Leroy Schecter Foundation
The Leroy Schecter Foundation (EIN: 30-0134495) also known as the Schecter Family Foundation, is a grant making foundation which supports a number of philanthropic causes. Its activities include support for medical research, programmes that provide recreational opportunities for sick children, food programmes for elderly New Yorkers and support for Jewish religious and cultural organisations. [1] The Leroy Schecter Foundation is a major donor to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, the US body that sends funds to the Israeli Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers. Between 2002-2013 the foundation donated $8,011,387 to the FIDF.[2]
People
Directors (circa 2013)
Leroy Schecter (Chairman and Director) | Ottavia McAughlin (Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Director)
Contact
- C/O 55 Passaic Avenue
- Kearny, NJ
- 07032
- Phone: (201) 299-3090
