$140.1M in expenses

A nonprofit organization and united nations NGO (non-governmental organization), jewish national fund (JNF) builds a strong, vibrant future for the land and people of israel through bold initiatives and zionist education. JNF began in 1901 as a dream and vision to reestablish a homeland in israel for jewish people everywhere. Jews the world over collected coins in iconic blue boxes, purchasing land and planting trees until ultimately, their dream of a jewish homeland was a reality. JNF strives to bring an enhanced quality of life to all of israel's residents and translate these advancements to the world beyond. JNF is "greening" the desert with millions of trees, building thousands of parks across israel, creating quality of life opportunities in israel's north and south for new generations of israel's residents to call home, bolstering israel's water supply, helping develop innovative arid agriculture techniques, and educating both young and old about the founding and importance of israel and zionism. In 2024 jewish national fund entered its 123rd year as one of the world's oldest jewish non-profits and is as relevant today as the day it was founded. JNF is synonymous with the blue box and planting trees in israel while its work has evolved into seven major program areas, each with its own major goals and partnerships within israel that help bring to reality the projects that are mainly donor-designated. JNF enhances quality of life by building new communities and bolstering existing ones. JNF's blueprint negev campaign is attracting hundreds of thousands of new residents to the negev desert while its go north campaign focuses on the communities of northern israel. The organization's work in community building includes the be'ER sheva river park, sderot indoor recreation center, central arava medical center, eshkol resilience center, project wadi attir, housing and employment opportunities, the galilee culinary institute by JNF, a food tech hub, and so much more. In 2024, JNF led rebuilding, rehabilitation, and repair efforts in israeli communities devastated by the october 7, 2023, terrorist attacks. Through its "build together"reimagine" initiatives, the organization has worked, and is working, hand-in-hand to provide critical resources such as fire, rescue, and civilian security equipment, bomb shelters, emergency response centers, mental health services, temporary accommodation, and more to the people of israel's north and south. The organization also supported the hostages and missing families' forum and publicly called for the release of every last hostage held by hamas. One day after october 7th, JNF set up call centers in israel to coordinate relief efforts for evacuees, and a command center to plan rebuilding with the affected communities within one week of october 7th JNF evacuated 63,000 israelis and relocated them to safety over 40,000 people volunteered within israel through JNF's affiliate networks, delivering necessities to evacuees and working on farms to bring food to the nation. 2,000 care packages were packed by alexander muss high school in israel students. In addition, thousands of israeli students attended JNF's supported field schools. 19,000 support packages, containing products from small businesses in the north and south, delivered to evacuated families nad soldiers in addition, over 4,000 americans came to israel on JNF volunteer missions to help in the north and south. Collectively, they helped rescue over 500,000 tons of food from farms in the israel envelope and helped repair broken communities. The organization also attracted a record crowd to its annual global conference for israel, with over 3,000 people attending the largest gathering of zionists in the u.s., held in denver, colorado. The four-day event connected new and existing supporters to the organization's work for the land and people of israel and inspired attendees to deepen their support for the jewish people's homeland. JNF is the largest provider of zionist engagement in the u.s. And offers a myriad of ways to connect young americans to israel. Its israel education and advocacy programs take people from birth to the boardroom on their jewish and zionist journies. They start in kindergarten and continue through college life and beyond, engaging, educating, and helping students foster a greater connection and commitment to the land and people of israel. JNF israel continuum programming includes the campus fellowship, caravan for democracy, alternative break, taglit-birthright israel, faculty fellowship program in israel, alexander muss high school in israel, b'nai mitzvah projects, and plant your way to israel. With its alexander muss high school in israel (muss), which, since 1972, has been pioneering the academic and experiential study of israel and jewish history at the high school level, JNF sets the goal of further growing and enhancing jewish continuity and israel connectivity amongst youth by offering semester abroad programs to better enrich each student's knowledge base and better prepare them for college life. To date, over 32,000 students have benefited from an education at muss, and many students have received a fellowship or grant towards their tuition. In 2023, muss launched a second campus in be'ER sheva, reflecting the institution's impressive growth and recognizing JNF's ongoing investment in israel's south. JNF and its partners support many affiliates in israel including but not limited to: green horizons, halutza communities, hashomer hachadash, the arava international center for agriculture training, special in uniform, makom, nefesh b'nefesh, the society for the preservaton of israel's heritage sites, the gush etzion visitor center museum, the lauder employment center, and western galilee now. JNF fundraising efforts have also supported israel's firefighters through the provision of firetrucks and firefighting aperatus, life-saving equipment, and the building of new fire stations. Israel advocacy and education in 2024, JNF continued with plans to create the world zionist village in be'ER sheva with the selection of a leading architecture firm to bring the physical campus to life. The initiative will create a new conversation about israel, about the future of zionist leadership, about the next 50 years and beyond, wherein high school students, college students, post-graduates, teachers, young leaders, and older adults are all part of one new conversation. With the vision of creating this ecosystem on a single campus with programming, shared spaces, accommodations, and harnessing the power of positive israel/jewish conversation, JNF is building this world-class campus in be'ER sheva that will revolutionize zionist and jewish educational engagement for the decades ahead. The initiative represents one of the largest philanthropic capital projects in israel's history. JNF's $100 million boruchin israel education advocacy center experienced continued growth in 2024 with grants awarded to heroes to heroes, alexander muss high school in israel's scholarship program, israel on campus coalition (icc), yavneh on campus, caravan for democracy, sinai temple, students supporting israel, faculty fellowship program in israel, club z, academic engagement network (aen) and others impacting thousands of jews and non-jews across north america. Its focus on israel and zionist education programming is designed to be one of the most powerful new initiatives in the jewish world. The center concentrates its resources on advocating for israel, israel education in the diaspora, and countering the BDS movement, with the goal of strengthening the connection of all americans, now and in the future, to the land and people of israel. The center, administered within JNF, was created as a result of an estate gift of the late john and dora boruchin of california. No previous bequest has ever funded such a bold initiative to promote and develop zionist education of this magnitude. Water solutions JNF has bolstered israel's water economy by developing alternative water sources, saving the economy millions, advancing israeli agriculture, and improving water quality. JNF has built over 250 reservoirs and is continuing to fundraise for additional reservoirs at a cost of $200 million. Raising the amount of recycled water in israel to over 90%, JNF is now focusing on river rehabilitation, education, water purification and research and development. Focus areas include recycled water reservoirs, river rehabilitation, rainwater harvesting program and constructed wetlands. JNF supported water recycling projects continue in the bedouin villages of wadi attir and um batin. Green horizons also has over 64 schools that utilize its rainwater harvesting projects to educate students about water shortages and solutions in israel. Disabilities and special needs as part of its focus on improving quality of life in israel, JNF is dedicated to ensuring that no membe