Tikvah Fund
The Tikvah Fund is an American politically conservative nonprofit charitable foundation whose stated mission is to promote Jewish thought and ideas.
Activities
As of 2011, the Tikvah Fund held assets worth more than $162 million. That year, it provided a four-year $12.5 million grant to the Shalem Center to form an American-style liberal arts university in Israel, now Shalem College. The fund had supported the Shalem Center for the previous decade as well.The Tikvah Fund has funded several publications, including Commentary, Mosaic and its predecessor Jewish Ideas Daily, the Jewish Review of Books, and Mida. Shalem Center also sponsored neo-conservative magazine Azure and the Fund was behind academic journals Hebraic Political Studies and Toronto Journal of Jewish Thought. A typical article in Mosaic in 2025, by an emeritus professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, said "there is not a scintilla of truth" in claims of apartheid and genocide.
The Fund also organizes the Jewish Leadership Conference, a politically conservative Jewish conference. Invitees in 2022 included Mike Pompeo, who served as Secretary of State under Donald Trump, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer, and Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis. Picketers attended to oppose DeSantis' speech.
It runs a fellowship programme named after Charles Krauthammer which is awarded to aspiring writers, journalists, scholars, and policy analysts'.
In September 2025, the fund was awarded $10.5 million by the National Endowment for the Humanities, allegedly "to combat antisemitism". It was the largest single grant in NEH history.