Jewish Family and Children's Services
Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS), based in San Francisco, California, is a Form 990 public charity founded in 1850. It provides human services to people of all faiths and backgrounds across San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin County, and Sonoma County, and also makes grants to other organizations.
Jewish Family and Children's Services at a glance
In short: Jewish Family and Children's Services gave $424K across 20 grants in 2025 (avg $21K), top state California. 60% of 2025 grantees were new. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $423,550
- -81.0% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 20
- +25.0% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $21,178
- -84.8% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $11,500
- Total assets
- $254,793,066
- +7.9% vs 2024
- New grantees (estimate)
- 60% first-time grantees (12 of 20, 2025; small sample)
- Primary geography
- California (41% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026. New grantees are estimated by matching recipient names across years (methodology).
How to apply to Jewish Family and Children's Services
- Contact
Mailing address: PO Box 159004, San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: (415) 449-1200
Website: https://jfcs.org
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Who Jewish Family and Children's Services funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 10 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was American National Red Cross ($57K). Together the top 10 received $332K.
Grant Size Distribution
113 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 98 grants of 113 (87%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
JFCS describes its service area as San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin County, and Sonoma County. In 2025, grant dollars went to recipients in California (41%), Washington, DC (27%), New York (26%), Massachusetts (3%), and Oregon (2%).
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 20 itemized grants.
States
Cities
Is Jewish Family and Children's Services open to new grantees?
60%
first-time grantees, 2025
In 2025, 12 of 20 grantees (60%) were first-time recipients. With only 20 grantees, that is a small sample: one grantee more or less moves the share by about 5 points. First grants averaged $22K; repeat grants $20K. How we count
Medians: $11K first-time, $15K repeat.
Estimate from itemized grant lists in IRS Form 990 filings (2019–2025). Recipient names are matched across years, so a renamed or misspelled grantee can look new; grants to individuals are left out. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $161K (2020) to $2.2M (2024). In 2025 it made 20 grants totaling $424K.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| American National Red Cross Washington, DC | Program Support | $57,250 |
| Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc New York, NY | Program Support | $50,000 |
| Joseph Weingarten Chabad Jewish Center Santa Rosa, CA | Program Support | $50,000 |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington, DC | Program Support | $50,000 |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc San Francisco, CA | Program Support | $31,000 |
| Congregation Beth Sholom San Francisco, CA | Program Support | $28,600 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America New York, NY | Program Support | $20,200 |
| PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc New York, NY | Program Support | $19,500 |
| Treasure Island Sailing Center Foundation San Francisco, CA | Program Support | $13,000 |
| Meet International Inc Boston, MA | Program Support | $12,500 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $254,793,066 | $82,442,367 | $74,445,787 | $423,550 | 20 | $2,883,578 |
| 2024 | $236,051,915 | $66,969,226 | $62,187,143 | $2,232,590 | 16 | $2,022,667 |
| 2023 | $147,367,958 | $85,226,740 | $46,753,854 | $892,670 | 30 | $1,862,963 |
| 2022 | $104,778,549 | $51,700,386 | $41,291,789 | $195,010 | 19 | $1,865,885 |
| 2021 | $103,898,772 | $70,195,298 | $38,934,297 | $475,525 | 28 | $8,293,869 |
| 2020 | $76,234,764 | $40,396,829 | $38,480,156 | $160,850 | 14 | $1,253,380 |
| 2019 | $74,948,955 | $37,846,899 | $37,826,320 | $451,626 | 13 | $761,094 |
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated September 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
JFCS’s mission is to provide professional and volunteer services to develop, restore, and maintain the competency of families and individuals of all ages. Its mission statement highlights reaching children, older adults, people who are alienated or dependent, and refugees and immigrants. It also emphasizes preventive, educational, therapeutic, and supportive services, Jewish continuity, intergenerational ties, and community responsibility.
JFCS describes services spanning senior care, children’s and youth programs, counseling, disability services, emigre services, community education, bereavement and spiritual support, and financial assistance. Its Financial Aid Center provides loans and grants to eligible Jewish people in the San Francisco Bay Area for education or vocational training, professional and business development, and children’s Jewish camp or Israel programs. These are services for individuals, not grants to outside organizations.
