Sitchin Foundation
The Sitchin Foundation (EIN: 26-0814762) is a grant making foundation which supports a number of Jewish and pro-Israel causes. The organisation was founded by Zecharia Sitchin (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010) a Soviet-born American author of books proposing an extraterrestrial explanation for human origins. Born in Russia Sitchin was raised in Israel and worked there as a journalist until moving to the United States in 1952.[1]
The Sitchin Foundation is a major donor to the US based Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, the US body that sends funds to the Israeli Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers. Between 2002-2012 the foundation donated $3,031,800 to the FIDF.[2]
Foundation Grantees
Organisations supported by the Sitchin Foundation include:
Brandeis University, Disabled American Veterans, Friends of Israeli Disabled Veterans, Friends of the Arava Institute, The David Project, Educate Tomorrow, Hadassah, United Jewish Appeal, United Service Organizations, US Holocaust Memorial Foundation, and the World Jewish Congress.
People
Directors (circa 2013)
Salo Aizenberg (Director and Secretary) | Arthur Feldman (Director and Treasurer) | Amnon Sitchin (Director and Vice President) | Janet Sitchin (Director and Assistant Treasurer)
Contact
- Address Circa 2013:
- 31 Bloomingdale Drive
- Scarsdale, NY
- 10583
- Phone: (917) 363-4919
Notes
- ↑ Corey Kilgannon, 'Origin of the Species, From an Alien View', New York Times, 8 January 2010, accessed 9 March 2015
- ↑ Data compiled from filings of Form 990s 2002 - 2013.
