Sholom Foundation
Sholom Foundation's sole mission is to raise sufficient endowment and annual funds to generate financial support for sholom services and facilities; and, to promote excellence in care to those served by sholom for generations to come.
Sholom Foundation at a glance
In short: Sholom Foundation gave $2.8M across 4 grants in 2025 (avg $696K), mostly in Minnesota. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $2,785,942
- +45.5% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 4
- +0.0% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $696,486
- +45.5% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $323,917
- Total assets
- $46,844,110
- +5.6% vs 2024
- Primary geography
- Minnesota (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
Who Sholom Foundation funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 4 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Sholom Community Alliance ($2.1M). Together the top 4 received $2.8M.
Grant Size Distribution
20 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 5 grants of 20 (25%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 4 itemized grants.
States
Cities
How Sholom Foundation gives
- Giving held roughly steady from 2022 to 2025 (+6%). Method
From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $1.0M (2019) to $2.8M (2025). In 2025 it made 4 grants totaling $2.8M.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Sholom Community Alliance St Louis Park, MN | Enhance Services Provided at Respective Facility | $2,132,166 |
| Sholom Home East Inc St. Paul, MN | Enhance Services Provided at Respective Facility | $529,369 |
| Sholom Home West Inc St Louis Park, MN | Enhance Services Provided at Respective Facility | $118,465 |
| Sholom Community Alliance Home Health Care St Louis Park, MN | Enhance Services Provided at Respective Facility | $5,942 |
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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 | $46,844,110 | $5,691,045 | $4,137,056 | $2,785,942 | 4 | $4,296,521 |
| 2024 | $44,346,233 | $3,487,551 | $3,280,027 | $1,914,780 | 4 | $1,377,329 |
| 2023 | $38,083,021 | $4,241,686 | $3,240,652 | $2,535,227 | 4 | $1,310,631 |
| 2022 | $33,819,522 | $1,855,169 | $3,493,887 | $2,638,187 | 4 | $1,150,472 |
| 2021 | $42,417,925 | $5,225,260 | $1,970,275 | $1,093,635 | 4 | $3,197,279 |
| 2020 | $35,267,926 | $3,467,713 | $2,164,006 | $1,101,331 | 4 | $1,242,004 |
| 2019 | $32,957,756 | $3,455,316 | $2,424,841 | $1,010,398 | 4 | $1,229,743 |
About Sholom Foundation
Based on IRS filings
Sholom Foundation is a public charity focused on Human Services, based in St Louis Park, MN. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $46.8M in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 4 grants totaling $2.8M. Net investment income was $4.3M.
Focus Areas
Leadership & Key People
Officers and directors from IRS filings
Sholom Foundation is led by Joel Mandel, Executive Director on every filing since 2019; 2 of 34 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Joel Mandel
Executive Director
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$197K (2019) → $219K (2025)
Lisa Furman
President
Director → Treasurer, 2022
Treasurer → President, 2024
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Noah Gerding
Director of Development
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$104K (2024) → $110K (2025)
Allen Freeman
Director
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jay D. Goldberg
Director
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Lloyd Stern
Director
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Mark Freeman
Director
President → Director, 2020
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Michael Saxon
Director
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Robert I. Karon
Director
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Robert J. Hartman
Director
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Sheryl Rutzick
Director
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Steven H. Gottlieb
Director
Secretary → President, 2020
President → Director, 2022
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Thomas Sherman
Director
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
David Nirenstein
Director
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jeff Getzkin
Director
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Michael J. Blum
Director
Treasurer → President, 2022
President → Director, 2024
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Lisa Lerman
Director
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Matt Guttman
Director
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Steven C. Schachtman
Director
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Charles Selcer
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Cynthia Shapiro
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Morton A. Naiman
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Phillip M. Jaffe
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Stanford Baratz
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Renee Lampert
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Ann Miller
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Benjie Kaplan
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Diana Cohen
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Sharon Lazarus
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Tammi Lazarus
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Debra A. Goldenberg
Vice President
Director → Vice President, 2024
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Michael Schechter
Treasurer
Director → Treasurer, 2025
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jaye Snyder
Secretary
Director → Secretary, 2024
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Etta Barry
President Elect
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (39)
- Former: Jonathan R. Gordon (2022–2024) — Director
- Former: Karen S. Gordon (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Melanie Barry (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Susan Feinberg Hughes (2019–2023) — Secretary
- Former: Sonia K. Ungerman (2020–2023) — Director
- Former: Elyse Less (2021–2023) — Director
- Former: Lauren B. Zabezhinsky (2021–2023) — Director
- Former: Daniel Lieberthal (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Deborah Weiss (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Scott Seiler (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: David Gantman (2019–2022) — Vice President
- Former: Steve Brand (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Debbie Spencer (2020–2022) — Director
- Former: Kim Wolson (2020–2022) — Director
- Former: Bradley Birnberg (2022) — Director
- Former: Gabriel Silverberg (2022) — Director
- Former: Brad Birnberg (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Chuck Selcer (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Deb Weiss (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Debbie Goldenberg (2019–2021) — Officer at Large
- Former: Jay Dworksy (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Jon Gordon (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Neil Borenstein (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Cindy Shapiro (2020–2021) — Director
- Former: Dan Lieberthal (2020–2021) — Director
- Former: Mike Schechter (2021) — Director
- Former: Mort Naiman (2021) — Capital Campaign Director
- Former: Phil Jaffe (2021) — Director
- Former: Stan Baratz (2021) — Director
- Former: Joy Leibman (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Neil Moses-Zirkes (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Steve Orloff (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Drew Greenberg (2019) — Director
- Former: Jed Stillman (2019) — Director
- Former: Jerry Rudick (2019) — Director
- Former: Lisa Heilicher (2019) — Director
- Former: Neil Fink (2019) — Director
- Former: Sally Forbes Friedman (2019) — Director
- Former: Steve Klein (2019) — Director
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 $219K, to Joel Mandel (Executive Director). 2 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Sholom Foundation
How much does Sholom Foundation give each year?
Sholom Foundation gave $2.8M across 4 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $1.9M across 4 grants.
What is Sholom Foundation's typical grant size?
Sholom Foundation's median grant in 2025 was $323,917, and its average grant was $696,486, across 4 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990.
Where does Sholom Foundation give grants?
Sholom Foundation gives mostly in Minnesota: 100% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990 went to recipients there. The most frequent recipient cities were St Louis Park, MN (3 grants).
Does Sholom Foundation give general operating support?
Not in 2025: none of the 4 grants with a stated purpose on Sholom Foundation's 2025 IRS Form 990 were described as general or operating support. Recurring purposes include "Enhance Services Provided at Respective Facility" (4 grants).
How large is Sholom Foundation?
Sholom Foundation reported $46.8M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $5.7M.
What is Sholom Foundation?
Sholom Foundation is a public charity focused on Human Services, based in St Louis Park, MN. It holds $46.8M in total assets as of 2025.
What is Sholom Foundation's EIN?
Sholom Foundation's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 36-3411361. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS August 12, 2020)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS August 6, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS August 12, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS August 5, 2025)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS August 14, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS August 2, 2024)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS August 10, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2019–2024
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