Message from TJF Leadership

Honoring the values of OUR MISSION T.E.A.M. tzedakah and tikkun olam, the Tidewater Jewish Foundation TOGETHER EVERYONE ACHIEVES MORE is dedicated to creating permanent resources to meet the challenges and needs of the Jewish community. TJF educates individuals, families, and its affiliates on the OR TRAIN, EDUCATE, ATTRACT, MOTIVATE On behalf of everyone involved in the Tidewater Jewish Foundation we must tip our caps and say THANK YOU to everyone for our impact over the last year. Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM). Our TEAM came to play as a very strong, dynamic, and caring community from individual donors, congregations, and community affiliated agencies and rewards of philanthropy and facilitates the philanthropic organizations. Our local community, state, country and world has seen and witnessed events this year that one would never have expected, together we came to HELP in many ways. The TEAM effort shown in supporting the needs process through planned of those fleeing or staying during the war in Ukraine, the growing number of young philanthropists, Bnai Mitzvah Teens, starting B’nai Tzedek funds, the giving and endowments. number of new funds opened at the foundation this year, the additional dollars raised for the Foundation’s Community Impact Grants, the number of legacy gifts secured through year 5 of the LIFE & LEGACY program throughout Hampton Roads are further examples of our TEAMS’s efforts and SUCCESSES. Our TEAM is EVERYONE. Together, we Train, Educate, Attract and Motivate others. This is another example of how our TEAM works. As we continue to grow and build for the future THANKS from the bottom of our hearts. Please continue to support TJF in any way possible. Each one of us can play a role in leaving a legacy to support this vibrant Jewish community. Whether you give a $1,000,000 or $1,000. The key to our success is getting everyone to know about the foundation and find it to be their philanthropic home plate. The foundation is here to train and educate the community about the need to secure our future, attract donors and their advisors to engage in multi-generational conversations and philanthropic planning. Professional advisors will find a willing partner at the Foundation responsive to them and their clients’ philanthropic wishes. We work together with our community’s cherished congregations and affiliate agencies to grow their endowments through donor engagement and conversation. We motivate all ages to consider the legacy and impact they wish to make to ensure a vibrant community from generation to generation. Please do not hesitate to call and ask a question or two, but most importantly ask yourself how I can help carry my legacy forward from generation to generation. This is how our TEAM works. Thanks for joining in and playing along together with us.

The Tidewater Jewish Foundation would like to extend its sincerest appreciation to The Colony Group, LLC for their continued and generous support of this annual report.

Charles Nusbaum

Chairperson

Naomi Limor Sedek

President & CEO

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 Message from TJF Leadership 4 Choosing TJF 5 Highlights of the Year 7 Your stories, Your Impact 9 Community Impact Grants 10 Fundholder Generosity 11 LIFE & LEGACY® 12 Financial Summary 14 LOJE & PACE 15 Simon Family Legacy Society 17 Donor Advised Philanthropic Funds 18 Permanently Endowed and Special Purpose Funds

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