Resourcing JVP’s Organizing

JVP is proud to be a grassroots membership organization, funded by members who support our shared vision of a free Palestine and a world that guarantees safety and liberation for all. We are building and organizing a massive, grassroots, multiracial and intergenerational base of U.S. Jews. We organize this base to counter the specific role that Jewish Zionist organizations play in upholding the U.S.-Israel alliance and upend the blatant lie that it is “Jewish safety” rather than U.S. imperial and financial interests that drive our government’s complicity in arming and funding Israel’s genocide, apartheid, and occupation. Playing this role is the foundation of JVP’s work.

Accordingly, contributions to JVP are used to strengthen and build grassroots organizing -- from mass actions that build public pressure against the genocide, to divestment campaigns that change the bottom line for corporate war profiteers, to in-person member gatherings that deepen collective leadership and strategy, to staff who allow us to operate at the greatest possible scale in our contributions to the movement for Palestinian liberation.

We think it’s essential and possible to fund many different types of movement-building as well as survival work in these profoundly difficult and dire times, and actively encourage all JVP members and donors to give as much as possible to trusted direct aid for Palestinians. Here are a few places to give right now to Gaza:

JVP’s work, in turn, is focused on our specific role as a US-based Jewish organization committed to upending the financial, cultural, and political relationships that tie the U.S. and Israel’s ongoing atrocities.

Facts about JVP’s resources

Funding and membership

  • As of June 2025, JVP is funded almost entirely by individuals, with an average donation of $49. Being funded primarily by our members allows JVP to maintain independence and take bold stances in line with our organizational mission.
  • As a result of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, millions of people around the globe became aware of and joined movements for Palestinian liberation for the first time. This included tremendous growth for JVP, including a massive increase in new dues-paying members committed to advancing JVP’s mission.
  • In fiscal year 2024, 96% of JVP’s 31,000 individual donors – who are our members – gave under $500, and 68% were first-time donors. This grassroots support, which comes primarily from U.S. Jews, has built JVP into the world’s largest Jewish organization standing in solidarity with Palestine.

 

Budget and finances

  • From fiscal year 2021 to 2024, JVP’s operating budgets ranged from $2.5 million to $5.2 million. Financial documents for each year are publicly available.
  • In fiscal year 2024 (ending June 2024), 31,000 members contributed to JVP for a total income of $11 million. This was unprecedented for JVP.
  • The bulk of those funds have since been spent over the past year. JVP worked diligently to steward resources into our most powerful mobilizing to stop the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians, while also investing in long-term power building and leadership development, so that the thousands of new members in over one hundred cities could be absorbed into the long-term work of base building, community education, and BDS campaigning focused on Palestinian rights and liberation.
  • JVP has a reserve policy that aims to maintain at least 4-6 months of operating expenses -a widely recognized best practice among organizations - which helps to ensure we can maintain our work uninterrupted, even if we experience unforeseen shortfalls in grassroots fundraising or major emergencies. In fiscal year 2024, we ended the year with an unprecedented surplus of funds, which has been allocated to educational, community, and proactive organizing for Palestine, as well as legal defense work for JVP and the movement. We currently maintain an operating reserve on the low end of our policy.

 

The cost of repression

Since 2023, repressive attacks on JVP’s organizing for Palestinian freedom have escalated in major ways. These have included a host of lawsuits brought by various Trump-aligned law firms, a David Abrams’ initiated DOJ investigation, and inclusion in the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther. In response, we have had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, always prioritizing full legal compliance, the protection of our organizational mission, and the movement as a whole. We refuse to be distracted, and see every lawsuit, threat, and false accusation as an opportunity to keep the focus on Palestine, and to advance our work for Palestinian freedom.

 

Opposition resources

Anti-Palestinian organizations claiming to speak for Jews means that JVP has a responsibility to be an effective counterweight to groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL’s FY24 budget was $130 million, and they raised $162 million that same year. For JVP to be able to effectively counter such groups, it takes significant resources.

 

The scale of JVP’s organizing

JVP’s resources power our ability to keep fighting the genocide and building public understanding towards Palestinian and collective liberation. Our most recent annual report details some of our impact. JVP counts over 100 chapters in cities and campuses across the country, led by volunteer members and supported by staff; those chapters plan actions, build coalitions, organize divestment campaigns, block repressive legislation, and grow the movement for the long haul. In 2023 and 2024, JVP organized more than 1000 actions, in what amounted to the largest demonstrations of Jewish solidarity with Palestine in U.S. history. In addition to on-the-ground mobilizing events all over the U.S., we reach over 2 million people on social media with educational posts, and we have a powerful digital organizing program, driving hundreds of thousands of calls and emails to decision-makers including university administrations, editors, and others in positions of power. JVP organizers have also held a virtual Power Half-Hour for Gaza every weekday for the last 2 years, providing a space for people from across the world to gather, gain political grounding, and take over 1,000,000 digital actions together to strategically pressure campaign targets.

 

 

 

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