Massachusetts gives $1.6 million, a third of new security funding round, to in-state Jewish nonprofits

About one-third of $4,965,000 in security funding that Massachusetts gave to 167 nonprofits in the state went to Jewish organizations, including synagogues, according to a JNS analysis.

Of the listed nonprofits, 55 (about 33%) were Jewish, and they received $1,606,876 (about 32%) of the funding, which came from the Commonwealth Nonprofit Security Grant Program and the Commonwealth Nonprofit Security Personnel Grant Program.

In addition to the 55, Brandeis University, which states that it is “animated by a set of values that are rooted in Jewish history and experience,” received $30,000 from th...