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The [[Jacques Asseoff Charitable Trust]] (EIN: 13-6817770) is a grant making foundation which supports a number of Jewish and pro-Israel causes. 

Although little information regarding the trust is available a [[Jacques Asseoff]] worked in the Bulgarian Supreme Economic Council and the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce in the 1940s. In the late 40s Asseoff was in contact with the forerunner of the [[CIA]], the [[Office of Strategic Services]].<ref name ="Asseoff OSS">Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Archives [http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/pdfs/declass-psf-c.pdf Memorandum for the President]. Accessed 9 March 2015.</ref>

The trust was a major donor to the [[Friends of the Israel Defense Forces]]. Between 2002 - 2007 the foundation donated $397,439 to the FIDF.<ref>Data compiled from filings of Form 990s 2002 - 2013.</ref>

No form 990s have been filed by the organisation since 2008 and donations also ceased in that year. The foundation is presumably defunct but appears to have been superseded by the '[[Jacques Asseoff Estate]]'. The estate was listed by the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]] as a member of the Ben Gurion International Leadership Council (organisations that donated $50,000 and over to the Jewish Agency).<ref name ="Asseoff Jewish Agency">Jewish Agency for Israel Website [http://www.jewishagency.org/sites/default/files/Friends%20and%20Supporters.pdf Friends and Supporters]. Accessed 9 March 2015.</ref> The estate was also thanked in the 2008 report of the Jewish Agency.<ref name ="Asseoff Jewish Agency 2008 report">slideshare.net [http://www.slideshare.net/JewishAgency/2008-jewish-agency-annual-report 2008 Jewish Agency Annual Report]. Accessed 9 March 2015.</ref> In 2003 the estate was listed as a recipient of the inaugural Israel Education Fund Ben Gurion Leadership award by the [[United Jewish Communities]].<ref name ="Asseoff UJC">tycherstein.com [http://www.tycherstein.com/osgweb/FOCUS7.pdf FOCUS Special Edition]. Accessed 9 March 2015.</ref>

==Foundation Grantees== 

Organisations supported by the [[Jacques Asseoff Charitable Trust]] include:

The [[American Committe for the Weitzmann Institute]], American Red Cross, [[Friends of the Israel Defense Forces]], [[United Jewish Appeal]], and [[United Jewish Communities]].

==People== 
===Directors (circa 2008) ===

[[Harry Asseoff]] (Trustee) | [[Ernest Hirsch]] (Trustee) | [[Isaac Calev]] (Trustee)

===Contact===

:Address Circa 2008:

:C/O Arthur Muhlstock
:10 East 40th Street
:New York, NY
:10016

:Phone: ( 212 ) 972-9600

==Notes==

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