The following Jewish organizations are listed among the Philanthropy 400, an annual list of America’s top charities published by the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Rankings are determined by the amount of income from private support for a given year. The figures represent funds raised in 1998.
Rank Philanthropy Income: Private Income: Total
44. United Jewish Appeal — Federation
of Jewish Philanthropies of N.Y. $156,908,030 $202,595,131
55. Jewish Communal Fund $137,608,929 $168,262,226
92. Jewish Federation/Jewish United
Fund of Metropolitan Chicago $95,510,029 $138,608,630
133. Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist
Organization of America $74,119,801 $157,948,910
139. Jewish Community Federation of
San Francisco, the Peninsula, $71,133,212 $95,886,967
Marin and Sonoma Counties
155. United Jewish Foundation and Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit $65,846,576 $72,365,205
165. Jewish Community Federation
of Cleveland $61,156,405 $91,845,492
176. Combined Jewish Philanthropies
of Greater Boston $57,458,054 $76,116,405
193. Yeshiva University $53,160,417 $438,742,641
219. The Associated: Jewish Community
Federation of Baltimore $44,715,806 $59,701,223
224. American Society for Technion
— Israel Institute of Technology $44,038,992 $65,387,950
225. Anti-Defamation League $43,984,457 $46,417,023
236. Jewish Federation Council
of Greater Los Angeles $41,470,209 $52,467,902
238. Brandeis University $41,252,692 $229,998,429
242. Jewish Federation
of Greater Philadelphia $39,787,000 $47,497,000
264. American Friends of
the Hebrew University $36,079,049 $65,177,004
281. Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta $34,439,055 $43,986,119
285. United Jewish Federation of Metrowest $33,529,208 $46,957,564
297. American Committee for
the Weizmann Institute of Science $31,861,000 $51,036,000
315. Jewish National Fund $29,894,130 $31,491,321
334. The Jewish Federation
of Greater Washington $27,842,820 $32,245,308
347. The Jewish Theological Seminary
of America $27,063,320 $27,063,320
351. P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds $26,843,032 $35,029,096
357. Jewish Federation of
South Palm Beach County $26,516,981 $46,968,880
358. Greater Miami Jewish Federation $26,467,347 $37,278,746
359. American Jewish Committee $26,448,773 $33,223,948
384. Jewish Federation
of Palm Beach County $23,701,761 $26,161,959
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