Building Community: 2018 Our Grants
The Foundation awards grants to local, national and international charitable organizations. In 2018, we made grants to 119 organizations totaling over $369,000. 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:
516 Arts HIAS New Mexico Environmental Law Center Accion New Mexico Hillel at UNM New Mexico Faith Coalition for Immigrant Justice Albuquerque Public School Education Foundation Holocaust and Intolerance Museum of New Mexico New Mexico Human Rights Projects Alzheimer’s Association - Desert SW Chapter Immanuel United Church of Christ-Food Pantry New Mexico Immigrant Law Center American Cancer Society ImpACT on Stage New Mexico Philharmonic American Civil Liberties Union Foundation In-Sync Exotics New York Women in Film & Television American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico International Rescue Committee PEF Israel Endow. Funds - KCDC* American Forests International School of Denver PEF Israel Endow. Funds - Society for Education & American Friends of ILAN JCC of Greater Albuquerque Health in Israel American Indian College Fund Jewish Agency for Israel* Planned Parenthood Federation of America American Jewish World Service Jewish Colorado Reach Out and Read Colorado American Red Cross Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico ReadWest American Society for Yad Vashem Jewish Congregation of Maui Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Anti Defamation League (ADL) Jewish Family Service of Colorado Rhinebeck Performing Arts Asheville Jewish Community Center Jewish Federation of New Mexico Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico Aspen Music Festival and School Jewish Federation of NM - Jewish Care Program Rocky Mountain PBS Assoc. Bais Rivkah School for Girls* Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks Santa Fe Jewish Center - Chabad Barack Obama Foundation Jewish National Fund South St. Paul Educational Foundation BBYO* Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation Southern Poverty Law Center Bend the Arc - Jewish Partnership for Justice Kalamazoo College* St. Martin’s Hospitality Center Bosque School La Plaza de Encuentro Temple Emanuel Boston University* Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law The Jewish Center, Princeton, NJ Brooklyn Public Library League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico The Red and Blue 12th Man Club Camp Ramah - CA* Little Essentials Trinity Prepatory School Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation MAKOM LA Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Colorado Public Radio McCarter Theatre Company Union for Reform Judaism Columbia Riverkeeper Mental Health Colorado Union for Reform Judaism-OSRUI* Congregation Albert Miami Waterkeeper University of Cincinnati Foundation Congregation B’nai Israel Mikva Challenge University of Colorado Foundation Congregation Ohev Shalom NAACP University of New Mexico Foundation Congregation Shearith Israel NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund Walkin N Circles Ranch Congregation Tiferet Israel of Austin National Brain Tumor Society Water Resources Action Project Denver Jewish Day School National Council of Jewish Women - NY Weizmann Day School Doctors Without Borders, USA National Dance Institute New Mexico (NDI) Wellspring, Interfaith Social Services Eastern New Mexico University National Multiple Sclerosis Society Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos National Park Foundation Wildearth Guardians Enlace Comunitario National Resource Defense Council Evidence Action National Women’s Law Center *On behalf of scholarship recipient Family Promise of Albuquerque Nature Conservancy Forward Together New Israel Fund Friends of Chamber Music New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble Friends of Yad Sarah New Mexico Dog
www.jcfnm.org 505-348-4472 Values in Action: 2018 Our Funds Endowed Funds These funds will beneft charitable organizations or causes designated by their donors in perpetuity or for a specifed period of time. In 2018, distributions from endowed funds were based on a 4% spending rate determined by the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Anonymous (1) Mitzvah Fund for Jewish Federation of New Mexico Carole Beckhoff Endowment Fund – indigent Jewish burials Moranz Endowment Fund Ruth Mendelsohn Bernstein & Aaron Bernstein, MD Endowment Fund Janice & Stuart Paster Family Endowment Fund Harold L. Folley Term Endowment Fund Lynne & Jerome Pfeffer Endowment Fund Howard & Debra Friedman Family Endowment Fund Arlene & Ira Rimson Term Endowment Fund Gardenswartz Family Fund – Donor Advised Rimson Bernstein Family Endowment for Pearl F. Gross Fund – Jewish Chaplaincy and Outreach Jewish Academy of Arts & Sciences Middle East Environmental Peacebuilding Endowment Fund Laurie & Harvey Ruskin Endowment Fund Mitzvah Fund for Jewish Academy of Arts & Sciences Melvin & Paula Schwartz Endowment Fund for Congregation Albert Mitzvah Fund for JCC of Greater Albuquerque Melvin & Paula Schwartz Endowment Fund for Hillel at UNM Mitzvah Fund for Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico
Donor Advised (non-endowed) Funds Donors recommend grants to charitable organizations and expenditure amounts are not limited. Albert-Graeber-Fromme Fund Leonard Family L’Dor Va Dor Fund Ruth & Aaron Bernstein Charitable Fund Michael & Mina Jo Linver Fund Paula & David Blacher Charitable Fund Ma’ayan Family L’Dor Va Dor Fund Chaia’s Hopes Fund Meyer Family L’Dor Va Dor Fund Convivencia Fund Ralph Moller Donor Advised Fund Environmental Peacebuilding Fund Lynne & Jerome Pfeffer Charitable Fund John & Lisa Friedman Fund Rimson Bernstein Donor Advised Fund Folley Negin Donor Advised Fund Tom & Lois Ruby Charitable Fund Ganz-Chavez Charitable Fund Segal Friedmann Charitable Fund Philip & JoAnn Gardenswartz Carchman Fund Shaw Family (L’Dor Va Dor) Fund Gardenswartz Priestly Fund Bobbi & Gary Siegel Family Fund Gary Goodman Donor Advised Fund Skadron Family L’Dor Va Dor Fund Koa Nohea Memorial Donor Advised Fund Vivian Skadron Fund Shelley & Herb Koffer Donor Advised Fund Stark Family Fund Koffer Grandchildren’s Giving Fund Steinberg Charitable Fund Milton Lasoski Donor Advised Fund UNM Lecture Series in Contemporary Jewish Studies Fund Jayne & Ed Leighton Family Charitable 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 Auerbach Fund for B’nai Israel, B’nai Israel Fund, Morris Gusowsky Endowment Fund Hillel at University of New Mexico JCC LIFE & LEGACY TM Fund Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico Immigrant & Refugee Assistance Fund, Jewish Community Fund Jewish Community Housing Corporation Jewish Family Service of New Mexico Jewish Federation of New Mexico (JFNM) 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 JFNM Endowment Fund 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 The May Center for Learning Fund Nahalat Shalom Spiritual Leadership Endowment Fund New Mexico Jewish Historical Society (NMJHS) NMJHS LIFE & LEGACY TM Endowment Fund, NMJHS Fund
Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico is a benefciary agency of Jewish Federation of New Mexico