Grantmaking
In filing year 2025, JFCS reported 20 grants totaling $423,550. Grants ranged from $6,000 to $57,250, with a median of $11,500. The largest listed grants included $57,250 to the American National Red Cross, $50,000 each to Americans for Ben-Gurion University, Joseph Weingarten Chabad Jewish Center, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and $31,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California. Each of those grants was designated for program support.
Other 2025 recipients included Planned Parenthood Federation of America ($20,200), PEF Israel Endowment Funds ($19,500), MEET International ($12,500), and the International Rescue Committee ($10,500). The grantees describe their own missions as including reproductive and complementary health care (Planned Parenthood), relief and support for health and educational institutions in Israel (PEF Israel Endowment Funds), empowering Palestinian and Israeli leaders to pursue positive political and social impact (MEET International), and humanitarian response for people affected by conflict and disaster (International Rescue Committee).
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
The 2025 filing lists David Kremer as president; Kerri Lehmann, Lydia Shorenstein, Jacqueline Neuwirth Swire, and Alex Varum as vice presidents; David Kiachko as treasurer; Steven Feinberg as vice treasurer; and Alex Ingersoll as secretary. It also lists Valli Benesch and David Dossetter as directors.
Jewish Family and Children's Services is led by Anita Friedman, Executive Director on every filing since 2019; 9 of 37 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Anita Friedman
Executive Director
On filings since 2019
45 hrs/week
$463K (2019) → $772K (2025)
David Kremer
President
Director → Vice President, 2020
Vice President → President, 2024
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Barbara A. Farber
Director of Development & Perm Endowment
Director of Development & Perm. Endow → Director of Development, 2023
Director of Development → Director of Development & Perm Endowment, 2024
On filings since 2019
45 hrs/week
$214K (2019) → $238K (2025)
Bruce D. Feldstein
Director of Chaplaincy Service
Director of Chaplancy Service → Director of Chaplancy Serv, 2021
Director of Chaplancy Serv → Director of Chaplaincy Service, 2023
On filings since 2020
45 hrs/week
$183K (2020) → $201K (2025)
Ruth Lamm
Director Seniors at Home
New on the 2025 filing
45 hrs/week
$210K (2025)
David Dossetter
Director
Director → Vice President, 2022
Vice President → Director, 2025
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Doug Winthrop
Director
Treasurer → President, 2022
President → Director, 2024
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Luba Troyanovsky
Director
Vice President → President, 2020
President → Director, 2022
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Michael Rolnick
Director
Director → Vice President, 2023
Vice President → Director, 2025
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Garry Rayant DDS
Director
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kathy Fields MD
Director
On filings since 2021
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Lisa Stone Pritzker
Director
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Robert Kaufman
Director
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Scott Haber
Director
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Valli Benesch
Director
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jeff Hyman
Director
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Elizabeth Ross
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ilysa Goldblatt Psyd
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jeffrey Wartell
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kira Makagon
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ron Zeff
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Betsy Zeger
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Cathy Manshel
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Debra Schoenberg
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Lida Soofer
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Nancy G. Masters
Associate Executive Director
Associate Executive Director → Associate Executive Diretor, 2024
Associate Executive Diretor → Associate Executive Director, 2025
On filings since 2019
45 hrs/week
$232K (2019) → $256K (2025)
Jonathan F. Zimman
Chief Financial Officer
CFO → Chief Financial Officer, 2021
On filings since 2020
45 hrs/week
$175K (2021) → $274K (2025)
Catherine M. Flannery
Neurologist
On filings since 2022
45 hrs/week
$181K (2022) → $193K (2025)
David Kohn
Chief Information Officer
New on the 2025 filing
45 hrs/week
$241K (2025)
Sarita Patel
Child Psychiatrist
New on the 2025 filing
45 hrs/week
$217K (2025)
Alex Ingersoll
Secretary
Director → Secretary, 2022
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Alex Varum
Vice President
Director → Vice President, 2024
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
David Kiachko
Treasurer
Director → Treasurer, 2022
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jacqueline Neuwirth Swire
Vice President
Director → Vice President, 2024
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kerri Lehmann
Vice President
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Lydia Shorenstein
Vice President
Director → Vice President, 2024
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Steven Feinberg
Vice Treasurer
