Grantee Organizations

The Hadassah Foundation leads the movement to revolutionize the role, perception, and impact of all who identify as women and girls in Israel and the American Jewish community.  Our programs and grants elevate and empower women and girls in leadership roles, confront gender-based violence, increase female political representation — and much more. In almost 25 years of grantmaking, we have awarded more than $11 million to over 100 organizations.

Grant Categories

Visionary Partner

Exemplifying our values of building partnerships and embodying trust-based philanthropy, these unrestricted grants of $130,000 paid over five years are for mission-aligned organizations with strong track records as previous grantees.

Israel Women’s Network

Grant Cycle: 2024-2029

Israel Women’s Network (IWN) has been advancing gender equality and women’s rights in Israel for more than 38 years. Alongside its efforts to eradicate gender-based violence and to promote gender equality awareness and education in Israeli society, the IWN promotes gender equality in the workplace, in public spaces, and in government allocations of resources.

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.

Moving Traditions

Grant Cycle: 2023-2028

Moving Traditions emboldens Jewish youth to thrive through the pursuit of personal wellbeing (shleimut), caring relationships (hesed), and a Jewish and feminist vision of equity and justice (tzedek). It combines positive psychology with Jewish values and partners with Jewish institutions across North America to engage Jewish teens, families, and communities.

WePower

Grant Cycle: 2022-2027

A nonpartisan Israeli NGO, WePower helps women to advance to top level decision-making and elected positions, thus propelling social change and leading to a more equal and just civil society.

Core Grants

For leading organizations and programs that promote gender equity in Israel or the U.S., these $80,000 grants are awarded over three years.

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.

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.

Forum Dvorah

Grant Cycle: 2023-2026

Forum Dvorah is the only organization in Israel focusing on gender equality in key decision-making positions in the fields of national security and foreign policy. It manages a network of over 200 leading women in Israel in these fields and supports the next generation of leadership among young women.

Israel Women’s Network

Grant Cycle: 2023-2026

Israel Women’s Network (IWN) has been advancing gender equality and women’s rights in Israel for more than 38 years. Alongside its efforts to eradicate gender-based violence and to promote gender equality awareness and education in Israeli society, the IWN promotes gender equality in the workplace, in public spaces, and in government allocations of resources.

Itach Ma’aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice

Grant Cycle: 2023-2026

Itach Ma’aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice is an Israeli advocacy organization working to advance the status of women in Israeli public and private life. From workplaces to local municipalities to governmental bodies and the home, it is committed to furthering women’s legal rights, socio-economic advancement and representation.

Spark Grants

Awarded to innovative organizations in early stages of development that  are addressing a gap in the field of gender equity, these grants are for $20,000 paid over an 18-month period. 

ASLI: Israel White Ribbon Organization

Grant Cycle: 2023-2025

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

Grant Cycle: 2023-2025

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

Grant Cycle: 2023-2025

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.)

Discretionary Grants

Distributed throughout the year in response to time-sensitive activities and urgent needs these are onetime payments of $5,000. In 2023, these grants  went to Israel-based organizations that immediately expanded their services in response to the many needs caused by the Israel-Hamas war.

Association for Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI)

Granted in 2023

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. Funds supported ARCCI’s efforts to expand the capacity of its hotline and the resources of the crisis centers throughout Israel, initiate a campaign to encourage rape survivors to call the hotline for help, and raise international awareness on the gender-based war crimes committed by Hamas.

Beit Ruth for Young Women and Girls at Risk

Granted in 2023

Beit Ruth is a therapeutic long-term care facility and school for girls that is located on the outskirts of Afula, in northern Israel. Funds helped Beit Ruth heighten security measures and its emergency preparedness protocols and infrastructure.

Institute for Law and Philanthropy at Tel Aviv University

Granted in 2024

The institute conducts research and education on the role of philanthropy in Israel and provides legal guidance in integrating philanthropy into Israeli policies. All its research reports remark on the distinctions that gender plays in all aspects of philanthropy, including individual giving, the philanthropic process utilized by donors, the organizations selected for philanthropic support, and society’s overall perceptions of philanthropy.

Israel Women’s Network

Granted in 2023

Alongside its efforts to eradicate gender-based violence and to promote gender equality awareness and education in Israeli society, Israel Women’s Network promotes gender equality in the workplace, in public spaces, and in government allocations of resources. This discretionary grant helped expand IWN’s hotline that provides women who have lost their jobs or are unable to work due to the war with guidance on accessing government resources and information on their legal rights.

Itach Ma’aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice

Granted in 2023

Itach Ma’aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice is an Israeli advocacy organization working to advance the status of women in Israeli public and private life. This discretionary grant supported Itach Ma’aki’s efforts to co-lead Israel’s only emergency center that is jointly run by Jewish and Arab organizations, and is providing provisions and needed services throughout the south of Israel.

Jewish Women’s Collective Response

This fund, co-created by Hadassah Foundation and Elluminate in 2024 awarded five grants of $25,000 each to support, elevate and empower Israeli women in the aftermath of October 7. Learn more about the fund here.

Adva Center

Adva is a leading Israeli progressive think tank that monitors social and economic developments and their impact on Israel’s diverse populations. Funds support its gender programming, including research, establishing gender budgeting throughout Israel, and courses and lectures.

Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel

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.

Itach Ma’aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice

Itach Ma’aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice is an Israeli advocacy organization working to advance the status of women in Israeli public and private life. From workplaces to local municipalities to governmental bodies and the home, it is committed to furthering women’s legal rights, socio-economic advancement and representation.

Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center

Based at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, the Rackman Center promotes the status and rights of women in matters of family law and works to end gender discrimination and inequality in Israel through advocacy and legislative change.

WePower

A nonpartisan Israeli NGO, WePower helps women to advance to top level decision-making and elected positions, thus propelling social change and leading to a more equal and just civil society.

2023 Israel Emergency Grants

These grants were approved in October 2023 in response to the crisis triggered by Hamas’ October 7 attacks.

Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America

Granted in 2023

Shortly after October 7, the Hadassah Foundation made an emergency gift of $36,000 in support of Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO)’s indispensable services and expertise in healing and saving the lives of Israel’s most severely injured victims.

Jewish Federation of North America (JFNA) Israel Crisis Fund

Granted in 2023

Shortly after October 7, the Hadassah Foundation donated $10,000 to this crisis fund.

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Grantmaking

Our Approach

We support organizations that work through a gender lens and that are creating social change. Learn what that means and about our grantmaking practices. Read more

For Grantseekers

The Hadassah Foundation awards grants in four categories to Israeli and U.S. organizations. Learn about our grants and how to apply. Read more