Grantee Organizations by Country
In 25+ years, the Hadassah Foundation’s grantmaking has built a vibrant network of feminist organizations in Israel and the U.S. Below, view current and past grant recipients by country.
Current Israeli Grantees
Funded initiatives in Israel serve Jews and non-Jews.
5050 Initiative of Tzedek Centers
Grant Cycle: 2025-2028
The 5050 Initiative, housed within Tzedek Centers, presses Israel’s political parties to commit to forming candidate lists that are gender-balanced, with women equally represented at all levels. Tzedek Centers is an organization dedicated to strengthening democracy, fostering civic engagement, and advancing justice.
Adva Center
Grant Cycle: 2025-2028
Adva Center is a think tank that focuses on innovative research on social inequalities with a special emphasis on gender and infrastructure support for women’s and feminist organizations, policy advocacy at governmental and municipal levels, public education, and community engagement. The Hadassah Foundation grant supports Adva’s gender-related work.
Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI)
Grant Cycle: 2024-2027
ARCCI is the national umbrella organization for Israel’s rape crisis centers. It advocates for laws, amendments, rights, services, and policies to benefit survivors of sexual violence. Its grant is underwritten by the Andrea Silagi Fund for Education, Advocacy, and Outreach.
Dinah Project
Grant Cycle: 2026-2027
The Dinah Project is a legal initiative dedicated to exposing, monitoring, and advancing criminal accountability for sexual violence perpetrated against women during the October 7, 2023, attack and the subsequent period of captivity. Housed within Bar-Ilan University, Dinah operates at the intersection of law, diplomacy, and civil society, in order to provide an effective response to crimes whose severity and scale have often been obscured or silenced for political, cultural, or evidentiary reasons. The project seeks to draw on its research findings as a case study for addressing similar crimes of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) worldwide.
Eden Association
Grant Cycle: 2024-2027
Based in the Gaza Envelope region of Israel, the Eden Association strives to achieve gender equality by initiating, launching and delivering programs, and executing projects for women of all ages. The association specializes in complex post-trauma therapy, in creating trauma-oriented spaces and in providing support to individuals undergoing personal change. Its grant is underwritten by the Andrea Silagi Fund for Education, Advocacy, and Outreach.
Current U.S. Grantees
Funded organizations in the United States must have a portion of their programming directed to the Jewish community.
Fuente Latina
Grant Cycle: 2024-2027
A nonprofit and nonpartisan media organization, Fuente Latina engages and educates non-Jewish Hispanics worldwide about the Jewish world and Israel through mainstream Spanish-language legacy news (TV, radio, print) and digital/social media.
I Was Supposed to Have a Baby
Grant Cycle: 2025-2026
A U.S.-based organization, I Was Supposed to Have a Baby provides hope, community, and vital information to Jewish individuals and families who are navigating fertility challenges. The organization is a welcoming space that fosters connections through social media, support groups, podcasts, virtual events, sensitivity training, and countless educational resources. As a comprehensive umbrella organization, it acts as a central hub for individuals by addressing the unique aspects of infertility, loss, adoption, surrogacy, third-party reproduction, and countless other obstacles.
Jewish Women International (JWI)
Grant Cycle: 2022-2027
Based in the U.S., JWI works to empower women and girls – of every race, culture, ability, gender identity, and sexual orientation – by ensuring and protecting their safety, building access to long-term economic security, and lifting and mentoring women leaders.
Jewtina y Co.
Grant Cycle: 2025-2028
Jewtina y Co is the only organization in North America focused on serving the needs of the approximately 400,000 Latin Jews in the region. It addresses the unique challenges experienced by those in their communities, and creates spaces where peoples’ multifaceted identities are celebrated, affirmed, and integrated into the larger Jewish ecosystem. Its grant supports “Voces en Vivo: Not Your Mama’s Jewtinidad,” a multi-city storytelling and performance initiative that will uplift the voices and lived experiences of Latin-Jewish women and nonbinary individuals throughout the U.S.
jGirls+ Magazine
Grant Cycle: 2024-2027
jGirls+ Magazine brings together an online community of self-identifying Jewish girls, young women, and nonbinary teens ages 13-19 across all backgrounds. Its programs enable teens to share their voices with the world and each other, provide space to hone their communication skills, and experiences to explore identities, talk across differences, and engage with a wide circle of peers on their own terms. In 2025 jGirls+ became a program of Moving Traditions. Its grant is underwritten by the Jacquie Bayley Fund for Leadership, Opportunity, and Sisterhood
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Past Visionary Partners
Past Core Grants
Gender Equity in Hiring Project
Granted in 2023
The Gender Equity in Hiring Project challenges gender bias in hiring and employment processes in North American Jewish organizational life, to help women rise into positions of leadership. It equips Jewish organizations with knowledge and support as they develop the mindset, skills, and strategies necessary to support the Jewish community as they advocate for and experiment with organizational change and culture shifts.
Past Spark Grants
ASLI: Israel White Ribbon Organization
Granted in 2023
ASLI: Israel White Ribbon Organization works to engage men and boys in the effort to eliminate violence towards women in both public and private spheres. ASLI is the only men-led and men-oriented organization in Israel working to prevent violence against women.
Kamochah
Granted in 2023
Based in the United States, Kamochah aims to normalize the presence and experiences of Black Orthodox Jews in all sectors of Jewish communal life, including camps, schools, and synagogues. In addition, it celebrates the richness of Black Jews’ racial heritage while holding fast to Torah observance.
