About Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona
Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona gives at very large scale while still anchoring much of its work in Tucson institutions and Jewish communal life. In the recent grants list, it made multimillion-dollar general-support awards to Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, alongside substantial support for University of Arizona Foundation and Tucson Jewish Community Center. The foundation’s giving also reaches beyond its local network, with grants to organizations such as Protect Democracy Project, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and American Israel Education Fdn. Its stated focus areas point to a mix of Jewish life and education, social services and basic needs, community security, aging services, youth and young families, special needs services, Israel travel scholarships, and emergency response and relief. The pattern suggests a funder that uses both broad community support and targeted grants to sustain institutions, services, and programs across Southern Arizona and beyond. Across 2025 and 2024, the foundation continued to back core operations at organizations serving education, health, advocacy, and community infrastructure.
What Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona Funds
In Jewish life and education, the foundation backed Tucson Hebrew Academy with $440,720 in 2024 and $399,011 in 2025, and it also supported University of Arizona Hillel Foundation with $274,735 in 2025. That same community-oriented thread appears in support for Tucson Jewish Community Center, which received $1,322,707 in 2025 and $348,956 in 2024. The foundation also funds social services and basic needs, including $461,000 to Interfaith Community Services in 2025 and $300,000 to El Pasoans Fighting Hunger in 2025. In health and access-related work, it gave $750,000 to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2025 and $600,000 to Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine in 2024. Its support for civic and education-oriented institutions also includes $300,000 to The Conversation US in 2025.
How Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona Gives
Typical grant size is mid-six figures at the high end of the common range, with a p25 of $10,000, median of $20,298, and p75 of $57,925. The recent list shows a mix of one-time and recurring support: several grantees appear in multiple years, including Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, University of Arizona Foundation, Tucson Hebrew Academy, Interfaith Community Services, Tucson Jewish Community Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and American Israel Education Fdn. The foundation is structured as a community foundation, and the available profile indicates donor advised funds and philanthropic services as part of its model. Grants are described in the data as general support, support, and core/organizational support, which points to flexible funding rather than a single program application track.
