JTA contacted more than a dozen of the nonprofits, several of which said they were prohibited from publicly acknowledging Koum’s giving as a condition of their gift. His foundation and all the past grantees have ignored requests for comment from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. It is unknown whether Koum continued to make donations in 2021 and afterward.It got $10.6 million from Koum’s foundation in gifts over that same period and, at the end of May 2022, announced the establishment of an ambulance fleet to evacuate patients throughout Ukraine. Koum’s foundation is also connected with another group involved in relief efforts: the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS.Nearly all the group’s 2019 budget came from Koum. In March 2022, it launched a campaign to provide housing, food, and clothing to refugees from the war. According to Jan Koum’s tax returns for the period from 2019 to 2020, the Koum Family Foundation donated about $17 million to the European Jewish Association.In particular, he finances some humanitarian programs aimed at supporting Ukraine and its migrants in Europe, Jewish Telegraphic Agency writes. Jan Koum, a Ukrainian-born Jew and WhatsApp founder, has quietly donated tens of millions of dollars to help Ukrainians.
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