Robert Kraft Gaza Pledge & Giving Record

Robert Kraft pledged $2 million on September 17, 2026, matched by Ed Sheeran, for a combined total of $4 million in humanitarian aid. Kraft's statement indicated the funds would go "to aid in the region," while VINnews and other outlets reported the pledge directly as Gaza humanitarian aid. No recipient organization has been named by Kraft or Sheeran as of publication.

How much did Robert Kraft pledge to Gaza?

Robert Kraft pledged $2 million on September 17, 2026, after rapper Macklemore challenged him to match a $1 million donation. Ed Sheeran matched Kraft's pledge with an additional $2 million, bringing the combined total to $4 million, according to a Gillette Stadium statement posted to X.

Kraft's statement described the money as going "to aid in the region." VINnews headlined the pledge directly as Gaza humanitarian aid. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency covered it as part of the broader debate over Gaza relief funding.

Macklemore's $1 million pledge named six recipients: the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, HEAL Palestine, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Anera, Gaza Soup Kitchen, and UNRWA USA. As of publication, Robert Kraft and Ed Sheeran have not named a recipient for their combined $4 million.

Who runs the Kraft Family Foundation?

The Kraft Family Foundation Inc. (EIN 04-6050716) has maintained 501(c)(3) status since February 1953 and is based in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Four family members hold all officer positions: Robert K. Kraft serves as President, Treasurer, and Director. Joshua M. Kraft, Jonathan A. Kraft, and Daniel A. Kraft each serve as Clerk or Assistant Clerk and as Director.

All four family members are listed at one hour per week and $0 compensation, according to the foundation's Form 990-PF for fiscal year 2024, filed November 10, 2025.

How much does the Kraft Family Foundation give away each year?

The Kraft Family Foundation's net assets decreased from $71.2 million at the close of fiscal 2013 to $32.0 million by fiscal 2024, according to the foundation's own IRS filings. Annual charitable disbursements over the same period ranged between $7.3 million and $9.95 million.

In fiscal 2020, the foundation disbursed $7.3 million.
In fiscal 2022, the foundation disbursed $9.95 million.
In fiscal 2023, the foundation disbursed $9.58 million.
In fiscal 2024, the foundation disbursed $8.9 million.

In fiscal 2024, the foundation reported $50 in new contributions received against $13.2 million in total revenue. Ninety-two percent of that revenue came from selling investment assets rather than new gifts into the foundation, per the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer filing data.

The foundation's recent electronically filed returns report each year's grants as a single combined total, listing "See Grant Details Attachment" instead of an itemized schedule. Two independent platforms that parse the same underlying IRS data, Grantmakers.io and philanthropy.org, both show this identical pattern. This represents a general limitation of IRS Form 990 e-file data.

What did Robert Kraft give to Jewish and Israeli causes in 2013?

Robert Kraft's foundation made its largest 2013 gifts to CJP, Boston's Jewish federation, at $1.12 million, and to Brandeis University at $1.1 million, according to a JTA report published November 23, 2015. That report described 2013 as the last year for which grant data was publicly available at the time.

Recipient	Amount
CJP (Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston)	$1.12 million
Brandeis University	$1.1 million
Columbia University	$350,000
Jerusalem Foundation	$93,000
Columbia University Hillel	$50,000
World Jewish Congress (American Section)	$50,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces	$35,000
Temple Emanuel, Newton, Massachusetts	$31,036
American Friends of Beit Hatfutsot	$25,000
America-Israel Friendship League	$25,000
Anti-Defamation League	$25,000
Jewish Vocational Services, Boston	$25,000
Middle East Media Research Institute	$25,000
Foundation for Ethnic Understanding	$25,000
UJA-Federation of New York	$25,000

As of 2013, the Kraft Family Foundation held nearly $88 million in assets. The Kraft family's cumulative giving was reported at more than $100 million, per the Times of Israel report.

What other Israel-related gifts has Robert Kraft made?

Robert Kraft founded the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism with a $20 million gift in 2019. This organization was renamed the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate in 2025, according to the Times of Israel. In 2017, the Kraft family contributed $1 million in seed funding to Our Generation Speaks, a Boston-based fellowship that pairs young Israeli and Palestinian entrepreneurs. This information comes from a Forbes report cited by IBTimes UK and confirmed on the Kraft Group's philanthropy page.

