TOGETHER, WE GIVE GENEROUSLY AND BUILD FOR GENERATIONS.
Impact Report for year ending December 31, 2024
MISSION
We strengthen our community to better our world.
VISION
Empowering Jewish philanthropists with counsel, connections and resources to elevate their impact.
& CEO
Lifting our Communities
This past year marked a historic milestone for The Foundation. Together with our clients, we proudly directed a record-breaking $207 million in grants to 3,320 organizations across Los Angeles, Israel, and around the world —the most ever in our history. This extraordinary achievement reflects the power of collective generosity and a shared commitment to building a better future.
Thanks to strong investment returns and the continued growth of our client base, we now steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets, placing The Foundation among the largest Jewish community foundations in the nation.
At the heart of this success is a deep dedication to our community. Our clients bring vision and passion for the causes they care about. The Foundation provides philanthropic expertise and deep knowledge to elevate their impact. Together, we help establish family legacies of giving, respond to urgent crises near and far, and build multi-generational relationships rooted in shared values.
We are profoundly grateful to you—our community—for entrusting The Foundation as your partner in philanthropy. Your commitment enables us to fulfill our mission: strengthening our community to better our world.
With gratitude,
Rabbi Aaron Lerner President & CEO
N. Schwartz Board Chair
Mark
Rabbi Aaron Lerner President
Mark N. Schwartz Board Chair
Investing in Jewish Values
2024 AT A GLANCE
$1.5B
Total Assets Under Management
$710M Donor Advised Funds
A donor advised fund is a strategic, flexible, and tax-efficient way to support the causes that matter most to you.
$272M Family Support Organizations
FSO’s help individuals and families navigate the complexities of giving and ensure values are transmitted across generations.
$309M Endowment Funds
An endowment empowers you to create a lasting legacy, ensuring your values and philanthropic impact continues for generations to come.
$176M Agency Funds
Established by Jewish nonprofits to manage their endowments and reserve funds.
2024 TOTAL GRANTMAKING
Grants to nonprofits make our community better by strategically investing in current and emerging needs and fostering long-term resilience whether here in Los Angeles, in Israel or around the world. Together we made grants to protect our community, respond to emergencies and strengthen nonprofits to expand services, innovate programs and serve vulnerable populations.
$207M $82M Los Angeles $24M Israel $101M Jewish Community
GRANTMAKING BY AREA OF INTEREST
$58M Human Services
$52M Jewish Life $35M Education $27M Health, Sciences, and the Environment $27M Civic Life $6M Art and Culture $2M Other
Grantmaking in Focus
In this year’s report, we’re spotlighting grantmaking stories from 2025 to illustrate how the strategic decisions, partnerships, and investments made in 2024 are already bearing fruit. These stories reflect the momentum we built last year—and the transformative outcomes that followed.
LOOKING AHEAD: HOW 2024 SET THE STAGE FOR 2025 IMPACT
Security for the Jewish Community
52 Jewish nonprofits across Los Angeles received special security grants. These grants were awarded through a collaboration between The Foundation, JFedLA and the Jewish Federations of North America’s 2025 Emergency Security Fund in partnership with the Tepper Foundation. The grants provide vital security personnel for Jewish institutions primarily serving children. These include 31 synagogues, 12 schools, four camps, and five community centers and other nonprofits.
Los Angeles Wildfires
The 2025 wildfires caused widespread devastation across Los Angeles, significantly impacting the Jewish community. In response The Foundation, together with our clients, contributed over $2.5 million to support those impacted by the wildfires. This included grants for direct relief to help congregants at 26 synagogues who lost homes and businesses. While these efforts are ongoing, the need for recovery and rebuilding remain substantial within the community.
Helping Israel heal and rebuild in the aftermath of October 7
Together, we are responding to urgent needs on the ground while remaining agile to meet emerging challenges. Since October 7, 2023 Foundation clients have awarded more than 1,100 grants totaling $10 million, including institutional grants, with a strong focus on mental health support, services for at-risk youth and advancing social cohesion. This collective effort reflects our shared commitment to long-term recovery and resilience for the people of Israel.
Emergency Needs Assistance
Established with seed funding from an anonymous client in 2022, The Foundation’s “Direct Hardship Relief” initiative provided trusted social service providers with funds to help their constituents address one-time critical needs that could not be met through existing resources. This initiative has continuously demonstrated strong impact and the dollars awarded have increased each year via investment from the seed funder and additional passionate clients.
