch - Cteen Xtreme Camp* New Mexico Immigrant Law Center National Council of Jewish Women - NY New Mexico Museum of Natural History Fdn National Ramah Commission* New Mexico PBS - KNME-TV New Israel Fund New Mexico Philharmonic New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds Opera Colorado Ramah in the Rockies* Opera Southwest Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Stand With Us - Northwest Region Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. Stroum Jewish Community Center Planned Parenthood of New Mexico Temple Emanuel Reach Out and Read Colorado The Jewish Center, Princeton, NJ Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico Union for Reform Judaism Serving Spoons, Inc. Union for Reform Judaism - Camp Newman* Seton Hall University Vanderbilt Hillel Foundation Society for Science & the Public Water Resources Action Project, Inc. Southwest Women’s Law Center Weizmann Day School St. Baldrick’s Foundation

www.jcfnm.org 505-348-4472 Values in Action: 2016 Our Funds

Endowed Funds These funds will benefit the charitable organizations or causes designated by their donors in perpetuity or for a specified period of time. In 2016, distributions from endowed funds were based on a 4.25% spending rate determined by the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Anonymous (1) Carole Beckhoff Endowment Fund – indigent Jewish burials Harold L. Folley Term Endowment Fund Gardenswartz Family Fund – Donor Advised Pearl F. Gross Fund – Jewish Chaplaincy and Outreach Mitzvah Fund for Jewish Academy of Arts & Sciences Mitzvah Fund for JCC of Greater Albuquerque Mitzvah Fund for Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico Mitzvah Fund for Jewish Federation of New Mexico Moranz Endowment Fund – local Jewish organizations and causes Janice & Stuart Paster Family Endowment Fund Arlene & Ira Rimson Term Endowment Fund Rimson Bernstein Family Endowment for Jewish Academy of Arts & Sciences Melvin & Paula Schwartz Endowment Fund for Congregation Albert Melvin & Paula Schwartz Endowment Fund for Hillel at University of New Mexico

Donor Advised (non-endowed) Funds Donors recommend grants to charitable organizations and expenditure amounts are not limited. Albert-Graeber-Fromme Fund Jayne & Ed Leighton Family Charitable Fund Ruth & Aaron Bernstein Charitable Fund Michael & Mina Jo Linver Fund Paula & David Blacher Charitable Fund Rimson Bernstein Donor Advised Fund Environmental Peacebuilding Fund Tom & Lois Ruby Charitable Fund John & Lisa Friedman Fund Shaw Family (L’Dor Va Dor) Fund Folley Negin Donor Advised Fund Bobbi & Gary Siegel Family Fund Philip & JoAnn Gardenswartz Carchman Fund Vivian Skadron Fund Gardenswartz Priestly Fund Stark Family Fund Gary Goodman Donor Advised Fund Steinberg Charitable Fund Shelley & Herb KofflerDonor Advised Fund UNM Lecture Series in Contemporary Jewish Studies Fund Milton Lasoski Donor Advised Fund Jane Wishner & Robert Rosenberg Charitable Fund

Organization Funds Community partners have placed their funds with us because they value the service we provide. Congregation Albert B’nai Mitzvah Fund Congregation B’nai Israel B’nai Israel Fund Morris Gusowsky Endowment Fund Hillel at University of New Mexico Jewish Community Fund of Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico Jewish Community Housing Corporation Jewish Family Service of New Mexico Jewish Federation of New Mexico: Irving & Hertha Auerbach Fund for Jewish Identity – camp scholarships, PJ Library, Birthright Israel Beatrice Bittner Memorial Fund for Holocaust Survivors Neil Isbin Scholarship Fund – college scholarships Israel Experience Fund – student Israel travel scholarships Jewish Women’s Endowment Fund – assistance for Jewish women & children in need JFNM Reserve Fund Galit Mares Scholarship Fund – camp scholarships Phyllis & Edward Ziegler Fund – human service needs New Mexico Jewish Historical Society

Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico is a beneficiary agency of Jewish Federation of New Mexico