Foundation - Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Jewish Community Foundation

At the Jewish Community Foundation (JCF), we bring together people who are committed to building a better world through tikkun olam. However you want to “repair the world,” the Jewish Community Foundation connects you with causes and organizations that embody your values.

The JCF provides oversight of endowment funds and legacy gifts to ensure donors’ wishes are fulfilled.

With years of experience under our belts, we provide you and your family with unique Jewish philanthropic expertise and support, valuable tools, and the professional know-how to make your charitable planned giving personalized, thoughtful, and tax beneficial.

Your gift allows you to be there when help is needed-today, throughout your lifetime, and for generations to come. Tell us what you value. We’ll help get you there.

Assets Under Management

1,000+

Number of Charitable Funds

Assets Under Management

$128
Million

Assets under Management

Grants into Community

$31
Million

Grants into Community
(past 5 years)

Aggregate Pool Return

10.3%

Aggregate Pool Return
(2 year annualized performance as of 3.31.18)

Our Mission

The Jewish Community Foundation actively serves those interested in philanthropy through a Jewish lens by building permanent charitable capital, encouraging a culture of local and global philanthropy, and providing for the vitality of programs that are important to its donors. It also provides opportunities and resources to Jewish organizations, allowing them to focus more completely on their respective missions and the raising of permanent charitable capital.

Why choose the Jewish Community Foundation?

Give through a Jewish lens
Maximize tax benefits
Administration of your fund and professional investment
Staff support throughout the giving process to deliver support according to your charitable interests
Benefit from our Jewish community expertise, relationships, and stewardship
Competitive administrative fees go back into the Jewish community, creating a double mitzvah!
Honor or remember your loved ones

Choose the way you make a difference.

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