Impact Statistics

pledged by Michael and Susan Dell on GivingTuesday 2025 to put $250 into the Trump Account of up to 25 million American children aged ten and under, in postcodes where the median income is below $150,000 — on top of the $1,000 the Treasury deposits for every child born from 2025 to 2028. They describe it as the largest single private commitment ever made to American children.

CNN Business and CNBC, 2 December 2025 · Heritage Florida Jewish News, 10 July 2026

of America's most generous givers in 2022 had Jewish backgrounds. The twenty-five gave $27 billion that year and $196 billion over their lifetimes.

Forbes, America's Most Generous Givers · The Times of Israel, 26 January 2023

of the Philanthropy 50 — the largest American donors of 2024, who gave $16.2 billion between them. Michael Bloomberg led the list with $3.7 billion.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Philanthropy 50 (2024)

given by Jewish donors in 1,017 separate gifts of a million dollars or more — 16% of all the megagift dollars given in the United States.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

of American Jewish households gave to charity, against 63% of households of other faiths or none.

Connected to Give — National Study of American Jewish Giving (2013)

given per year by the average Jewish household, against $1,749 for Protestant households and $1,142 for Catholic ones.

Connected to Give (2013)

of Broadway musicals have a Jewish writer or composer — 'Try 97%', says Michael Kantor, director of the Peabody-winning PBS film Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy (2013), on the Being Jewish with Jonah Platt podcast. The film documents that for half a century the form's songs were written almost exclusively by Jewish Americans — Cole Porter the famous exception.

Being Jewish with Jonah Platt (official clip) · PBS Great Performances · Peabody Awards

major studios of Hollywood's Golden Age — Universal, Paramount, Fox, MGM, Warner Bros. and Columbia — were founded by Jewish immigrants from Europe or their sons: Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, William Fox, Louis B. Mayer, the Warner brothers, Harry and Jack Cohn. The historian Neal Gabler told the story in An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (1988).

Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own (1988) · Wikipedia

creators of the American superhero are counted in this directory — Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, Captain America by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the Marvel universe of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby: the comic book was built above all by young Jewish New Yorkers, as PBS's Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle (2013) — by the same Michael Kantor — recounts.

PBS, Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle (2013) · ThankJews directory, Superhero Creators

houses that wrote the history of the American record were founded by Jews: Blue Note (1939, jazz) by the Berlin refugees Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff; Chess Records (1950, Chicago blues) by Leonard and Phil Chess, Polish-born immigrants; Philles (1961) by producer Phil Spector, inventor of the 'Wall of Sound'; Asylum (1971) then Geffen Records (1980) by David Geffen, who signed Nirvana and Guns N' Roses.

Wikipedia — Blue Note Records · Chess Records · Philles Records · Geffen Records