Building for the Future
Endowments are a powerful tool for lasting impact. By creating an endowment at The Foundation, you provide a permanent source of funding that helps organizations plan confidently, weather economic shifts, and sustain vital programs for generations. Endowments reflect a deep commitment to mission and legacy—and when you entrust The Foundation to manage yours, you’re partnering with a team known for integrity, experience, and thoughtful stewardship of your philanthropic vision.
ENDOWMENT FUNDS
Anonymous
Dr. Herbert B. & Freda Alexander
M. Allenberg
Jacob J. & Fayga Alpert
Irving & Shirley Ashkenas
Bobbi Asimow Memorial
Ben & Sarah Baran
Max & Anna Baran
Milton Baran
Ralph & Janice Baxter
Ada M. Bay
Elly Bayer Family
Harriet Beck
Esther & Ralph Bedrock
Theresa Bell Lion of Judah
Dr. Benjamin M. Bendat
Irving & Jeannette Benveniste
J.B. Berland
Ben Berman & Shirley Rogers Berman
Boruchin Family Scholarship Fund
Beth Chayim Chadashim
Julius & Rose Bisno
BJE Ulpan
Stanley H. Black
Eric & Paula Bloom
Drew Andrew Blumberg
Harry & Anna Borun
$309M Total Endowment Funds 2024
Charles H. & Kharlene Boxenbaum
Jacqueline Briskin
Samuel J. Briskin
Frances Brody
Caron Broidy
Alvin Bronstein
Carolyn & Gerald Bronstein
Anne Elaine Brown
Charles Brown
Lynette Brown
Earl & Norma Bubar Family
Irwin Buchalter
Stuart Buchalter Memorial
George Burns
Dr. Maxwell S. & Betty C. Cagan
Carlan Family
Daniella Shaina Lee Casper
Chabad Jewish Community Center
Colette Chanel
Abram & Sylvia Chasens
Chaverim Fund For Jewish Disabled
Rose Chorna
Rabbi Bernard & Ethel Cohen
Max Cohen
Roselyn Cohen
Jacob & Zlata Colloff
Dorothy Corwin
Lisa Anne Corwin
Evelyn Kuznitsoff Couzen
Allan B. Cutrow
Cutrow Family
Czuker Family
Lissi E. Danelius
David G. & Bella L. Davis
Albert DeBro
Ronald P. Denitz
Donal S. & Phyllis N. Dreifus
Constance & Sydney Dunitz
Edmond Family
Marvin & Ruth Elfenbein
Barbara & Robert Ellison
Louie Ember
Randy Entin Memorial
Doris Factor
Janet Farber
Milton & Olga Farbstein
Mimi Alpert Feldman
Dorothy Fenmore
Julia Fischer
Ida Fleischer
Alex & Lilly Forro
David & Rena Fox
Howard & Evelyn Fox
Rose Freeman
Mac & Belle Friedman
Galanter Family
Josephine Gang
Martin Gang
Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown
Martin Gaynor
Jerry Gerard
Sol & Ruth Gerber
Susie Gesundheit
Abraham & Doris Getzler
Bessie Gillis
Isadore & Mildred Ginsberg
George Gittelson
Harry Gittelson
Marcus Glaser
Morris & Sally Gluck
Jerry & Jeanine Goldberg
Murray & Mildred Goldberg
David & Freda Goldstein
Roslyn Goldstine
William & Alfrieda E. Goldwyn
Regina R. Golomb
Julius Goodman
Samuel Gordon
Lena Gorelick
Jeanne B. Goren
Osias & Dorothy Goren
Fay Bettye Green
Ike & Peggy Greenberg
Grinel Family
Arthur Groman
Herman Gronauer
Sam & Bessie Gutlin
Emmy Haarmann
Marilyn & Monty Hall
Elisa Heather Halpern
D. Handler
Edith & Joseph Harris
Fannie Hartman
Irwin Held
Larry Held
Masha S. Henley
Stephen Herr
Linda Hess
Dr. Arnie & Fern Heyman
Rosalyn R. Shostak Heyman Memorial
Walter Hilborn
Herbert Hill
Leo & Pauline Hirsh
Benjamin Horowitz
Ely Jacobs
Leo Jacobs
Jewish Big Brothers Camp
Max Straus Fund
Jewish Community Foundation
Scholarship Fund
JFS Family Violence Project Fund
Stella F. Joseph
Daniel Kalish
Sue M. Kaplan
Rose Karol
Jack Karp
Myrtle A. Karp
Ruth Karp Lion of Judah
Maurice J. & Fay B. Karpf
Alan Kassin Memorial
Helen Miller Katz Memorial
Joan & Richard Katz Family
Sidney & Helen Katz
Stanley F. Katz
David B. Katzin, M.D., Ph.D
Sidney Kaufman
R. Raymond & Edith N. Kay
Sandra Kaye
Ely Keenberg
Michael & Jena King
Berton M. & Barbara R. Kirshner
Sally Kirshner
Louis Kitsis
Gertrude Klein
