The Jewish Fund Annual Report 2018-2019

The Jewish Fund

Financial Statements

Summary of Net Assets and Grants Since Inception (in Millions)

For the year ending May 31, 2019, The Jewish Fund had a total return of 12.8% and the investment’s asset value was $61.6 million. The table above summarizes The Fund’s historic asset balances since its inception in 1997. During the 2019 fiscal year, The Jewish Fund awarded over $3 million in grants, representing the one-year payments of multi-year and single-year grants. Since inception, The Fund has awarded nearly $66 million in grants.

Board of Directors

The Jewish Fund

Nancy Grosfeld
Chair

Michael Eizelman
Vice Chair

Jim Bellinson
Michael Berger
Roselyn Komisar Blanck
Penny Blumenstein*
Jeffrey M. Davidson
Elyse Foltyn
Jeffrey D. Forman, M.D.
Lynda Giles, Ph.D.
Renee Handelsman, M.D.
Laura A. Hughes
Alan Jay Kaufman
Scott Kaufman
Sherri L. Ketai
Ronald A. Klein
Mark L. Kowalsky
Anessa Kramer
Richard Krugel, M.D.*
Lawrence Lax

Beverly Liss
Rabbi Harold S. Loss
Michael W. Maddin*
Robert H. Naftaly*
Marcie Hermelin Orley
Susie Pappas
Marta Rosenthal
Susie Schechter
Jeffrey B. Schlussel
Mark E. Schlussel*
Karen Sosnick Schoenberg*
Alexis J. Schostak
Kelly Sternberg
Leah Trosch
Michael R. Tyson
Hon. Helene White
Lawrence A. Wolfe

Dorothy Benyas
Secretary / Treasurer

Robert Sosnick זצ״ל
Mark E. Schlussel
Co-Founding Chairs

*Past Chairs

Staff of The Jewish Fund

Margo Pernick
Executive Director

Martha Goldberg
Teen Board Coordinator

Lauren Rouff
Teen Board Facilitator: Year 2

Kristin Moskovitz
Grants Management Coordinator


Teen Board

Year One

Emily Abrams
Eric Adelson
Jenna Anderson
Jane Borenstein
Chase Brodsky
Elisha Cooper
Matthew Doctoroff
Abby Foltyn
Lily Foltyn
Evan Israel
Isabel Jacobson
Elliot Kaftan
Darby Krugel
Jesse Krugel
Yaffa Magier
Max Morganroth
Aria Peterson
Haylie Polakoff
Barry Sabin
Shira Schon
Joseph Schwartz
Gabriel Singer
Robert Victor
Ilan Weiss
Sam Wittenberg
Isabel Zaltz
Zoe Zaltz

Year Two

Elijah Appelman
Sam Arnold
Chase Colton
Maddie Feinstein
Benny Fellows
Jessica Goldberg
Noa Green
Bree Gross
Nia Kepes
Adin Kleinfeldt
Elan Krakoff
Evan Krasnick
Lilley Kroll
Sloane Krugel
Mara Sabin
Jacob Schlussel
Leah Segal
Benny Shaevsky
Jordan Shefman
Adam Silberg
Eliana Silverman
Jack Wander

Teen Board Leadership Council Members

Jeremy Berger
Kate Gordon
Atara Kresch

Ellie Rothstein
Jordyn Taylor
Anna Warshay