Director → Vice Treasurer, 2022
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (33)
- Former: April P. Echavarria-Bates (2019–2024) — Senior Hr Director
- Former: Deborah Stadtner (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Laura Robbin (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Natacha Kolb (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Oded Hermoni (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Robert Blum (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Sandra Shmunis (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Stacy A. Rackusin (2020–2024) — Deputy Director of Development
- Former: Mitch Waxman (2022–2024) — Director
- Former: Juliana G. Koffman (2024) — Director Senior at Home
- Former: Carl Grunfeld MD (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Kevin G. Chow (2021–2023) — Controller
- Former: Andy Hess (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Robert Rosner (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Zhenya Friedman (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Ran Malool (2023) — Director of Facilities & Operations
- Former: Marci Dollinger (2019–2022) — Vice President
- Former: Deborah Hoffman (2019–2021) — Secretary
- Former: Jan Maisel MD (2019–2021) — Vice President
- Former: John F. Sampson (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Marina Tikhman (2019–2021) — Vice Treasurer
- Former: Mark Menell (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Robert Tandler (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Scott Kay (2019–2021) — Vice President
- Former: James Shapiro (2021) — Director
- Former: Jim Shapiro (2019–2020) — Director & Past President
- Former: Laura L. Jamieson (2019–2020) — CFO
- Former: Alissa Steiner Worton Hunt (2020) — Deputy Director of Development
- Former: Kathy Fields-Rayant (2020) — Director
- Former: Beth Hilary Berkowitz (2019) — Clinical Director
- Former: Bonnie Lasky (2019) — Director
- Former: Gregory Murphy (2019) — Director of Operations
- Former: Zoe Schwartz (2019) — Secretary
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $772K, to Dr Anita Friedman (Executive Director). 9 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Jewish Family and Children's Services
How much does Jewish Family and Children's Services give each year?
Jewish Family and Children's Services gave $424K across 20 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $2.2M across 16 grants.
What is Jewish Family and Children's Services's typical grant size?
Jewish Family and Children's Services's median grant in 2025 was $11,500, and its average grant was $21,178, across 20 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Organizations receiving their first grant from Jewish Family and Children's Services that year got $22K on average.
Where does Jewish Family and Children's Services give grants?
Jewish Family and Children's Services's top state is California, with 41% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990. The next largest states were District of Columbia (27%) and New York (26%). The most frequent recipient cities were San Francisco, CA (6 grants), New York, NY (4 grants) and Washington, DC (3 grants).
Does Jewish Family and Children's Services give general operating support?
Not in 2025: none of the 20 grants with a stated purpose on Jewish Family and Children's Services's 2025 IRS Form 990 were described as general or operating support. Recurring purposes include "Program Support" (20 grants).
Who are Jewish Family and Children's Services's largest grantees?
Jewish Family and Children's Services's largest 2025 grantees include American National Red Cross ($57,250), Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc ($50,000) and Joseph Weingarten Chabad Jewish Center ($50,000), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. Together they received 37% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is Jewish Family and Children's Services?
Jewish Family and Children's Services reported $254.8M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $82.4M.
What does Jewish Family and Children's Services fund?
JFCS’s mission is to provide professional and volunteer services to develop, restore, and maintain the competency of families and individuals of all ages. Its mission statement highlights reaching children, older adults, people who are alienated or dependent, and refugees and immigrants. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Jewish Family and Children's Services?
Jewish Family and Children's Services has no public application process in the sources Grantable reviewed. Check jfcs.org for current guidelines, or contact the foundation directly before submitting a request.
What is Jewish Family and Children's Services's EIN?
Jewish Family and Children's Services's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 94-1156528. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated September 2026.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS May 14, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS May 16, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS June 27, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS May 13, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS May 14, 2025)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS May 19, 2020)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 12, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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