Foundation Funds

The Temple Israel Foundation was created in 1969 by several congregants who saw the need to provide for and augment religious life at Temple Israel Columbus. They realized the need to support customs and services not only at that time but also in the future. This endowment supports such perpetual activities as the religious school, general education fund, cemetery memorial fund and the general fund.  

Foundation Endowment*

$4 million

*Fiscal year ending 12/31/24

Temple Israel Operating Budget*

$1.5 million

*Fiscal year ending 06/30/25

Percent Foundation Contributed to Budget

 

9.1%

Temple Israel Funds

Sally & Sidney Blatt Fund

Laura Browar Fund

Campaign Gift Fund

Cemetery Fund

Miriam R Cohen Fund

Sheila D. Erdos Social Action Fund    

Louis & Dorothy Escovitz Adult Education Fund

Bette & Stanton Feerer Family Fund

Herbert & Dorothy Fenburr Fund

Jerome & Bessie Folkman Institute of Jewish Studies    

Joan & Norman Folpe Israel High School Youth Trip Fund

Katherine L. Friedman Religious School Fund    

Garel & Roth Families Fund    

General Fund for Temple Israel 

Frank & Julia Glick Fund for Interfaith Outreach    

Jane F. Goodman Art & Education Fund

Nancy & Louis Roseberry Goorey Fund

Pat & Elliot Grayson Fund    

Allen & Muriel Gundersheimer Temple Israel Music Fund

Hamel & Jeannette Gurwin Children’s Fund    

Elizabeth & Myer Hausman Fund    

Joseph Jacobs Fund    

Raymond & Pauline Kahn Art & Archives  Fund  

Robert & Sue Kaynes Fund

Joel & Phyllis Kingsley Family Fund    

Beatrice & Louis Krakoff Leadership/Development Fund    

Paula & Stuart Levine Music Fund    

Levitin Fund

Sherry Linhart Legacy Garden Fund    

Adam S. Linhart Confirmation Fund    

Loeb Family Fund    

The Longert Family Fund

Albert & Viola Luchs Library Fund    

Mattlin Endowment Fund

Nacht Family Fund at Temple Israel   

George & Trudy Nacht Educational Fund    

Nacht Rainy Day Fund

Leonard Nusbaum Family Endowment Fund

Alexander & Ann Pollack Music Fund    

Milly & George Rosenberger Fund    

Roth Fund

Henry & Joseph Saeman Youth Scholarship Fund

Art & Rose Schatenstein Fund    

Scheiman Family Fund    

Schiff Fund

Herbert & Betty Schiff Fund    

Reva & Sol Shaman Cultural Fund    

Robert N. Shamansky Endowment Fund

Edward Shnider Confirmation Class Trip Fund    

Bevlyn & Ted Simson Fund at Temple Israel

Bevlyn & Theodore Simson Youth Fund

Solomon Fund

Martha & Milton Staub Memorial Fund    

Aureila & Ernest Stern Fund at Temple Israel

Ernest & Aurelia Stern Leadership Development Fund    

Sugarman Family Fund

L & L Incentive Fund

Temple Israel Endowment Fund for Maintenance Preservation

David Aron Weinberg Memorial Fund

Abraham B. & Ruth I. Weinfeld Fund 

Leo Yassenoff Religious School Fund

Youth Fund