J. Stanley & Roberta Klein
Lester & Rhea Kleinberg
Morris Knopow
Burnell & Esther Koolish
Carol Koransky
Koreh L.A. Fund
Raymond J. & Shirley R. Kornfeld
Isadore Kragen
Ruth Kranhouse
Dr. Michael Kriegel
Milton & Esther Krieger
Harry & Belle Krupnick
Elsa L. Kunin
Alex Kushner
Sara Federman Hersh Kuttnauer
Lainer Family
Ellie & Mark Lainer
Ellie & Mark Lainer for Hillel 818
Simha & Sara Lainer
Landres Courage for Dignity
Werner & Ellen Lange
Edward Lasher
Ida S. Latz
Gerda Lawrence
Dahlia Lebovitz
Florence Lepon
Leve Family
John Levi
Bernard & Mollie S. Levin
Lillian Levine
Nathan & Bessie Jean Levinsohn
Cyril Lewin
David Licht
Sol Bear & Esther Lipshutz
Jane & Howard Lipstone
Alfred Lisbon
Marcus Loew
William S. Louchheim
Norman & Trudy Louis
Rudy Lugo
Gerald & Gloria Lushing
Ronald Lushing
Bertha Lustig
Erwin Lustig
John Lustig
Max R. Luvin
Artur & Phyllis R. Mager
Magidson Family
Milton & Deborah Malkin
Phyllis Marell
Morris D. Margolis
Estelle Markowitz
Sir Simon Marks
Ronald J. & Steven M. Marsh
Karen & Barry Mason
Linda & Paul Matloff/Carissa & Thomas Ingram
Susan Mattisinko &
Robert S. De Leon
Bernard L. Mayers
Pan & Herb Meadow
Mark M. Meltzer
Edward & Marie Menashe
Rosalie I. Mendel
Charles & Dora Mesnick
Andrew Z. Meyer
Lila Meyers
M. J. Meyers & H. Gladwin
Memorial
Simon Milberg
Anita P. Miller
Samuel & Pauline Miller
Harry & Saree Milstein
Anna Mitchell
Max Mitchell
Rae Mitchell Memorial
Brandi Joy Mitock
Freda Mohr
Jerry & Joy Monkarsh/ Michael & Jodie Rachmil Family
Al & Eve Monson
Suzanne Weiss Morgen
Sadie Verschleiser Musof
Julius & Estelle Nadler
Margaret Nathan
Linda Nathanson
Freda & Arthur Nattenberg
Jeffrey Arnold Nerenstein
Tibor & Erika Neumann
Esther & Stephen Newmark
Hedy Z”| & Ted Z”| Orden Maimonides Scholarship
Hedy Z”| & Ted Z”| Orden Shalhevet Scholarship
Hedy Z”| & Ted Z”| Orden Yula Boys Scholarship
Hedy Z”| & Ted Z”| Orden Yula Girls Scholarship
Ted Orden Memorial
Marjorie F. Oswald
Abner Parker
Max & Bertha Part
Jerome & Faith Pearlman
Jacqueline Pearlson
Irene Perer
Dr. Marvin Perer
Abraham I. Perl
Marianne & Gerhard Pinkus
Bernice Posner
Joyce R. Powell
Julius M. Ratner Memorial
Max Rauch
Herbert Reff
Isidor Reinhard
Irwin A. & Ayola I. Reiss
Julius & Marian Reitkopp
Elliot J. Ripps
Esther Ritterman
Betty Roach
Anna Warner Robins
Edward G. Robinson
Merlyn J. & Lillian W. Robinson
Benjamin Rogowitz
Ernest & Irma Rose
Lois Rosen Family
Lucille L. Rosenberg
Lily Rosman
Michael & Irene Ross
N. Joseph & Jeanette S. Ross
Abe J. Roth
Dan & Jayne Rothblatt
Elisa Joy Rubin
Stella Rugeti
Violet Goldberg Sachs
Morris & Rebecca Sallus
Salter Family
Dr. Bernard G. & Rhoda G. Sarnat
Isador Saul
Eugene Sax
Leo & Julia Schaner
Anne Schechter
Frances Schermer
Oskar Schindler
Aviva Schotland
Daniel & Marieka Schotland
Dorothy & Lou Schotland
Sandra & Marvin Schotland
Paul Schreier
Esther Schulman
Beatrice Schultz
Ellen M. Schwartz
Joseph & Elizabeth Schwartz
Marcia Schwartz
William S. Schwartz
Larraine Segil
Jack & Ruth Seltzer
Nathan Seltzer
Alfred A. Shapiro
Arthur & Bernice Shapiro
David Shapiro Memorial
Jayne Shapiro Family
Meyer & Rhoda Shapiro
Esther Sherberg
Sherman Family
Howard & Stephanie Sherwood
David & Sophia Shuwarger
Michael & Bernice Shuwarger
Sanford C. Sigoloff
Henry Silver
Jack & Rita Sinder
Sidney Skolnik
Harry N. Smith
Terri & Michael Smooke
Victoria H. Sperry
Sidney & Marcia Spiegel
Robert Stein
Arleen Rose Steiner & Allen Edward Steiner
Steinberg Family
Charlotte Stern
Jacob Hillel Stern
Peter & Joan Stone
Nathan Straus
Helen Strosberg
Sunair Foundation Endowment Fund
The Sweetie Endowment
Stanley & Lottie Talpis
Irving Thalberg, Jr.
