About Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community
Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community helps families and individuals define and achieve their charitable goals while helping to strengthen the Jewish community through donor advised funds, endowment management, philanthropic planning and legacy programs.
Focus Areas
Jewish community supportPhilanthropy and donor advisingEndowment and legacy givingHumanitarian aidCommunity grants
About Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community
A recurring pattern in Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community’s recent grantmaking is large charitable gifts to Jewish institutions in Charlotte, led by a $2,167,468 grant to Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte in 2025. The same recipient also received $1,690,718 in 2024 and $959,640 in 2023, showing a sustained relationship rather than a one-time award. Other sizable gifts support Jewish communal infrastructure in Charlotte, including $693,904 to Sandra and Leon Levine Jewish Community Center in 2025, $620,000 to Foundation of Shalom Park Inc in 2023, and $459,757 to Temple Beth El in 2024. Beyond the core Jewish network, the foundation also backs civic, educational, and health-related institutions in Charlotte and beyond, with seven-figure gifts in the recent list to Discovery Place Inc and Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation. The pattern suggests a funder that combines donor-directed charitable giving with substantial support for community institutions, especially organizations connected to Jewish life in Charlotte. Its grant record also includes recipients outside Charlotte, such as Appalachian State University Foundation Inc, University of Chicago, and American Israel Education Foundationinc, indicating a regional and occasionally national reach through charitable gifts.
What Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community Funds
Jewish community support is the clearest throughline in the recent grants list. The foundation gave $377,957 to Temple Beth El in 2025 and $264,600 to Temple Israel in 2025, alongside $242,875 to Charlotte Jewish Day School Inc. Those awards sit alongside major support for Jewish communal hubs such as Sandra and Leon Levine Jewish Community Center and Foundation of Shalom Park Inc. The foundation also funds broad civic and educational institutions. It gave $1,000,000 to Discovery Place Inc in 2025 and $1,000,000 to Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation in 2023, and it awarded $855,000 to Queens University of Charlotte in 2023. Human services and community safety-net organizations appear as well. Recent grants include $272,500 to Loaves and Fishesfriendship Trays Inc, $260,000 to Crisis Assistance Ministry, and $250,000 to Charlotte Family Housing Inc, showing support for food, emergency assistance, and housing-related needs.
How Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community Gives
Typical grant size clusters around $10,000 at the 25th percentile, $20,000 at the median, and $70,000 at the 75th percentile, while the recent grants list also includes a much larger set of donor-directed charitable gifts. The recipient pattern is recurring rather than one-off: Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte, Temple Beth El, Temple Israel, Sandra and Leon Levine Jewish Community Center, Foundation of Shalom Park Inc, and University of Chicago each appear multiple times across the list. The foundation operates through donor advised funds, endowment management, philanthropic planning, legacy programs, and donor-directed grants. Some programs accept unsolicited applications through an online grants center, while donor-directed grantmaking is driven by fund advisor recommendations or donor instructions.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$8.5M
Total Assets
$228.6M
Total Revenue
$11.7M
Total Expenses
$11.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $70K, with a median of $20K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$20K
75th Percentile
$70K
Geographic Reach
Regional18 states funded
About 67% of grants go to recipients in NC.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
ALYSSA FEDERICO
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