The Friendship League of Culture and Sports
Granted in 2023
The Friendship League of Culture and Sports empowers women and girls from diverse cultural, ethnic and religious communities in Israel by engaging them in the highly participatory game of catchball. (This grant is underwritten by the Julie Morris Ner Tamid Fund, which was established in 2023 in memory of past board chair Julie Morris.)
COVID Response Grants
2020-2021
PHASE 1:
With a dramatic increase in calls to Israel’s domestic abuse hotlines since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the Hadassah Foundation quickly launched a COVID-19 Response Fund. The selected grant recipients were:
Association of Rape Crisis Centers: The convener of Israel’s rape crisis centers that advocates on behalf of policies that promote women’s safety and support survivors of gender-based violence.
Israel Women’s Network: An organization focused on women’s equality that is lobbying the new Knesset and national government administration to implement needed domestic violence reforms.
Kayan: A feminist movement that advances the status and protects the rights of Arab women in Israel, is translating important domestic violence information into Arabic, expanding their culturally responsive helpline, and advising local Arab-women leaders on the ways to respond to COVID-19 and the domestic violence crisis.
PHASE 2:
Jewish Women’s Collective Response Fund
The Jewish Women’s Collective Response Fund, convened and facilitated by The Hadassah Foundation, was comprised of five women’s funds – Greater Miami Jewish Federation Women’s Amutot Initiative, Israel Lions of Judah, Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta, and The Hadassah Foundation. The Collective Response Fund was created to provide sorely needed financial resources during this pandemic to Israeli nonprofit organizations that support survivors of domestic violence.
Tahel: The Crisis Center for Religious Women and Children: With 85 percent of its clientele coming from the Haredi population, Tahel provides emotional support, advice, and referrals for women and children in times of crisis.
Women’s Spirit: Providing tools, knowledge, and support for the economic independence and personal development of women survivors of violence.
MASLAN: The Negev’s Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Support Center: One of nine crisis centers in Israel, offers emergency services and counseling for people located throughout the Negev region.
Past Israel Grantees
Year of most recent grant is listed in parentheses.
A Step Forward (2007)
Achoti (2008)
Adva Center (2022)
AJEEC-NISPED (2020)
Al Zahraa Organization for Women (2001)
ANU (2018)
ASLI Israel White Ribbon (2024)
Beit Ruth (2023)
Center for Jewish Arab Economic Development (2012)
Center for Women’s Justice (2021)
Citizens’ Accord Forum Between Jews and Arabs (2008)
Counseling Center for Women (2007)
Economic Empowerment for Women (2022)
The Falk Institute (2002)
Friendship League of Culture and Sport (2024)
The Haifa Battered Women’s Hotline (2002)
Hebrew University NCJW Research (2017) Institute for Innovation in Education
Isha L’Isha (2017)
Israel Association for the Advancement of Women’s Health (2003)
Israel Religious Action Center (2007)
IT Works (2018)
Jasmine (2020)
Jerusalem Intercultural Center (2015)
Kav LaOved—Worker’s Hotline (2017)
Kayan (2020)
Kol Ha-Isha (2008)
Koret Israel Economic Development Funds (2007)
Latet (2016)
Machshava Tova (2017)
Mahut Center
Mavoi Satum (2002)
Merchavim (2022)
Microfy (2018)
Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development (2020)
Nivcharot (2020)
Olim Beyahad (2014)
PresenTense (2017)
Project Kesher Israel (2022)
Rabbis for Human Rights (2013)
Shatil—New Israel Fund (2018)
SHIN (2019)
Sidreh (2015)
Supportive Community (2013)
The Taub Center (2018)
Tel Aviv University Law School (2007)
Theatre Company Jerusalem (2002)
Tishreen (2018)
The Tmura Center (2018)
Turning the Tables (2018)
Van Leer Institute, The Center for the Advancement of Women in the Public Sphere (2015)
Women Against Violence (2014)
Women of the Wall (2002)
Workers’ Advice Center—Ma’an (2017)
Yedid (2018)
Yozmot Atid (2021)
Past United States Grantees
Year of most recent grant is listed in parentheses.
AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps (2015)
Challah for Hunger (2017)
District of Columbia JCC (2002)
Edith and Carl Marks JCH of Bensonhurst (2018)
F.E.G.S. Long Island Division (2005)
Hazon (2011)
Hebrew Free Loan Society, New York City (2011)
Hillel UCLA (2014)
JCC Chicago (2018)
JCC Manhattan (2003)
Jewish Community Relations Council of NY (2015)
Jewish Family & Life (2002)
Jewish Family Service of San Diego (2016)
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago (2018)
Jewish Free Loan Association, Los Angeles (2011)
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (2013)
Jewish Theological Seminary (2008)
Jewish Women’s Archive (2019)
Keshet (2013)
Kamochah (2024)
Lilith Magazine (2018)
Lookstein Virtual Jewish Academy (2018)
Mayyim Hayyim (2008)
McLean Hospital (2008)
Nishmah (2017)
Ohio State University Hillel (2001)
Reclaiming Judaism (2002)
Shalom Bayit (2013)
Shalom Hartman Institute of North America (2016)
Shalom Task Force (2021)
Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale (2002)
St. Louis JCC/Nishmah (2017)
UCLA Hillel (2014)
Union for Reform Judaism (2006)
Women’s Sports Foundation (2007)