Dear friends,

The Jonah Maccabee Foundation is grateful for you. Because of your gifts, and only because of your gifts, we are able to award grants to remarkable organizations that are doing amazing work in making the world a better home for us all.

With abundant gratitude for your support, here’s how we used your donations in 2025.

We cannot thank you enough for allowing us to honor Jonah’s memory by joining with you to make the world a better home for all.

Very sincerely,
Ellen, Billy, Katie and Aiden

“For America” Fund

• Campaign Legal Center … a nonpartisan legal organization dedicated to solving the wide range of challenges facing American democracy
• Democracy Forward … using the law to defend our democracy and build for a better future by providing free legal representation and expert counsel to people and communities across America
• National Immigrant Justice Center … keeps families together, protects neighbors from deportation, and ensures someone can start a new life in the U.S.
• Immigrant Defenders Law Center … defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system
• Northwest Immigrant Justice Center … promotes justice by defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education
• The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project … provides free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in Arizona who face immigration removal proceedings, endeavoring to ensure each immigrant has access to counsel, understands their rights under the law, and is treated fairly and humanely
• Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights … advocates for the rights and best interests of immigrant children, from custody and release to the ultimate decision about whether the child will be allowed to remain in the U.S.
• The Borgen Project … works to make extreme poverty a focus of influential nations’ foreign policy
• United Negro College Fund … awards more than 10,000 students scholarships annually, and provides financial support to 37 historically black colleges and universities
• Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry … providing food for neighbors in this part of Westchester County, NY, who struggle to make a living, work two or three jobs, or are seniors for whom it’s become increasingly difficult to live on a fixed income
• HUC-JIR Soup Kitchen … provides food and support to people in need around the New York campus neighborhood of the Reform Jewish seminary, Hebrew Union College.
• Feeding Westchester … working alongside nearly 175 partners, sourcing and distributing food and other resources to communities across Westchester, New York, helping to ensure that none go hungry

Jewish Life Fund

• 6 Points Creative Arts Academy … a summer camp that strives to create holistic, meaningful experiences for young artists in a living laboratory for learning and performing
• A Queer Nigun Project … singing as a collective healing practice for LGBTQIA+ community, queer BIJOCSM community, and incarcerated people in the Jewish community
• Rabbis for Human Rights … an Israeli organization that works within the Occupied Territories to promote social and economic justice within Israel
• Makom Community … creates family-centered Jewish experiences in Philadelphia
• Religious Action Center (RAC) of Reform Judaism … works to educate, inspire, and mobilize the Reform Jewish Movement to advocate for social justice

Social Justice Fund

• American Indian College Fund … supports Native student access to higher education. With only 14% of American Indians earning college degrees (less than half the national average), AICF empowers 4000 American Indian students annually to start and stay in school, complete degrees and launch careers.
• IsraAID … in Gaza (especially during the recent blockade), Israelies providing direct humanitarian aid assistance
• Paws Crossed Animal Shelter … works to create a better world for pets and for people as a unified community, best fulfilled through rescue, rehabilitation, rehoming, advocacy, collaboration and education
• Creating S.P.A.C.E. … provides a cohesive education program in Denver, CO, that engages communities to embrace all differences and disabilities
• Penn Medicine Iris B. Siegel Retinitis Pigmentosa Research Fund … working to crack the genetic code that holds the cure for this chronic eye disease
• Lifting Up Westchester Summer Camp and Youth Services … gives children who are experiencing homelessness in Westchester County, New York, a safe space filled with fun and games, plus literacy activities that help them retain the past year’s school lessons, preparing for success when the new school year begins, then stays with them to help ensure success throughout the entire year
• Institute for Multipartisan Education … dedicated to sustainably increasing and improving capacity for curious approaches to difference and disagreement in educational settings
• World Central Kitchen … despite ongoing and dire risk in Gaza, WCK’s Palestinian team shows up daily, providing more than 100,000 meals each day by land, sea, and air
• United Help Ukraine … provides the people of Ukraine with critical humanitarian support (first-aid, food and water) that will enable them to survive in the face of current adversity
• The Children’s Village … dedicated to the prevention of child and family separation, temporary care and treatment for youth who cannot remain with family, support for youth development and transition, and a wide array of community investments that includes crisis response and model housing development
• Animal Love Rescue Center in Costa Rica … a non-profit, no-kill charitable organization, founded on the belief that all animals deserve respectful and loving treatment and must be protected by humans as well as by law
• New York Cares … meeting urgent needs of New Yorkers, from ensuring families have enough to eat, to helping children succeed in school, and making sure no one goes without a warm coat in winter

Arts Fund

• MindLeaps … creates educational paths for vulnerable children by engaging them in fun dance classes that are part of a carefully crafted curriculum to develop key cognitive and social-emotional skills vital to success in school and work
• Play Group Theatre … “preparing kids for every stage in life,” PGT understands that rather than the show what’s most important when kids do theatre is learning collaboration, sharpening listening skills, embracing creativity, and treating one another with honor
• Treehouse Shakers … provides teacher trainings and residencies for students that focus on the art of dance and storytelling
• Harmony Project … provides no-cost, high-quality music instruction and social support to underserved children in low-income communities throughout Los Angeles, motivating them to cultivate their human potential
• Sing Unto God … works to elevate the practice of communal singing and meaningful worship for any person, congregation, or community wanting to learn about or experience the transformative power of uniting voices
• 52nd Street Project … creates and produces new plays for, and often by, kids ages 9-18 who reside in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City
• D’Addario Foundation … provides access to music education as an essential and effective tactic in the fight against marginalization, annually supporting over 200 non-profit organizations bringing music back into our communities and schools