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