Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$2,000,435

Total expenses

$1,833,944

Contributions and grants received

$1,986,825

Grants paid

$1,001,354

Program service revenue

$11,432

Investment income

$2,178

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$1,244,983

Total liabilities, end of year

$216,344

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,028,639

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,519,793

Management and general expenses

$165,856

Fundraising expenses

$148,295

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,519,793

Program services were 82.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• JEWISH EDUCATION AND JEWISH LIFE CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION SUPPORTS AGENCIES AND INITIATIVES TO CULTIVATE JEWISH LIFE AND JEWISH EDUCATION LOCALLY AND WORLDWIDE. REMEMBER PROGRAM FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION AND GENOCIDE AWARENESS THE REMEMBER PROGRAM CONNECTS THE GREATER CHARLESTON COMMUNITY TO THE LESSONS OF THE HOLOCAUST AND PROVIDES RESOURCES TO HELP ENSURE THAT WE NEVER FORGET. THROUGH OUR SPEAKER'S BUREAU, WE REACH THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS EACH YEAR WITH STORIES OF SURVIVAL AND RESILIENCE. OFTENTIMES A SPEAKER WILL PARTICIPATE IN A DAFFODIL PLANTING THROUGH OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DAFFODIL PROJECT, (CONT. SCH. O)

  Expenses $270,388 · Grants $73,333

• CREATING A COMMUNITY OF SHARED RESPONSIBILITY: VULNERABLE POPULATIONS AS JEWS, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING CARE OF OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING ITS MOST VULNERABLE MEMBERS. FROM CARING FOR LOCAL JEWISH COMMUNITY NEEDS THROUGH THE KOSHER FOOD PANTRY TO CARING FOR JEWISH REFUGEES IN UKRAINE, WE HELP ENSURE THAT NO ONE IS LEFT BEHIND. THIS YEAR, OUR ISRAEL AND OVERSEAS COMMITTEE HAS MADE GENEROUS ALLOCATIONS TO THE JDC AND THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL.

  Expenses $225,315 · Grants $225,315 · Revenue $4,518

• ENGAGING THE NEXT GENERATION YOUNG JEWISH CHARLESTON (YJC) YOUNG JEWISH CHARLESTON PROVIDES A SPACE FOR ADULTS IN THEIR 20S AND 30S TO CONNECT SOCIALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY, THUS CULTIVATING A CLOSE SENSE OF FELLOWSHIP AND ENHANCING THE INHERENTLY FAMILIAL NATURE OF THE CHARLESTON JEWISH COMMUNITY. WHETHER YOU ARE AN ESTABLISHED CHARLESTONIAN OR HAVE JUST MOVED TO TOWN, YJC EMBRACES ALL YOUNG JEWISH ADULTS. YOUNG JEWISH CHARLESTON ACCEPTS AND APPRECIATES THE INVOLVEMENT OF INTERFAITH AND INTERCULTURAL COUPLES, MAINTAINING A FIRM IDEOLOGY OF INCLUSION AMONGST CHARLESTON'S JEWISH POPULATION. (CONT. SCH. O)

  Expenses $527,824 · Grants $291,816 · Revenue $6,914

• STRENGTHENING OUR CONNECTION TO ISRAEL AND JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD ISRAEL ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD MORE MEANINGFUL FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE THAN ISRAEL. WHILE THE ANCIENT LAND OF ISRAEL HAS ALWAYS BEEN HOME TO THE JEWS, SINCE 1948, THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL HAS COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A JEW. BECAUSE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, JEWS HAVE A NATIONAL IDENTITY, WHEREVER THEY LIVE. HERE AT THE CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION, WE BELIEVE THAT ISRAEL IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAYS TO CONNECT NORTH AMERICAN JEWS OF ALL AGES TO THEIR HERITAGE, AND THEREBY STRENGTHEN OUR CONNECTIONS TO THE LOCAL JEWISH COMMUNITY AND THE WORLDWIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY. WE ALSO KNOW THAT ISRAELIS GET MORE INVOLVED, MORE CONNECTED, AND MORE AWARE OF THEIR JEWISH IDENTITY WHEN THEY HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH JEWS OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL. PARTNERSHIP 2GETHER PARTNERSHIP 2GETHER (P2G) CREATES RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF THE HADERA-EIRON REGION IN ISRAEL, 11 SOUTHEASTERN US COMMUNITIES, AND THE NEWEST ADDITION TO THE PARTNERSHIP, PRAGUE. HERE IN CHARLESTON, THAT HAS MANIFESTED ITSELF IN PEER-TO-PEER PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG LEADERS, CUSTOMIZED TOURING AND HOME HOSPITALITY IN THE REGION FOR CHARLESTONIANS WHO VISIT ISRAEL, AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING TO CONNECT TEACHERS AND STUDENTS. THANKS TO THIS PARTNERSHIP, THE FUTURE OF CHARLESTON'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL IS STRONGER THAN EVER. ISRAEL EMERGENCY CAMPAIGN & SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL DURING THESE CHALLENGING TIMES.

  Expenses $496,266 · Grants $410,890

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA

  $343,000

  ISRAEL SOLIDARITY FD

• JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA

  $157,100

  ISRAEL AID

• ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY

  $98,834

  TUITION AND SUPPORT

• SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC

  $75,988

  SECURITY

• JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER CHARLESTON

  $65,269

  GENERAL SUPPORT

• JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA

  $44,540

  ISRAEL OVERSEAS

• JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA

  $44,099

  ASSISTANCE & PROGRAM

• KAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM

  $25,000

  PROGRAM SUPPORT

• COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA

  $25,000

  ENDOWMENT

• CONGREGATION DOR TIKVAH INC

  $18,333

  YOUTH PROGRAMS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

1 May 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

202401229349302940

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