Featured Grants
Over the course of its history, the Righteous Persons Foundation has awarded hundreds of grants in the areas of arts, culture, education, spirituality, synagogue life, Holocaust awareness, tolerance, and interfaith relations. Representative grants from each of the Foundation's current funding priorities are listed below.
Utilization of the arts, culture, and media to engage a broad audience in exploring what it has meant and can mean to be a Jew today:
- Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking
- Sound Portraits
Engagement of youth and young adults on issues of Jewish identity and community:
Promotion of understanding between Jews and those of other faiths and backgrounds:
Encouragement of Jews to participate in the work of tikkun olam (social justice):
Education about the events of The Holocaust and its lessons for civic responsibility, tolerance, and social action today:
- USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
- I'm Still Here — Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust
While no longer a primary focus, the Righteous Persons Foundation has also supported grants in the following area:
Efforts to strengthen synagogue life and make Jewish spiritual traditions more accessible.
At this time, the Righteous Persons Foundation is also making grants via a Fund for Co-Existence.
For a more comprehensive listing of the Righteous Persons Foundation's grantmaking, please refer to our Grants Archive.
Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking
The National Foundation for Jewish Culture
Established in 1996 with a lead gift from Righteous Persons Foundation, the Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking (housed at the National Foundation for Jewish Culture) has supported just under 60 films and given away over $1.3 million to support the creation of original documentary films and videos that promote thoughtful consideration of Jewish history, culture, identity, and contemporary issues among diverse public audiences. Many of these films have gone on to screen at film festivals around the world and have been broadcast on PBS, HBO, and other networks (with some having had limited theatrical releases). The number of applicants continues to grow, with films being screened and selected by a jury panel of filmmakers, critics, academics, and presenters. Past grantees of the Film Fund include Watermarks, Trembling Before G-d, along with the Academy Award-nominated films Promises and My Architect.
For more information, go to The National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