Through the Kraft Group LLC, Robert Kraft has given $3 million to the United Democracy Project, a super PAC affiliated with AIPAC, since its 2022 founding. This includes $1 million in the current election cycle, according to Intercept reporting. That giving runs through Federal Election Commission filings rather than the foundation's Form 990-PF.

The Intercept also reported, citing tax filings dating to 2006, that the Kraft Family Foundation gave several amounts to various organizations. These include $196,000 across seven gifts to Friends of the IDF, $123,000 to Brothers for Life and Friends of Israel Disabled Veterans, $63,500 to CAMERA, and $150,000 to MEMRI between 2008 and 2018. The foundation also gave $50,000 to the Investigative Project on Terrorism between 2011 and 2012. The 2013 JTA-reported gifts of $35,000 to Friends of the IDF and $25,000 to MEMRI in a single year are directionally consistent with the larger multi-year totals The Intercept later reported for the same two organizations.

What is the Genesis Prize connection to Kraft's giving?

The Genesis Prize Foundation named Robert Kraft its 2019 laureate on January 9, 2019. Its announcement stated that "Kraft and his various foundations have donated nearly $500 million to charities." These donations focused on education, healthcare, interfaith understanding, and cultural diversity, according to the Times of Israel.

Kraft declined the $1 million Genesis Prize award money and directed it to initiatives combating antisemitism, the BDS movement, and efforts to delegitimize Israel. At the award ceremony in Jerusalem on June 20, 2019, Kraft announced the $20 million founding gift for the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, according to the Genesis Prize Foundation's press release. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the award in person.

Who serves on the Blue Square Alliance's advisory board?

The Blue Square Alliance Against Hate named its first advisory board on June 24, 2026. The five members are former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, Dentons CEO Kate Barton, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, and Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav, according to Jewish Insider.

Kraft said in a statement that the board would help deepen institutional relationships in the fight against antisemitism. The organization runs a Command Center that tracks more than 500 million social media posts daily to monitor how antisemitism spreads online, according to the Blue Square Alliance's own site. Its inaugural fundraising dinner, the Blue Square Benefit, is scheduled for October 21, 2026 in New York City, honoring Moynihan.

The organization's own history describes its founding as a response to what Kraft called a "rising tide of Jewish hate and all hate in America," which the group says he connected to the lead-up to Nazi Germany in the 1930s, according to the Blue Square Alliance's about page. Its messaging campaign, "Stand Up to Jewish Hate," first aired as an advertisement during NFL broadcasts in October 2022, before the organization's 2025 rename.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, one of the five advisory board members, has a separate philanthropic record that illustrates the scale of the network around the organization Kraft founded. Benioff and his wife Lynne have given more than $350 million to the University of California, San Francisco for two children's hospitals, and announced $150 million in additional gifts to two Hawaii medical centers in 2024, according to the Blue Square Alliance's advisory board page. The Benioffs were ranked the 21st-largest donors in the United States on the Chronicle of Philanthropy's 2026 Philanthropy 50 list. These figures describe a board member's own giving, not Kraft's, and are included here to show the institutional weight behind the organization Kraft founded.

Is Kraft's AIPAC super PAC giving independently confirmed?

Yes. An independent analysis of Federal Election Commission bulk filings covering the 2022 to 2026 election cycles places the Kraft Group among the seven largest private contributors to the United Democracy Project, AIPAC's super PAC, according to VoteLog's investigation of AIPAC's political money.

The same analysis ranks the Kraft Group's $3.0 million behind Jan Koum's $7.0 million, Jonathon Jacobson's $5.6 million, Paul Singer's $5.5 million, and Bernard Marcus's and Haim Saban's $4.0 million each, and ahead of Marc Rowan's $2.5 million. The United Democracy Project has raised $217.8 million since 2022, including $51.5 million transferred directly from AIPAC's own treasury, its single largest funding source.

OpenSecrets separately reports that the United Democracy Project raised $87.2 million during the 2023 to 2024 election cycle alone, according to its PAC profile page. FactCheck.org reported that the super PAC's largest donor as of September 2024 was WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum at $5 million, with Kraft's contributions appearing in the same donor base, according to FactCheck.org's report on United Democracy Project. The Federal Election Commission's own committee page for the group, filed under ID C00799031, confirms its active status and filing history.