Sarah Tolchinsky
Ellwood Ullman
USC Lecture Fund
Volpert Family
Richard S. Volpert
Sam Wachbrit
Steven Wallace
Florence Wayne
Abe & Ethel Weinberg
Elka Weiner Lion of Judah
Ernest Weissberg
Theodore & Goldie Weisstein
David Weisz
Sylvia Weisz
Elayne & Walter Wentz
Katherine Westheimer
Manuel & Barbara Wertheimer
Fannie P. Wienir
Daniel Wiggins
Billy Wilder
Ethel H. Wilk
Charles & Betty S. Wilson
Stanley D. Winderman
Bernice Wolf
Allen S. & Ruth Ziegler
Harold J. & Anita Zivetz
Millie Zone
Max & Lucille Zuckerman
SENIOR MANAGEMENT STAFF
Rabbi Aaron Lerner President & CEO
Lewis Groner Vice President, Community Relations
Dan Rothblatt Executive Vice President
Robert Avery Vice President of Finance and HR
Deborah Johnston Senior Vice President, Finance & Administration / CFO
Doris Schwartz Head of Strategic Implementation
Steve Gamer Senior Vice President, Chief Advancement Officer
Ellen Rosen Vice President and General Counsel
Naomi Strongin Senior Vice President, Center for Designed Philanthropy
Georgina Baquet Senior Manager, Data Strategy and Client Experience
Heather Baroff Donor Stewardship Associate
Megan Davis
Senior Philanthropy Advisor –Israel & Combatting Antisemitism, Center for Designed Philanthropy
June Del Rosario Accountant/Payroll Specialist
Warren Fong
Senior Philanthropy Advisor, Center for Designed Philanthropy
Charlotte Friedman Senior Program Officer, Center for Designed Philanthropy
Cynthia Jones Investment Accountant
Dedrick Knox Human Resources Generalist and Office Manager
Iris Manlapid Foundation Secretary
Kate Martin Executive and Board Liaison
Daniel Maya Director of Investments and Performance Reporting
Marissa Nachman Program Officer, Center for Designed Philanthropy
DeWayne Nash General Ledger Accountant
Abigail Ortiz Sosa Grants Management Associate
Tamara Pickering Manager of Technology Solutions
Sarina Raby Grants Manager
Sydney Silverman Marketing Manager
Audrey Tseng Development Assistant
Allen Zhang Controller
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Mark N. Schwartz* Chair
Martin S. Appel **
Lynn Bider
Melissa Held Bordy
Anthony Chanin* Treasurer
Allan B. Cutrow**
William R. Feiler**
Lorin M. Fife**
Mindy Freedman
Thomas A. Heymann
Daniella Naim Kahen
Stacy Reznikoff Kent* Vice Chair
Jeffrey H. Kinrich
Mark Lainer**
Jeffrey Loeb* Vice Chair
*Officer **Past Chair
Matthew Louchheim
Marcia Weiner Mankoff*
Secretary
Heidi Monkarsh
Lawrence Rauch**
Nurit I. Robin
Marc Rohatiner
Scott Sandler* Vice Chair
Evan Schlessinger**
Elana Rodan Schuldt
Alexandra Shabtai
Annette Shapiro**
Andrea Sonnenberg
Adam J. Weiss* Vice Chair
Cathy Siegel Weiss**
